Celiac Disease - Severe Allergy to Wheat Gluten

Celiac Disease - Severe Allergy to Wheat Gluten
Causes severe diahrea.

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Celiac Disease has been very hard on me for some time now! I am 56 years old now. I believe it started bothering me somewhere between age 45 & 50 years of age and got only worse with time. The Diahrea spells got to be everyday and increased to several times a day. I saw 3 doctors about it and they didn't know what was causing it. I went thru colonoscopy and several other tests and the doctors had no answers. I finally talked to a friend that said she had the same trouble and had been to eight doctors and they had not been able to solve her problem or tell her what she had. She lucked up and had a health food store lady tell her it sounded like she had Celiac Disease. She looked it up on the internet and found it is a simple blood test to see if you have it. She took the info. to her doctor and got tested for it. Sure enough she had it and immediately started on the "wheat free - gluten free diet" and started improving but soon found out you have to strictly stay on the diet the rest of your life or you go right back to the same problems. Wheat flour is in so many prepared foods that it is almost impossible to eat out without it causing you problems. Well anyway, I got the blood test and sure enough I had it too. I have been on the diet for about a year now and believe me it is a very hard diet for me to stick to as I went so many years enjoying breads, cakes cookies, etc. without this problem bothering me. It is so weird how it damages the inside of your small intestines so badly over time! Anyway as long as I stick to the diet I do pretty well. I still have to use immodium or pepto bismol sometimes and even 2 immodium like the instructions say if I am having a real bad day of diahrea spells. Believe me it is very hard to work a job this way and I wear "pullup depends" for mishaps as well as keep a bag with one and clothes in case of a very bad spell. And I keep immodium with me in case I have to take one but like the instructions say take no more than 4 in 24 hours. The blood test is a basic test to see if you have it. They do an indoscopy to make absolutely sure you have it. May God bless you all with whatever you may be suffering!