maseymn
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Just wanted to check in, and hoping you are doing a little better. I have some social anxieties, and am quiet and not very outgoing, so I won't lie -- being celiac and living gluten free really compounded those issues for me. I decided to try to learn from situations where I feel uncomfortable, and try to find ways I can cope better with feeling isolated...
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Everything in our society that's social seems to revolve around food. Graduations? Food; Family reunions? Food; Dating? Food. Throw in the mental stress of a pandemic, the difficulty in getting gluten free groceries, and having to cook 100% everything from scratch when home all the time? Not surprising this has been difficult for you. On how to get back...
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I agree with a couple of points above. I'm better when I'm off dairy in addition to gluten, but it's hard so I keep going back and forth on that one. I sometimes have some diarrhea problems while I transition back off of dairy, for some reason. Hidden glutens are big. I had to get rid of my pyrex pans (little pits in the glass can hold gluten), I had to get...
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Please help - at wits end
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Please help - at wits end
maseymn replied to HollyWhispersWildly's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Holly, I figure I went at least 28 years with active celiac before I was diagnosed. Had abdominal pain all the time, tired all the time. I was diagnosed and treated for depression, then thyroid, then sleep apnea, then anemia. It was the anemia that made my doctor test me for celiac (I couldn't absorb even prescription iron). She wanted me to have a biopsy... -
If you don't follow a gluten-free diet -- you'll probably start first noticing problems because of vitamin deficiencies -- your body can't absorb nutrients from your damaged small intestine; you will be more likely to get stomach cancer (the figure I remember seeing was 800x more likely), more likely to get colon cancer and other cancers; because it is an...
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That it's the newest "fad" disease, and most people that think they have it don't really have it. And that a little bit of gluten won't really hurt you; after all, you ate it for years before you were diagnosed.
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Thinking about giving up
maseymn replied to kam00096's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
I was not formally diagnosed. I tested positive for antibodies, and my doctor said if I feel better on a gluten-free diet that was confirmation enough for her. I didn't want to wait. Since then they've wanted to have me do a "challenge" and a small intestine biopsy, but I told the doctor I'm just not that curious. I know what's wrong with me, and a gluten...