Stuff You Are Really Sick Of Hearing About…
15 May
…And will probably stop visiting if I don’t stop banging on about.
Gluten!!
In my travels around this great wide Internets I found a forum for people with coeliac disease, friends and family of people with coeliac disease and people who are being diagnosed. Firstly, I haven’t been diagnosed, so I don’t know for sure it’s even coeliac disease. I have been paying close attention to what I eat and how I feel afterwards and it seems very close to coeliac disease, I am also getting more and more sick every time I eat dairy which might be lactose intolerance or casein intolerance, which would explain why a lactose free milk made me violently ill. Lots of people on the forum have tested negative for coeliac for many years but have been eating gluten free then one day they do finally get the diagnosis that matches they way they’ve felt for ages. It seems so be something Doctor’s don’t necessarily know much about, which is why it’s not often picked up, so Lady Doctor seems to know a fair bit if it was her idea to test for it in the first place.
After I go to Lady Doctor on Friday I will know if my blood test indicated potential coeliac disease, but even if it doesn’t I am going to try avoiding gluten for a month to see if it makes any difference to how I feel. I had vegetable sushi the other day with soy sauce from the little fish bottle and felt fine. I had a vegetable and a fried tofu sushi yesterday with Kikoman soy sauce and felt really sick. The vege sushi had mayo or something in it, and Kikoman contains wheat. Curious, I always thought rice would be really safe, and I suppose it is, it’s just the sauces that make me sick. At Wagamama the only two dishes that are inherently gluten free are edamame and chilli squid. So my only choice is salty beans, mmmmm. The rice thing I like to eat can be made gluten free without any sauce, I can live with that.
Coeliac disease can also "start" after a period of stress so your body just freaks out and starts hating food that you’ve eaten without too many problems for years. I remember first getting sick around December last year. October/November/December involved leaving as secure job, starting a new wonderful job, finding out new wonderful job was anything but, being unemployed, feeling like a complete waste of skin of taking such a risk, crying daily about being said waste of skin and being such a financial burden, how could I be so stupid and all, so I guess it’s safe to say that would count as a period of stress.
I only really noticed the symptoms of …toilet problems, stabbing stomach cramps and feeling generally "sick" because they are the ones that are really different to how I feel normally. Other symptoms of eating gluten are being completely fatigued (tick), in a mind fog/feeling drunk (tick), headaches and head spins (tick) muscle cramps (tick), moodiness and irritability (tick, but very likely to be related to Lady Plumbing also) but I wrote all of these off for other reasons. Being coeliac can also lead to being iron and calcium deficient because your little villi in your intestine are very sick and cannot grab onto the nutrients before they…go out.
Isn’t it all very interesting?! I think it is. The only think I have that has made me sick for as long as I can remember is milk. I used to be able to drink milk if I was eating something, but a glass of milk by itself has always made me feel really ill. I tried it again with the lactose free milk a few weeks ago, just to see if it was all in my mind, but it wasn’t, and I became very aware of this about two minutes after drinking it. I kind of want a skin prick test to see if I am allergic to other stuff, as I’ve said previously, I am a sucker for punishment!
Its all very complicated, isn’t it? Hope things get clarified at Lady Doctor on Friday.
You’re right.
So you better start posting some pictures or posts that are 25 words or less, so that idiots with minute attention spans like me are kept amused…
Amanda, It is, did you know even the glue that holds the toilet paper on the roll has gluten in it?! I am, however, not giving up toilet paper.
SurferCam, point taken
I still haven’t put my new hair pictures. Once it’s washed and styled I’ll be sure and photograph it for all of you with wee attention spans, alright?
No. I really, really didn’t know that. Although I did have a converstaion about the merits of non scented toilet paper last night.
Thinking about it, it was a bit of a stupid question, most people have no reason to know that in the first place, huh?
I am a non scented fan, we once had one that smelt like Gardenia and I hate Gardenia’s with the most firey of passions so all scented toilet paper was wrecked by that one type.
Scented toilet paper makes me sneeze. Plus, its really just the worst sickly sweet smell ever. Why is there even a need for scented toilet paper? Ridiculous!
Dairy intolerance?
Amanda, it is always a really sickly scent, hey?
Enny, maybe? I guess I’ll find out soon enough.
I swear I commented earlier. But then again my comments often go astray from blogs.
Jay, I do that all the time. I just think I’ve commented but really I just thought about what I’d say and never typed it anywhere