I was just diagnosed with celiac and milk allergy. I have been ill
since I was a child. Always having an upset stomach and running to the
bathroom, random hives and excema, headaches etc. I was very thin (5'6
and 92lbs) and had a known allergy to food dye (specifically reds and
oranges.)

I seemed to do fairly well until I started working. I could handle
going to work for a few days but then I would be so sick by the 3 day
with severe stomach cramps, nausea, dizzyness, diarrhea, low blood
sugar, blurred vision, migranes etc. I would stay home 2 days and
would feel better - return to work and the same thing again. I also
had joint and muscle pain and a very low immune system which caused me
to have frequent infections that I had to go on multiple rounds of
antiobiotics to get rid or and I would catch anything!

Finally I couldn't even handle getting out of bed anymore because I
was tire and exhausted from being sick and in pain all the time - I
went off on sick leave. It took 3 years of testing and many hypothesis
and guesses about what was going on before finding a doctor who looked
at my file and poof said he was sure I had something - sent me for the
testing and voila - 5 appointments and the last one was Thursday and I
feel better already!

It's been very emotion few days for me - because I was so angry that I
have had to live THIS long feeling the way I do to find out all I have
to do is stop eating gluten and milk products and have a pill for my
arthritis (which I didn't know I had until Thursday - I knew I had
pain but I'm 24!! how could it arthritis right?) and - it is Sunday
and I feel like I did before!

Now things have stared making sense to me. My low weight (but 4 years
ago I ballooned out to 165lbs for no reason in 2 months!), me being
sick from being at work (the only place I really had sandwhiches and
crackers - and always whole wheat!) and many other things. Plus my
mother cannot have bread - but has never been tested - without getting
very sick.

Hopefully I am well on my way to becoming a healthy and WORKING adult
again.

This is going to change my life - and for the better!