You are what you eat.

I’m still far from 100% but I’ve come leaps and bounds.

I’ve hinted for a while now that I may not be telling you all something. The stress of it all has been getting the better of me lately so I think I may spill the beans. Outside of family no one knows, not even our closest friends.

The subject has a stigma attached to it so I’ve been avoiding telling anyone at all costs. I don’t want anyone to be shunned by ignorance. Unfortunately in this mess my own stress has (and will continue to be) been pushed aside and I need some sort of outlet.

Are there things in your life that you keep secret from those closest to you? This blog for example, my ‘in real life’ friends know nothing about it.

What don’t you talk about?

I want to write about my experiences because maybe it will help someone else. It took me 30 years to find a diagnosis and if I can help even one person from suffering the same fate then I’m happy.

This list is a hard one to write. I’m still on my way to recovery and won’t feel ‘normal’ for a couple of years yet but I still have always known things weren’t right. I don’t even know what normal is so this list may grow yet as I discover what things improve even if I don’t recognize them as a problem now.

I finally have an official diagnosis for what has made my 30 years of life miserable. It IS Celiac Disease. The biopsy I had showed total villous atrophy. That means that every single nutrient absorbing hair in my intestine has been completely destroyed.