JillG

Did the ophthalmologist check for uveitis? If not and if it happens again, please bring that up. My son has had Celiac since 2014 and in 2020 developed uveitis which is also an autoimmune condition. It is serious if not controlled and his vision was permanently damaged because we didn’t know what it was in time. Uveitis can be mild to severe so please a...

Yes. That’s how my son was diagnosed actually. He wasn’t hitting puberty so they checked him for Celiac and he was positive. He was 14 at the time and after 6 mo of a gluten-free diet he still didn’t show signs of starting puberty. So we did a very low does of testosterone shots for 6 mo bc they wanted to see if that would jump start him, and it did. If y...