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Hey there,

Welcome to the website - I am sorry to hear that you are feeling so poorly and you haven't managed to find much relief yet.
I do think only a few days on the diet is not enough time to give it a chance to work, but I can understand how difficult it is to be patient and wait for something to possibly work.
I hear ya on the embarassing gas problem, that was never a major symptom of mine (it was a minor one, though) but lately I have found it is getting worse and worse so I will let you know if I find anything that seems to tame that beast.
Have you tried taking things like GasX or similar medication that is supposed to help with gas? I take this sometimes and it seems to help.
Especially if you are vegetarian, you may be eating too many gas producing vegetables that make it harder to control. All the sulfur veggies (onions, etc) give me worse gas, as well as things like brocolli.
If you know that wheat products make it worse, I wouldn't care what the blood test says and I would try living on a strictly wheat/gluten free diet and see how you get on with that. I did read somewhere that while the blood test is fairy accurate, the only way to really know is to have some of scope or swab or something, go wheat/gluten free for 6 months, have another scobe or swab or whatever it is, and then add wheat back in and have the test the third time and they can then tell what it does to your body. I don't know if this is 100% accurate, though. I would listen to your body; If you cut out all wheat and gluten and feel better, that's your answer. Or at least, part of it.
I also find dairy products give me a problem in this area, so I dunno if you have cut these out yet but you may want try that as well.

Good for you for going to get a colonoscopy done. I would make sure they have done a full blood panel to test your liver, thyroid, etc(which it seems they have if they tested you for celiac), a small bowel follow through, upper GI and the breast test for h.y. pylori or whatever it's called.

I would also keep a food diary (*especially* if you are going to try any elimiation diets) with symptoms and see if you pinpoint some of the things that are especially hard for you to digest.

Good luck, let us know how you get on.

Steph

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~~I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell-I know right now you can't tell~~Matchbox 20
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