The thing about having celiac, just so you know, is that your body gets used to being poisoned, so sometimes, you DON'T feel bad after you poison it.
This is why you don't figure it out right away. You don't get sick every time you eat wheat; you're just mildly sick ALL THE TIME, and you don't know why, and you think, maybe it's corn, maybe it's dairy, maybe it's fibro. There is gut stuff sometimes after you eat something really egregious. For me I could count on being sick if I ate gravy. The combination of wheat, meat, and dairy in a lot of roux made me especially ill, so I thought maybe being kosher was making me feel better when I did that, only it never lasted because meat and dairy separate and/or together were never the problem, it's just that adding a lot of fat to my gluten would sometimes make everything worse. Pizza was one of my death meals; I'd really crave it and enjoy it and love eating it, and I would then feel like SHIT. Which I attributed to the fact that (because celiac cravings make you a hungry hungry hippo) I had eaten half a fucking pizza. Or even all of the pizza. (When I was married to my second husband he complained all the time about me being fat, but he wouldn't share a pizza; we each had to get our own, and like as not, I'd eat mine--if I left it in the fridge for leftovers he'd eat it anyway. Third husband was a fat fetishist so he would actively encourage me to eat the whole pizza.)
I'm not saying YOU ARE CELIAC omg, but if you really want to know you should get the blood tests when you can afford it/are on healthcare assistance/insurance of some kind, because that is the only way to be sure.
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Date: 2011-02-18 01:15 am (UTC)This is why you don't figure it out right away. You don't get sick every time you eat wheat; you're just mildly sick ALL THE TIME, and you don't know why, and you think, maybe it's corn, maybe it's dairy, maybe it's fibro. There is gut stuff sometimes after you eat something really egregious. For me I could count on being sick if I ate gravy. The combination of wheat, meat, and dairy in a lot of roux made me especially ill, so I thought maybe being kosher was making me feel better when I did that, only it never lasted because meat and dairy separate and/or together were never the problem, it's just that adding a lot of fat to my gluten would sometimes make everything worse. Pizza was one of my death meals; I'd really crave it and enjoy it and love eating it, and I would then feel like SHIT. Which I attributed to the fact that (because celiac cravings make you a hungry hungry hippo) I had eaten half a fucking pizza. Or even all of the pizza. (When I was married to my second husband he complained all the time about me being fat, but he wouldn't share a pizza; we each had to get our own, and like as not, I'd eat mine--if I left it in the fridge for leftovers he'd eat it anyway. Third husband was a fat fetishist so he would actively encourage me to eat the whole pizza.)
I'm not saying YOU ARE CELIAC omg, but if you really want to know you should get the blood tests when you can afford it/are on healthcare assistance/insurance of some kind, because that is the only way to be sure.