I am new to all of this blogging, but due to a new recent allergy test, I have finally found an actuall cause to alot of my medical problems!! GLUTEN & EGGS!! I honestly never thought food that I eat would cause soooo many medical problems. At times still I cannot believe it. The stranger thing about it is, that my sister has a gluten intolerance too!!
After getting lab results, I instantly Google, gluten food allergy. The results were overwhelming. The word Celiac, kept coming up in my searches. I love to read and do as much research as I can. I just like to be aware of everything, I guess it is just part of my OCD.
I searched books, and found that Elisabeth Hasselback's book, OMG it was like she was writing it about me, and my sister!! I could hardly read the first two chapters, and I was calling my sister! All of the signs and symptons of gluten intolerance, either I had or my sister had.
Just a little background, ever since I had my 2nd daughter, in 2006, I have been soo tired, bloated, I just thought it was from pregnancy and post pardum issues. I then got pregnant with my 3rd daughter very shortly after delivery of my 2nd daughter, (they are 11 months apart!!!!) I was having alot of joint pain, esp my hips and low back. Almost like restless legs, but restless hips. I was soo tired, but again, I just had a baby, an 11mnth old, and a 6yr old. Hello I was going to be tired! So i just blew it off and delt with all my symptoms. it was not untill i was at one of my yearly gyn appts, in 2009, and my dr did some labs, VIT D, Thyroid panel, RA factors, and some other basic blood work. All came back norm except the Vit D level, it was critically low 17! Norm is 50-100. low vit d causes joint pain and fatigue. so she started me on a prescription of a vit d supplement 10,000 units. (most daily rec doses are 400-1000units) so i took it for couple of months, then had my level rechecked. it went up slightly to about 35. still low, so i took a supplement for along time with a recheck about 6 months it was low again! i thought seriously i have been taking the supplement every week and eating and drinking everything with extra vit d and i was outside as much as i could!!
so i went to my NP, and she started me on a higher supplement 50,000iu!! i was holy crap she means business ,and this is a serious problem! I had also developed an umblical hernia, (thanks pregnancies) .it was causing me problems, so i went to my NP for bowel issues and abd pain. she then ref me to a surgeon to have a hernia repair. Great Surgery! Great! i was soo scared and nervous, knowing to much medical is not always a good thing, all i could think about were the complications, and what ifs,
so i I had the surg. and i felt better, but i was sooo bloated post op, which i knew i was going to be sicne they put gas in ur abd . but this was different, it was 6 weeks post op and i was still bloated. usually the gas absorbs into your body, and i was very constipated all the time. i knew something was wrong.
i started a new job at a family practice doctors office. with my NP and this amazing FP DR. She is so amazing and caring, I just love love working for her!! anyways after discusisng my s/s with her, she suggest i get a food allergy test panel done. so i did, and 3 weeks later I got my results.....
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