kraye80

Sorry to hear your having trouble! With me, celiac was a silent disease, and still is when I'm accidentally glutened. It was discovered when my gallbladder went bad and a GI doctor did an endoscopy as part of the testing/diagnosis process. There is now way to know how well you're doing without another small intestine biopsy. Be sure to follow a gluten free lifestyle as best as you can because to celiacs, gluten is truly poison because it leads to other health problems, and can even trigger other autoimmune diseases. In order to not be overwhelmed too much at once, start small, like finding ways for the entire family to be gluten free most of the time for meals at home. Then move on to your skills at 'eating out', then move on to gluten free cosmetics and medicines. Or do it all at once it you can, but I found it to be too overwhelming. I had greater issues with constipation once I went on a low-fat, low-fiber diet for my gastroparesis. What has helped me is 250mg/day of magnesium and acidophilus/probiotics. Both are fairly inexpensive, natural and at your local drug store. I wish you good health!

I was wondering how did you find out you had gastroparesis? What kind of testing?

Thanks for the responses. It's really hard for me because I am a VERY picky eater so I did research on normal foods that are gluten free. It's just my daughter(8 yrs old) and I in the house so it can be tricky to make a meal so that's why I look more for the every day type of foods to make. My poor daughter probably gets sick of eating the same thing over and over again but I make alot of Taco's(since I am a picky eater tacos consist of chips(corn) meat and cheese) I try and stick to some sort of meat and potatoes as often as I can with corn. I make home made mac and cheese and she actually really likes that with the gluten free noodles but it is sooooo expensive making that for both of us. I have tried multiple bread recipes and bought a few different types of bread, lets just say I am giving up on that crap it's so gross. I have found a new love for snickers:-) I eat a salad every day for lunch with deli turkey and cheese with a boiled egg and western dressing(I found that it does not contain gluten) I will go to Taco Johns on Tuesday to grab my daughter some tacos so she still gets occasional fast food. Besides bread and fast food, the hardest part is not being able to eat good pizza. I've tried homemade crust and boughten crust and now Happy Joes and GodFathers pizza (local pizza chains) has it and I'm just not a fan. I just want the good stuff lol!

Regarding magnesium is this is a pill form or only liquid? I do take probiotics and phsyllium husk along with the amitiza!

Hello, I have a few questions. I was diagnosed in January from a blood test and since I was in denial I did more research and found that endoscopy's are the only 100% way to know so I had one done in Feb 2011 and it came back positive. My problem is I have absolutely no Celiac symptoms(maybe the bloating) The reason they checked me is because I went 15 days with no BM and I have Hashimoto's disease so they figured I could have another autoimmune disorder. The doc said she really didn't think I had it but would run the test just to make sure. She called me with the results and couldn't believe the results because I was full blown positive. I decided to go to a stomach doctor and she told me that my celiac disease and my constipation have nothing to do with each other. I have been gluten free for 7 weeks now and after a colonoscopy 3 weeks ago my doc put me on a drug called amitiza for the constipation, for the last 3 weeks I am lucky that I have gotten grape size stools out of me once a day. What is going on?????????? Now since 5 days ago I feel like I have menstrual\gas cramps all over my stomach all day long. I've taken miralax for the last 4 nights, gas x 3 times and still no bm and my stomach pain is still here. My doc just told me to take more miralax because it's probably because I'm backed up. I don't feel like I normally did when constipation. Has anyone had this problem? Also, since I don't have any symptoms of celiac how do I know if I am better or not? (All my vitamins levels are great and always have been) HELP please!!!