This diet is frustrating me lately. It's been over 3 weeks since I had anything with wheat or dairy in it, and I don't really feel any differently. I know that it can take longer for the lingering effects to finally wear off, but it's still disheartening for now that 25 days have gone by with no noticeable difference except massive cravings.
Thanks for the comment too, Emilie, I know I should get tested, but that's frustrating me lately too. Why didn't my doctor test for this in the first place 6 years ago? I went all the way to Portland to see a gastroenterologist, you'd think she would have checked me for celiac if I had the symptoms. She didn't even attempt to help me figure out how to eat so I wouldn't hurt, just ran a battery of expensive, invasive tests and ended up diagnosing me with IBS, which in medical language means, "We have no idea why you can't digest foods like a normal person."
I'm currently doing several days without any grains, to see if that's the reason my stomach has been unhappy lately. Maybe I'm just unable to easily digest anything grain-like. It's not like my stomach is usually debilitating, it's just not normal. Then there are rare mornings like this where it feels like someone tied a knot in my intestines.
And it sucks to be so left out of everything. I'm starting to realize what people with severe allergies or celiac go through. Everything social involves food or alcohol, and not being able to consume either makes you somewhat of an outsider. It's really hard to sit in a coffee shop to knit while they are baking cookies, or hang out with friends while they drink beer & eat food I want but can't have. Going to Italy and not having pasta? Unthinkable.
Just chalk it up to hormones or low blood sugar, I'm just depressed today.
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I meant to also mention that my sister has had lifelong stomach issues and also got the IBS diagnosis after a battery of tests. She totally agrees that it's a crap diagnosis. She recently went to a naturopath and got a few allergy tests done and come to find out she has fructose intolerance.
The thing about celiac, it's only been in the past few years that it's become more well known that it's more common then previously thought. So maybe it just wasn't standard to test for it back when you saw the GI specialist? We recently had a disappointing experience with a pediatric gastroenterologist up at Doerhnbecker's. She did a bunch of tests on Sean and only could say that his issues were what is called "toddler's diarrhea" which has no known cause. Basically IBS for kids. She poo-poo'd my questions about GI issues being related to autism, yeast, leaky gut, etc. So glad we paid her all that money to tell us what we already knew! Ugh.
I know what you mean about socializing and food. For Nick I think that is the hardest part. That and trying to find a restaurant that he and Sean can actually eat at. It's always nice to go up to Portland, there are so many more choices for eating out!
omg, please mentally correct all my typos!
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