Ben Hi – I am Ben, a 9-year-old who was diagnosed with coeliac when I was three years old. Before I was diagnosed some of the key symptoms (mine weren’t tummy related) were that I was very fatigued and when I woke up, I needed to go back to bed. Some of my...
David I’ve only been recently diagnosed with CD and my symptoms were unusual. I suffered vertigo-like episodes and a neurologist couldn’t figure out what was wrong until he ran blood tests....
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Lucia After my diagnosis, I was told I needed to have my children tested. Lucia tested positive and Holly tested negative and didn’t even have the gene. No surprise really as Lucia had started to become ill after I introduced solids at six months. Prior to...
Mary A I was diagnosed aged 40, over 30 years ago. My main symptoms were gastrointestinal problems, particularly griping stomach pains. I did have occasional severe diarrhoea episodes and also severe vomiting episodes, but the worst was the almost...
Kerryn For my kids who have coeliac disease, they weren’t diagnosed until 14 years and 10 years of age (daughter and son). My daughter always had low iron and it didn’t trigger to me as I have low iron as do my sisters and mother, so I...
Barbara My symptoms were totally asymptomatic. I had a sensation of a lump in my throat which would not go away, but I had no problem swallowing. I went for all the usual scans in case i had something sinister and nothing showed up, but the symptoms continued. My...
Ward My GP noticed a dramatic decline in my iron levels in my annual blood test about 18 months ago (I was 78). He assumed it was from bleeding in the bowel and sent me for a colonoscopy. The colonoscopy showed my bowels were fine, so the surgeon who had previous...
Sally I’d had type 1 diabetes since childhood, and a couple of years after I’d had my child my iron levels came back on the low side, so my endocrinologist insisted that we test for coeliac disease. When it came back positive, I didn’t believe...
