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Celiac Symptoms
I was doing a little google search on celebs that have the dreaded C. There were like five listed. I got to thinking why wouldn’t more people be listed. Well, my number one guess is that people aren’t getting tested because they don’t know they symptoms and other associated issues. So I’m going to be twittering them throughout the next few days. I’m going to try to post five tonight and five each day until I get them all. Ok so I tried that then realized very quickly it would be this time next year before I got it done. It’s not that I want a whole bunch of people to have this but I don’t want people to suffer.
What started all of this, why was I googling it to begin with? I saw a quote on a message board that really bothered me. It takes on average 11 years to be diagnosed here in the US. It takes three weeks to get diagnosed in Europe. ELEVEN YEARS!!! Eleven years to be miserable for no reason other then our medical community doesn’t understand it. So here we go….
- bloating, gas and/or abdominal pain
- Weight loss and fluid retention
- Heart Failure
- chronic diarrhea, pale, foul-smelling, or fatty stool, constipation
- unexplained iron-deficiency anemia
- fatigue
- bone or joint pain, arthritis, bone loss or osteoporosis
- depression or anxiety Behavior changes/depression/irritability
- tingling numbness in the hands and feet
- missed menstrual periods, infertility or recurrent miscarriage
- Muscle weakness
- Delayed growth or onset of puberty
- Epitasis (nose bleeding)
- Hematuria (red urine)
- No obvious physical symptoms (just fatigue, overall not feeling well)
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
Now for the issues that go along with Celiac check this link out Celiac Disease. Yes, all of those things listed go along with Celiac. So take a moment to read all the links provided there is a lot more information there then here. If you start to wonder if you do have it go to Celiac Central do the checklist and take it to your doctor. MAKE THEM DO THE TESTS!
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RE: Dying Out
I just read a great blog post. I follow the writer on Twitter. He has that horrible thing called Celiac. Those with Celiac think they have it bad, try being the wife. It was more of a learning experience for me then anyone else. That though is a whole other story.
In the blog he talks about what it’s like to dine out. It’s tricky let me tell you. We like to eat out, not that I don’t like to cook, I love it. It’s just fun to eat out and we are lucky we can. The thing I have found out though, it’s not so much fun to eat out with a Celiac person. There’s only a few restaurants we can eat at. They get boring after awhile. I look forward to dinner out with the girls when I can eat some place that doesn’t have gluten free.
Our favorite gluten free restaurant – Outback Steakhouse in Topeka, KS. Why? It’s simple really. They have dessert and a real menu, it was that simple. Our first outing there was Valentine’s Day. I told the host that we had a gluten free person with us. That’s all it took, he got a special menu, they came out and talked to him about the menu, checked and double checked to make sure everything was coming out ok. Then the moment of pure utter excitement, he got dessert. It wasn’t just ice cream, it was a brownie. Have you ever seen a 45 year old man act like a 5 year old girl who just got a pony? Take a brownie loving Celiac to Outback, you’ll see it.
The keys to eating out, find a couple of places that understand it, become their friend and tell them how much you appreciate the fact that they offer it.