Celiac: From the Beginning

Some people are born with it (and no, it's not Maybelline) , while other people obtain it later on in their life and have to suffer silently until diagnosed probably years after the symptoms first appeared.This is the cycle of probably many illnesses or diseases but the one I will be focusing on in my blogs is: Celiac Disease.

At this very moment there are at least 3 million people probably sitting on the toilet, all in pain, unaware that there is a solution to the crappy (pun intended) feeling they get after eating almost every meal of thier life. Because Celiac Disease has so many symptoms and is a newer disease to the world, doctors don't think to test people of Celiac as often as they should.

Long story short, Celiac Disease is when the body can't digest wheat, barley, or rye. There are people who are gluten intolerant but that isn't as serious as Celiac.

There are symptoms of Celiac that I didn't know about until after I was experiencing the absense of them. Just from my experience since I've been gluten free for the past year, here are a list of symptoms gluten made my body possess: ~irritable bowel syndrome
~acid reflux
~acne
~sinusitis all the time
~nausea

Though I know I've been vague throughout this blog, there is just too much to say in 1 of them. Next time, I will talk about my personal experience of how I finally got diagnosed. I will end this blog with a link to a video that explains way more acturately than I can what it means to have Celiac Disease. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4v-9U8GbLu0