When you are diagnosed with a chronic illness, it feels like the sky is falling on your head. And if you are 19 years old, then… I think there are two ways to react: either you take it easy: “Let me be, I have more important things to do than think about this”, or… yes, you feel that the sky is falling on your head. At first I did as in point one, but as the years passed and the pains not only didn’t go away, they got worse and spread to places where I didn’t even know there were joints and then the internet came along and I learned more (doctors are very busy, they don’t have time to explain to you in detail or I’m hard-headed), then other illnesses started to appear, apparently unrelated to each other, I started to think that maybe it’s me defective, or there is a common cause for all these manifestations. And I started reading (long live the internet!). And after a few years of reading (I told you I’m hard-headed, I have Mercury in exile), I came across an article in which I found all the illnesses I was suffering from united under one name: gluten intolerance! And I had a wow moment! I found it!
When this happened I was very ill, I had really stepped on my heart and started taking anti-inflammatories because I couldn’t sleep at night because of the pain and I was sitting in weird positions to get my socks on, so that I said to myself: what do I have to lose if I try? So I eliminated wheat, rye, barley, and oats from my diet for a few days, I said, to see what happens. And it happened! Miraculously, in 2 days the pains disappeared completely! Seeing this wonder, I decided to continue. Everything was going perfectly, when after about two weeks the pains reappeared just as strong. I fell from the rosy cloud I was floating on. Why? That I had only maintained the gluten-free diet! Really? That day I had been on a visit and then I reviewed what I had eaten: for the appetizer I had avoided pressed ham, cheese, but I had eaten some salami, which I don’t eat at home. I looked at the ingredients online and found food starch among the ingredients (if the source is not specified, there is a good chance it is from wheat). And I had only eaten a thin slice! The pain lasted 3-4 days and disappeared. Another time it happened to me from a piece of sausage. Finally, I documented myself better and continued. No pain whatsoever. After about two months I noticed that the asthmatic cough also disappeared, then the anxiety attacks and panic attacks. All of these were on the list of diseases caused by gluten. Unfortunately, the irritable bowel syndrome is still there, maybe the colon needs more time to recover or there are other things that trigger the crises. As for infertility…it’s too late for me. Find here (3) the list of diseases that can be triggered or maintained by gluten intolerance.
