Autoimmune Diseases=Celiac and Crohn's?
I have had Celiac for a little over a year now and recently (around 3 months ago) I have become very fatigued, loss of energy, diarrhea daily (almost everytime after I eat) and blood in my stool. I was researching and found that these are all symptoms of Crohn's Disease. Is it possible that I have developed it or even had it all along? Any other suggestions?
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Autoimmune diseases do accompany other ones .... ex Hashimoto's Autoimmune Thyroiditis.
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It is possible, yes. They do go together, as does Sjogren's syndrome, another auto-immune disorder. Pancreatic insufficiency can be worth checking, too.
Another idea I would check first, though, would be to recheck your celiac disease to make sure it's not the problem.
1. Have you had a recheck yet, blood test and internal biopsy, to see if you have healed? If not, find a doctor who will do that. A recent survey found that doctors are really dropping the ball on helping make sure Celiacs are healing as they should. You need to get your vitamins tested periodically, get this recheck on healing 6-12 months after you went gluten free, and keep tabs on certain organs that can have more problems from nutritional deficiencies. If you haven't healed completely this could be part of the problem.
2. MANY celiacs have your scenario happen, exactly as you've said. They are diagnosed, they go gluten free, and then within a few months to a few years (usually 3-5 years) they start feeling sick again. It's not uncommon. Sometimes the symptoms may not be quite what they were, or a more severe form of what they used to have. What many of them discover is that they have grown more sensitive to gluten and now have to be 'more' gluten free than they were.
People who can eat any foods labeled gluten free may have to switch to gluten free AND in from a gluten free facility. People who easily eat in a family that has gluten around start reacting to the cross contamination present in the kitchen and have to start cooking with more care and less shared utensils. People who eat GF food that is certified and from a gluten free facility may have to drop processed GF food entirely and start making food from scratch.
I have 4 celiacs in my family. So far, three of the four of us have had this occur, and the other one is starting to suspect he may be having the same issue. It might be worth considering befor eyo get checked for Crohn's
3. You're gluten free food may no longer be as GF as it used to be. With the recession, a lot of companies are changing ingredients or closing down factories and combining equipment lines. With my family, in the last 2 years we've had 2 companies' products start making us sick that had been safe before. They had both closed down their GF facilities and were now making GF food on the same line as food that contained wheat, and it was no longer working for us. So, might be worth double checking your food, make sure it's still gluten free.
4. I have been seeing a slowly growing group of celiacs on various forums who are getting sick after they go gluten free and it turns out to be ALL grains. Once they drop all grains from their diet, they recover. This has happened to two of the 4 celiacs in my family, as well. Weird, stuff.
5. You might have developed an intolerance or allergy. Mild allergies often just cause gut distress (like hay-fever on your insides) but no hives. There are seldom accurate tests for these, just elimination diets and food journals.
Oh, one last tip! If your doctor never told you, you should know this: with celiac disease in the family, your close relatives are now in a higher risk category, 10 times more likely to have or develop celiac disease. Other relatives are 5 times more like (like cousins and such). It is recommended by experts that ALL relatives of a celiac get tested for this disease, and then retested every 2-5 years if they get a negative results. The disease can do damage before obvious symptoms are present, so in this way the disease can be caught hopefully before too much damage is done.
If you think you have Crohn's disease I'd suggest posting at http://www.crohnsforum.com/ which is a huge support group for people with CD. They'd probably be able to steer you in the right direction.
no it's actually when the attraction area in the hypothalamus that develops during the first 3 months is exposed to hormones that makes that area in the brain to become more like that of a person of the opposite gender. it's all brain structure that developed way before you were born. this is backed up by numerous brain scans as well as studies about the olfactory system and how lesbians brains respond to female pheromones but not male pheromones and this is backed up by mri brain scans. google it.