Great I'm Crazy

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Well I went to see the latest doctor in a string of doctors. I have been trying for the last 2 months to be as GF as possible and feel better. I even gained 4 pounds.
So my new Dr.s greatest idea. Go back to eating like normal becuase all my blood work was normal. And he suggested a phsychiatrist.
Great, he thinks I'm crazy. Or worse anorexic I guess? He said I could have lost 55 pounds and aquired those symptoms from stress.
At this point do I go GF to prove to another DR it makes me feel like crap.
Or do I stay away from it and keep my money for more important things.

Of course there is always the fear it is in my head. Maybe I am crazy.

[mrsppmrxky]

No you aren't crazy. At this point, why worry about the dr. saying 'yes, it is CD'? You know that you are feeling better. You gained weight that you needed to gain. You do not need a dr.'s permission to eat as you wish, so do what you know is best for your body.

I am sorry that you were told that you needed mental help!! I had that happen to me about 12 yrs ago. The dr. even gave me prozac.......he didn't even examine me!! If he had even done my blood work, he would have seen that I was extremely low in hormones. Another dr. found it out within 2 days of that visit.

I think that a lot of us here have seen just about every kind of quack out there at one time or another.

I have come to realise that just because there is a MD behind their name, it doesn't make them 'god'. (of course many of them want you to think that they are.)

It takes a while to shake off that 'diaganosis', but just remember that you are the only one that truly knows how you feel.

(((hug)))
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[ostrich]

I say stick with trying to be GF and go find (yet another) doctor.

You know, sometimes I pity docs like that. Take your doc for example. S/he has probably seen way too many cases of women who make up every excuse in the world so they're not discovered to be anorexic. Naturally, your doc assumes you're the same way, so s/he recommended a shrink. Docs like that really need to find another profession. It's a bad sign when you're so jaded you just assume stuff.

Did you explain to the doc that your blood levels might be returning to normal due to the diet? Or would it have fallen on deaf ears?
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[cruelshoes]

You have to keep in mind what doctors are there for. Their job is to run tests and make diagnoses based on the results. So according to the methods he is using, you don't have a problem with gluten. We all know the traditional routes don't work for everyone, but the medical profession hasn't caught up yet.

I had cancer as a teenager. Before the doctors were able to diagnose me, they told my parents that I was just anorexic and seeking attention. Luckily my parents did not buy it and the doctors eventually found a tumor the size of a grapefruit! Doctors need to categorize things, and if the tests they are running fail to do that, they have to find another way to do it. Mental problems can very often be a straw they grasp at.

As much as I am in favor of a diagnosis, I'm not sure I would want to go back on gluten to get one. You shouldn't have to prove to anyone that gluten causes you problems. If you really wand a diagnosis of sorts, you always have the option of Enterolab.

The last doctor I saw before I saw the wonderful doctor that diagnosed me put me on Prozac too. She told me that I was causing all my problems with the stress in my life, and needed to relax more. She told me that I was clinically depressed. She didn't bother to consider that maybe I was depressed because I was starving to death from malabsorption. Feeling sick IS DEPRESSING!

There is no medical reason to eat gluten, so there is no medical reason not to eat it. If you eat a varied diet, you can get all the nutrients you need without wheat, barley or rye. If you know gluten causes you problems, I say don't eat it.
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Dx 8/05 via bloodwork/biopsy
9-YO son Dx 11/05 via bloodwork/biopsy
Daughters have negative bloodwork - so far!

A woman is like a tea bag-you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt

[Dan]

I'd say, stay gluten-free. I'm sure you will get gluted enough, just accidently, you won't have to worry about doing it on purpose. To me it seems like lot of celiacs take some of the words of Drs with a grain of salt with there experience getting diagnosed.

[krisiw]

You should definitely decide what's more important to you--do you want to know without a doubt, medically, that you have CD, or do you want to feel better and be healthy right now? When I first went off gluten I didn't have insurance, so I just went off of and I proved it to myself by going on and off several times, both on purpose and accidently. That was enough for me. There's no way, now, that I would go back on gluten for anything. I don't care if I have celiac or if I just have a gluten allergy; I will never go back on gluten. But it's up to you. However, if you are feeling symptoms when you're on gluten, you're not crazy! You know how you feel. And you know how you feel off of gluten. For the longest time, my mother would say, "well I doubt you actually have CD," because I wasn't diagnosed, but I just smiled and ate my GF bread.