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I know I have CD but I haven't been diagnosed yet
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levilamb posted:
I have all the symptoms of CD and it seems to get worse each day. I am a 68 year old white female and I have recently - in the past year - started having issues with runny poop, horrendous gas, achie guts, and I just never know what will set me off. I've recently found bananas to be a bad fruit for me. I don't know what to do about it because it seems to be at random when something I've eaten will really do me in. Gas is so bad at times, I'm careful when I'm out among people that I am afraid to eat anything because it might do me in. I would die if I had gas in public...it will gage a maggot. Someone please tell me that there is something that will make it go away.
1 Replies |Watch This Discussion | Report This| Share this:I know I have CD but I haven't been diagnosed yetI have all the symptoms of CD and it seems to get worse each day. I am a 68 year old white female and I have recently - in the past year - started having issues with runny poop, horrendous gas, achie guts, and I just never know what will set me off. I've recently found bananas to be a bad fruit for me. I don't know what to do about it because it seems to be at random when something I've eaten will really do me in. Gas is so bad at times, I'm careful when I'm out among people that I am afraid to eat anything because it might do me in. I would die if I had gas in public...it will gage a maggot. Someone please tell me that there is something that will make it go away.
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CalGal37 responded:
If you do have celiac disease, start a gluten-free diet and you'll be amazed at the changes that will take place.

If you want to find out for yourself if you truly do have celiac, do the fecal antibody test put out by enterolab.com and see what results come up. It's the most reliable test I know and in some cases is better than the 'gold standard,' the biopsy. It's helped a lot of people find out they need to be GF when everything else has failed.

But if the smell of your fecal material or gas is really, really bad, make sure you ask your doc to run and stool test to rule out the presence of C. diff. It's a nasty bacterium that can cause miserable changes to the GI tract and the odor has a horrible, but characteristic smell of 'something died.' It causes a host of symptoms that can be mistaken for other conditions.

In the meantime you might want to give probiotics a try. There are several good brands on the market and for many they're very helpful in bringing some symptoms into line.
Report This| Share this:I know I have CD but I haven't been diagnosed yetIf you do have celiac disease, start a gluten-free diet and you'll be amazed at the changes that will take place. <br /> <br />If you want to find out for yourself if you truly do have celiac, do the fecal antibody test put out by enterolab.com and see what results come up. It's the most reliable test I know and in some cases is better than the 'gold standard,' the biopsy. It's helped a lot of people find out they need to be GF when everything else has failed. <br /> <br />But if the smell of your fecal material or gas is really, really bad, make sure you ask your doc to run and stool test to rule out the presence of C. diff. It's a nasty bacterium that can cause miserable changes to the GI tract and the odor has a horrible, but characteristic smell of 'something died.' It causes a host of symptoms that can be mistaken for other conditions. <br /> <br />In the meantime you might want to give probiotics a try. There are several good brands on the market and for many they're very helpful in bringing some symptoms into line.
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