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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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I’m not happy….
I figured my first post after the holiday would be about my reunion. It was an exciting thing and I want to share with you all, but my state government has irked the living crap out of me. I must vent about it.
Here in Kansas, we have a lovely statehouse. It’s very pretty, has some great historic parts to it. I also know that with old buildings that you have to do work on them so they don’t fall down around your ears. I live in an older home, I’ve got that figured out. There’s one thing that I have figured out that our lovely state reps must not have yet, if you don’t have money for the basics you have to hold off the remolding.
I know the economy sucks right now and that we all have to make sacrifices. I was ticked off enough about the budget cuts for education, the lottery was supposed to keep education funded. Then today on the local news they announce that the state is issuing bonds to cover the renovation to the statehouse. That’s right, we’ve cut the school’s budgets by $116 per pupil (rumors have it that another $116 will be cut by next year), but approved $38 million in bonds to keep the statehouse pretty. Ummm….. it doesn’t matter how pretty something is if no one is educated enough to work there.
Maybe that’s the state’s plan, cut funding for education, students lose out of many things, then when it’s time for them to get jobs they won’t have to pay as much. I want to reach out and smack someone. Get a clue!!!! You can’t be dropping $38 million for a building, when you can’t fund education at the level it has been in the past.
You can read the whole article from wibw.com . They are my local news channel that alerted me to this….. well….. I’ll let you fill in the blank for yourself.