medical stuff
I got the results of my colonoscopy back today. It turns out there is something wrong with me after all.
I have Celiac disease, or Sprue, or whatever you want to call it. Basically, it reacts with gluten, a really common protein found in wheat, flour, oats, ect. Then, it prevents the body from absorbing nutrients. And one of it's nasty little side effects is that it actually makes you hungry for that stuff after you eat it. So you eat more of it.
It has lots of other side effects, too, including my iron deficient anemia. It also stunted my growth, and kept me from really developing muscles. It causes depression. The disease also causes muscle fatigue, joint aches, and a huge apetite that borders on cravings to make up for the lack of nutrients. All of these fit me. Later on, the disease has a high probablility of causing intestinal cancer and osteoporosis.
There's no treatment for it. The only thing I can do is stop eating gluton. This means I can never eat things like bread, pizza, pasta, cake, ice cream, cookies, pancakes, cereal, crackers, soup, bagels, ect. In fact, I don't even know what I CAN eat, especially up here living off of cafeteria food. I have to go back home and meet with a nutritionist and a doctor sometime so they can tell me.
I'm supposed to join a support group, or something, which I find unbelieveable. I mean, I'm only 18!
Right now, I'm sitting in my dorm room going a little crazy. I haven't really explained this to my friends in real life, although my mom told my dad, who freaks out about things like this. I don't really know what I'm going to do, but right now I'm sitting here working myself up about not being able to have ice cream again.
I have Celiac disease, or Sprue, or whatever you want to call it. Basically, it reacts with gluten, a really common protein found in wheat, flour, oats, ect. Then, it prevents the body from absorbing nutrients. And one of it's nasty little side effects is that it actually makes you hungry for that stuff after you eat it. So you eat more of it.
It has lots of other side effects, too, including my iron deficient anemia. It also stunted my growth, and kept me from really developing muscles. It causes depression. The disease also causes muscle fatigue, joint aches, and a huge apetite that borders on cravings to make up for the lack of nutrients. All of these fit me. Later on, the disease has a high probablility of causing intestinal cancer and osteoporosis.
There's no treatment for it. The only thing I can do is stop eating gluton. This means I can never eat things like bread, pizza, pasta, cake, ice cream, cookies, pancakes, cereal, crackers, soup, bagels, ect. In fact, I don't even know what I CAN eat, especially up here living off of cafeteria food. I have to go back home and meet with a nutritionist and a doctor sometime so they can tell me.
I'm supposed to join a support group, or something, which I find unbelieveable. I mean, I'm only 18!
Right now, I'm sitting in my dorm room going a little crazy. I haven't really explained this to my friends in real life, although my mom told my dad, who freaks out about things like this. I don't really know what I'm going to do, but right now I'm sitting here working myself up about not being able to have ice cream again.