James I am Jim and was diagnosed as a Coeliac in 2004 at age 61. Previously, our youngest daughter was diagnosed and as a family, we had an awareness that other family members were also coeliacs. Those people were my wife’s uncle and cousin so that was not my...
Shirley As well as having pain in the gut as stated in the survey, I was also using my iron stores. I was on 6 and normal is 350. When I had my gastroscopy and colonoscopy, I also had a 3-hour Iron infusion.
Larissa I had been suffering from low iron for 16 years and visited two doctors at that time no cause was ever mentioned. After moving down the south coast and donating blood and told my iron was low. And after visiting a new doctor, testing...
Angela In 1991 I started feeling exhausted, I had headaches and had brain fog. I went back and forth to my GP who told me: ‘I should rest if I feel tired’. My GP eventually sent me to hospital to see a specialist. After going to hospital regularly for 2...
Rachael I started with chronic hives when I was 18. I was getting recurrent thrush infections from age 21. By 23 I was having trouble losing weight despite exercising 5-6 days per week. At 24 I started getting inflammatory/hormonal symptoms like...
Senja In a nutshell, I wasn’t concerned about any gastro-intestinal issues (although in hindsight I was experiencing some) but got concerned about my consistently high heart rate at the gym, and how it sometimes took a long time to settle afterwards. GP ordered...
