Posted 9/8/2011 6:29 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, my name is Tracy. For 17 years, from age 15 on, I was in a litteral HELL! I suffered panic attacks and had phobias that had me curled into the fetal position many nights and stole my life and joy.
At age 22 I eventually went on to suffer with Chronic fatigue, brain fog, eye floaters, soar throat, memory problems, joint pain, continued panic attacks, leg jerks, shortness of breath, blurred vision, vertigo, dizziness, muscle weakness, low blood sugar, mood swings, more phobias,etc.
I searched online constantly and must have visited over 20 DR.s and had testing upon testing to figure out was wrong with me, of course I usually got what alot on here got "Its all in your head." :P
Finally on a whim, because my kids were a bit underweight, I had my two children tested for Celiac Disease, an auto immune disease against Gluten ie..wheat/barley/rye/spelt/kamut/n often oats. One tested positive the other just under the cut off. So I tested and myself just under the cut off. However Celiac is genetic and their father is perfectly healthy so being sick myself, i was sure I was actually positive. The test is only 75% accurate in the first place.
So after going gluten free my symptoms began to melt away. The Sever Panic attacks I had had for over 17 years *POOF* disappeared within 3 months as well all of the other symptoms began melting away. I was released from a nightmarish prison.
*****I am NOT suggesting that all people or most with anxiety/panic disorder have Celiac Disease, only that it is a fact that many people who DO have Celiac are undiagnosed and do have panic disorder, as well as other mental illnesses like ocd, add, adhd, bipolar, schitzophrinia, etc., and are later relieved or cured of these afflictions with the appropriate gluten free diet.
If anyone tests for Celiac ask for the lab values, they may say you're negative when you are close to the cut off....and you may be positive even if you really do have it and the values show totally negative (crappy 75% accurate tests) it is HARD to get out all gluten and people who THINK they are eating gluten free and see no results thus giving up, may have missed their chance for freedom. Gluten is in so many food people do not realize!
Even crosscontamination will keep a Celiac sick, meaning if you are eating something like lays potatoe chips that have no gluten ingrediant you will still get 100-3000 ppm of gluten simply because the product ran across the same belt. IT ONLY TAKES 50ppm to KEEP you sick. So do the research and find out how to go TRULY Gluten Free, not even ONE bite intentionally.
Also most DO go through detox so to speak and you often get sicker the first 1-3 months before you get better.
Celiac is often diagnose easily when you have the typical symptoms...bloating, gas, diahrea, but some of us dont ever present with these symptoms, only neuro symptoms.
I pray at least one person who actually has Celiac Disease passes by this thread and reads it finding freedom from prison as I have. <3
God Bless!!!
Tracy