Health Issues

Celiac disease is difficult to diagnose. People live ten years with it before being correctly diagnosed. Ten years of fatigue, itchy skin, coughing, join pain, depression, irritability or behavior changes, gas, or diarrhea and or constipation. Ten years of extreme weight loss or weight gain with no logical reason. Thats a long time to feel this bad and not know why. Those ten years of a person life couldnt be lived to its fullest.

One-out of one hundred thirty three people have celiac diseases, usually undiagnosed. This includes young children. Seventeen percent of celiac patience have immediate family member that is also celiac.

This seems like a large number and the medical professionals should be taking this disease seriously. People with this disease suffer unnecessarily, have surgeries that arent needed, go to psychologists for help, and get to take medicines for diseases that they really dont have.

Undiagnosed celiac disease makes life hard sometimes and unbearable, but these people are tough and keep going the best they can. Theyre sick and they know it but no one will confirm it for them. So they go thru they life looking bad, low attendance at school or work, emotions out of control, lazy, uninterested, look and act like they are drunk or on drug. Celiac disease can change who a person is or meant to be, it can take a highly motivated person and reduce them to a lazy one. Opportunities are missed, because when youre thinking through peanut butter it is difficult to make sound decisions. They also have to do with the consequences created from those bad decisions. They have to deal with the guilt caused by this disease. When they miss school, or work, late on a project, yelling at loved for no reason, and of course falling asleep at inappropriate times.

Celiac should be a part of a yearly exam. If the patient has three or more of the many symptoms they should be given a blood test for it. The doctor should recommend that the patient go on a gluten free diet to see if it helps.

People should not have to suffer for ten years with diseases that can be cured just by adjusting their diet. That is the only cure. It is not a money making disease but it is devastating to those who suffer with.