Because some of you asked…
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| The day I went to the ER with left side pain. Can you see why no one took me seriously? Once again felt like I was crazy. |
For the last 4 years I have struggled badly with random
ailments increasing in intensity. This is what spurred me to keep searching for
a root cause despite numerous doctors failing to find anything, and the
implication that this was “all in my head”. Looking back on my life since I entered
puberty, I see small signs that perhaps this was an issue for the majority of
my adult life and even back in high school. The science is still somewhat vague
on the complex subject of gut health and celiac.
I don’t pretend to be a medical professional. I’m just sharing
my experiences, hoping that if you have a lot of the same unexplained issues it
might point you toward your gut and perhaps healing. From my research online, in books and around talking with people around me I have found, celiac or gut dysfunction can present in many different ways. I am still learning about this and have
experienced a lot of trial and error on my journey. I hope that sharing it can
help others get help faster than I did.
Symptoms I have experienced:
1. Brain fog and dizziness ( not vertigo but
feeling continually like I’m buzzed) and unable to focus without concentrating
extremely hard.
2. My eye wandering and causing me to see double. ( I had this since childhood and it always is worse when I’m tired; but its not a classic “lazy eye” diagnosis; it ebbs and flows but has been very prevalent in the last 4 yrs)
3. Feeling like my eyesight is failing; esp at night driving but not finding any change in prescription upon examination
4. Constipation (life long)
5. Moderate to severe lower back pain (life long)
6. TMJ
7. Headaches…a few migraines
8. Anxiety
9. Insomnia
10. Stomach burning; pain; bloating; gas that could clear a room; pain that wouldn’t stop unless I laid out flat on my stomach (has gone on for years; just thought it was normal from eating junky foods; also I would say that stomach pain is like the frog in the pot…it increases gradually and you deal with it day in and day out until you don’t notice it too much; I would’ve said I don’t really have much stomach pain but having just small improvements at times over the last months has shown me I absolutely did!)
11. Left side, upper under the ribs stabbing and on going for months at a time and then subsiding (this was bad enough to send me to the ER at one point…where they pronounced me fine except for colitis…gave me an antibiotic and sent me on my way; even at this point my GI dr didn’t find it alarming and sent me to my OBGYN assuring me it was a cyst problem)
12. Weak, flaking nails
13. Dark circles and puffy eyes even with enough sleep
14. Chronic fatigue
15. GERD, acid reflux flares (this feels like there is a lump in my throat and sometimes like its swollen up down there and hard to swallow)
16. Chronic dry mouth
17. Fluctuating weight
18. Leg cramps
19. Joint aches and pains
20. Extreme neck and shoulder pain
21. Irritability
22. Loneliness and isolation
23. Panic attacks
24. Depression (attributed to post partum; major life event: moving)
25. Loss of interest in activities
26. Obsessive thinking
27. Burning in foot joint
28. Tingling in arms and hands; arm falling asleep often at night
29. Hemorrhoids (figured that was just from having babies)
30. Irregular heartbeat
31. Sinus pressure and increase in seasonal allergies
32. PCOS: lots of ovarian cyst starting after the birth of my first child; an un-resolving cyst in my fallopian tube and continuous pain resulted in my having a full hysterectomy in 2015.
33. Suggestions of insulin resistance
34. Failure to metabolize estrogen well
35. Canker sores in my mouth
36. Tooth issues: crazy bizarre infections that would not heal and stumped my dentist and oral surgeon
37. Adrenal fatigue
38. Off and on cycle of vaginal yeast infections
39. Uncontrollable carb cravings
40. Teenage acne that was BAD!
41. Toe nail infections
2. My eye wandering and causing me to see double. ( I had this since childhood and it always is worse when I’m tired; but its not a classic “lazy eye” diagnosis; it ebbs and flows but has been very prevalent in the last 4 yrs)
3. Feeling like my eyesight is failing; esp at night driving but not finding any change in prescription upon examination
4. Constipation (life long)
5. Moderate to severe lower back pain (life long)
6. TMJ
7. Headaches…a few migraines
8. Anxiety
9. Insomnia
10. Stomach burning; pain; bloating; gas that could clear a room; pain that wouldn’t stop unless I laid out flat on my stomach (has gone on for years; just thought it was normal from eating junky foods; also I would say that stomach pain is like the frog in the pot…it increases gradually and you deal with it day in and day out until you don’t notice it too much; I would’ve said I don’t really have much stomach pain but having just small improvements at times over the last months has shown me I absolutely did!)
11. Left side, upper under the ribs stabbing and on going for months at a time and then subsiding (this was bad enough to send me to the ER at one point…where they pronounced me fine except for colitis…gave me an antibiotic and sent me on my way; even at this point my GI dr didn’t find it alarming and sent me to my OBGYN assuring me it was a cyst problem)
12. Weak, flaking nails
13. Dark circles and puffy eyes even with enough sleep
14. Chronic fatigue
15. GERD, acid reflux flares (this feels like there is a lump in my throat and sometimes like its swollen up down there and hard to swallow)
16. Chronic dry mouth
17. Fluctuating weight
18. Leg cramps
19. Joint aches and pains
20. Extreme neck and shoulder pain
21. Irritability
22. Loneliness and isolation
23. Panic attacks
24. Depression (attributed to post partum; major life event: moving)
25. Loss of interest in activities
26. Obsessive thinking
27. Burning in foot joint
28. Tingling in arms and hands; arm falling asleep often at night
29. Hemorrhoids (figured that was just from having babies)
30. Irregular heartbeat
31. Sinus pressure and increase in seasonal allergies
32. PCOS: lots of ovarian cyst starting after the birth of my first child; an un-resolving cyst in my fallopian tube and continuous pain resulted in my having a full hysterectomy in 2015.
33. Suggestions of insulin resistance
34. Failure to metabolize estrogen well
35. Canker sores in my mouth
36. Tooth issues: crazy bizarre infections that would not heal and stumped my dentist and oral surgeon
37. Adrenal fatigue
38. Off and on cycle of vaginal yeast infections
39. Uncontrollable carb cravings
40. Teenage acne that was BAD!
41. Toe nail infections
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