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Think You Could Be Celiac? Don’t Stop Eating Gluten Just Yet!
I decided to write this post after speaking with a number of people who would have loved to have an official diagnosis but don’t due to the fact that they stopped eating gluten before they were tested. Some people are able to stay strictly gluten free and live like a celiac whether they have an
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Celiac and Missed Periods
One of my most worrying symptoms which eventually led to my celiac diagnosis was a lack of period. I suffered from a whole bunch of different horrible symptoms leading up to my final diagnosis but this was the thing which concerned me the most and prompted me to find out what was wrong as soon
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IgA Deficienct Celiac
Have you tested negative in the celiac blood test but still suffering from lots of horrible symptoms which sound like undiagnosed celiac disease? The test may have yielded a false negative for a number of reasons. One obvious reason for a false negative on the celiac blood test is that you haven’t been eating gluten, or haven’t
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What Was Your Last (Glutenous) Meal?
Can you remember the last gluten filled meal that you ate before gluten became your most loathed enemy? Did you know at the time that it was going to be your last?
Celiac Disease Symptoms
Recently I was speaking to a friend who suffers from bad anemia and bloating after eating. She has had this for a while and doctors haven’t been able to pinpoint the reason. A huge siren went off inside my head when I heard this. This sounded just like me three years ago before I was
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The cost of being diagnosed as coeliac?
Recently I’ve been speaking to gluten free travellers from around the world. Some of these people have known they are coeliac for many years, others have been fairly recently diagnosed like myself and a number know that gluten affects them negatively but have not yet discovered the full reason for this.
Coeliac Disease and Non-Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity
There is huge debate and research going on right now on coeliac disease (CD) versus non-coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS). For a long time it appears that NCGS wasn’t  a diagnosis that was made but with more and more people with text book symptoms testing negative to CD it’s becoming more and more written and talked
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