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I just have a kind of little sit back story time video for you guys
And that is me talking about how I was diagnosed with celiac disease, and how I got my diagnosis. How I knew and
That's just what we're gonna talk about so grab your drink of choice
Whether it be coffee or wine depending on the time of the day, you're watching this I got myself some water
but let's get into it because my diagnosis story is a
Kind of a long one just because it took so long for me to be diagnosed and yes
I kind of talked with my hands, so I'm sorry if that bothers you
But let's go back to about eight or nine years ago
I was living with Kemp and his family. I didn't have any kids yet
We weren't married yet, and I just I was sometimes getting sick. It wasn't all the time it
I just it was sometimes
Mainly with like spaghetti 's and heavy pastas, and I would just would feel so sick
It's like maybe I just I don't know I just was sick, and I didn't think anything of it
And I just kept getting sick and getting sick and so years go by we get married
We have babies and things it just still happens. I'm still getting sick
I'm still having anxiety and depression
I'm still getting vomiting and TMI, but you get the diarrhea and the constipation and the back and forth and the wishy-washy and
I'm just feeling all of this all the time
everything I eat almost is making me some like some way sick whether I'm getting a major headache after I eat whether I'm
super nauseous and heartburn and just ow
Everything I seem to eat would hurt me somehow and so it was about
Two years ago
like winter time so what yeah about this time two years ago, and I
Just was fed up the doctors have tried everything nothing was working. Maybe it's this maybe it's that
Nothing was working, and I was sick of the doctor saying well. We can't do anything for you and
That didn't do well with me because hello. I am in pain. I don't feel good. I am sick
So I did my own research. I was doing the what people tell you not to do when you're sick
And I went to Google
Google and
I was typing in all my things I was putting this symptom with this symptom and seeing what popped up and just writing everything down
and crossing them off after I was realized maybe that's not it and then putting this symptom and this symptom together and
Everything like aligned and one of the major things with all of these things with celiac disease or gluten
Intolerance II so I was like oh, maybe I just can't have gluten
So I called my doctor and I was like hi this might sound crazy, but I want some updated blood work
And so we went in we went talking I was talking about my symptoms again
I was telling her that I was fed up with her not doing anything and
I was like I want to be tested for celiac disease it might sound crazy. I might not have it
I want to see if there's any possible way
I have celiac disease or gluten
Intolerance II so can you please do the blood work and so we did the blood panel and a couple weeks later?
She called me in and was like
I'm sorry and
You were right?
Which was a little bit of a breather, but also like holy crap I diagnosed myself
And I really don't even know what it is so
She was like the blood work came back and you do have celiac disease and when we were talking about the numbers
She's like normally people have like four or five six of these antibodies to mark you for sick disease and mine was
so
Bad I had 28 markers or antibodies or whatever and she's like
Holy crap. I'm sorry. I didn't listen. I'm sorry. I couldn't understand
What was going on because this is telling you that you were sick, and I was like
Thank you. Thank you and so
we
decided to
Kind of just go from there. She's like I know I gonna need a GI doctor
I know you'll need this and this and so I
was just
Taken back. I still couldn't understand like holy crap. I have like I have a reason of why I don't feel good
She's like here's the GI doctor try to get into them
and so I go see the GI doctor a few weeks later because there always seemed to be a busy and
He went over the blood work and was like yeah, that's what you have congratulations
You have celiac disease and was telling me all of these things and just trying to scare the living crap out of me like you
Probably gets this you'll probably have this in the next three years. You will definitely get fat and
I was like I just got diagnosed
why are you being a bleep tin bleep tin to me like I like people that are a little bit sincere, but he was just
cutthroat straight to the point which I can I can be thankful for because I now I know what's happening and what's coming but
Right after you're diagnosed. It kind of stung a little bit especially with the you're definitely gonna get that part and
So we did my endoscopy we did my colonoscopy just to
Double-check and see where my stomach was at in my areas and turns out my stomach had none of
The villa it's supposed to happen
I talked about that in my what is celiac disease video
And I'll put it up in the iCard as well as down below
And I kind of talk about what all the villas and all that stuff means so definitely go check out that video
I am going to be doing more videos of select education and what this is what that is and all that stuff but
My biopsy came back and was like yes. Yes, so that disease you have no villi you can't absorb anything
Oh, that's my diagnosis story
I had to diagnose myself, and I'm so glad I did because who knows I could still be in pain with doctors not listening so
now from now on my doctor does a really good job of listening and taking care and doing her own research and
We're just continuing to fight for my health
so I want to know your
Diagnosis story if you have a gluten intolerance e or so that disease or if you have another chronic or invisible illness leave your comments
Down below with how you were diagnosed how long it took you all that stuff
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