Normal

[tamago]

I think the worst question a doctor can ask anyone who comes to them for treatment is, "Is everything else normal?"

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[tamago]

Absolutely! I'm slowly getting it through my thick skull that, like the Unfuck Your Habitat manifesto that nobody deserves to live in a filthy stinking pit, nobody deserves to be miserable from poor health symptoms all the time. I am allowed to keep trying doctors until I find one who can help. Having a "cheat sheet" of symptoms to look at helped me look at my health a lot more objectively, but it didn't change what I feel or what I've been experiencing. It just helped me put it into words doctors understand.

Right now, I don't think I'm going to be too surprised by a diagnosis either way. Either I'm celiac, and a lot of my lifelong symptoms suddenly make a lot more sense, or I'm not celiac, I'm "just" dealing with food allergies, and a lot of my lifelong symptoms suddenly make a lot more sense. For me, personally, the diagnosis doesn't change what I'm going to do in the short term (cut wheat/gluten from my diet) but a celiac diagnosis for me does have the potential to improve Teo's quality of life, or my brothers' or maybe my parents, by giving them a reason to get tested and encourage hurried doctors to take another look at their "unexplainable" symptoms.

[tamago]

And it's easier to rule celiac in or out now, when I'm eating gluten and the blood test is fairly reliable than it would be if I'd been off gluten for a while. So, just in terms of logical order of operations, it makes sense to do this.

[aberdeen]

Yes. Definitely. Here's hoping for a useful diagnosis, soon. (:

[tamago]

Got my blood drawn today. I should have some more information in a week.