Today has been a day. I was accidentally glutenized this weekend and have been paying for it all day long. Ok, so I think I failed to mention that I can no longer tolerate wheat/gluten ever since going off it to nurse Cooper. I am self diagnosed Celiac these days. I fit all the symptoms, but can't get a positive diagnosis because I have been off gluten for too long. I know I have some sort of gluten intolerance, be it Celiac or not, so I am living the G-free life now. Eating food that I didn't prepare and packaged foods with hidden glutens all weekend long caught up to me today. My energy was gone, I have a headache, and I have the lovely tummy issues that comes with the territory. I think it's almost over though. I have got to be more cautious and more prepared.
Here's my question though... Why does my body keep attacking itself? What is off? How can I fix it. My chiro believes that there is a cause for everything, something out of line. So what is out of line with me? My body attacks my hair follicles, and makes my hair fall out. Alopecia. I am lucky to have post pubescent onset though, so only a few bald patches that are easily covered. If I do in fact have Celiac, then when I eat wheat/gluten, it causes my body to attack itself. I believe that endo and IC are also auto-immune. My uterus produces a lining as it should, but instead of staying in the uterus, it grows on my bladder, ovaries, uterosacrels, and then bleeds when I cycle. My body doesn't like this bleeding, so it reacts. With the IC, my body causes irritation in my bladder, for no known reason and can even produce ulcers as a response. So, I can't help but wonder, why? What is causing this? I will probably never now. I'm ok with that, but life would be easier if I could figure it out.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Thanks for coming to my blog and leaving me a comment!!!! I especially LOVE to hear success stories that have similarity with mine!
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine what you are going through with your body now. I recently saw something on TV where Elisabeth Hasselbeck was promoting her book "The G-Free Diet". She went onto say something along the lines of....switch to g-free life----and this (showing pregnant belly) is what happened!!!! Wouldn't that be nice?? If only it was that easy!!! Not that living gluten free is easy---I mean if only changing your diet got you pregnant!!?? Anyway--just thought I'd share that incase you hadn't heard of her new book.
Thanks again for stopping by. I hope to "chat" with you more often!!! Thanks for sharing the success story---it really is the only thing giving me hope now!!!
PPsssttt----I posted above as my "out of the closet" blogger. My other blog is the one you posted on.....onemorelittleone (looking4#3), that is the "secret", not giving up my identity blog. Guess my secret is out with you!!
ReplyDeletehaha. I won't tell. I know what you mean. This is linked with my family blog where I report on my little man. Sometimes, I think I might be more open if it weren't, but it's my blog, so I think I'll say what I want:) Our sucessful IUI was our one last shot before moving on. I had to convince the dr to let us give it that try. It is a hard decision to know where to start. I hope you are at peace with whatever route you decide. And yes, I got her book. Celiac can cause IF and miscarriage. She couldn't get pg, then she found out about the celiac, changed her diet, and now is preggers with #3. Maybe that was part of my problem too. Hope so:) Thanks for stopping by and good luck!
ReplyDeleteOOPS! I'm signed in through my photog site. haha
ReplyDeleteI feel like my body hates me, too! It's so frustrating. I'd love to have an answer for all this...doesn't it seem like there's just some little *something* wrong that if we could just *fix* it would make things better? And yet all the issues are so difficult to diagnose and to manage that it just seems to leave the doctors scratching their heads. I'm about ready to shell out some big bucks and go to a naturopathic doctor because every time a regular one tries to "fix" one problem, the cure creates three more problems! I'm hoping for you that the GF diet will heal a lot of issues and make things better.
ReplyDeleteOh! And I almost forgot, here's something I thought might help, it's a thread about celiac and IC on Celiac.com's forum.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.celiac.com/gluten-free/index.php?showtopic=12607
me yet again...here is an article on the same subject. Maybe the IC and the gluten thing *are* related? I've never had IC but have had at least 2 conditions that were related to the celiac's, it does tend to attract other problems.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.celiac.com/articles/21636/1/Gluten-Sensitivity-and-Bladder-Disease/Page1.html