How eating bread turned me into a physical wreck

By ALEX GAZZOLA
Last updated at 7:58 AM on 24th May 2011

Katrina Robinson was one of the estimated half-a-million Britons living with undiagnosed coeliac disease Migraines, depression, ME, heart problems, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease - these are just some of the conditions Katrina Robinson was diagnosed with over a ten-year period as she struggled with dizziness, fatigue and muscle ache.

At least these doctors took her symptoms seriously; others implied her problem was all in the mind. ‘Some made me feel like a hypochondriac,’ says the 46-year-old solicitor from Twickenham, London. ‘They told me to take a holiday.’

In fact, Katrina’s health was slowly being destroyed by her diet. She was one of the estimated half-a-million Britons living with undiagnosed coeliac disease - caused when gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye and barley, triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to attack the gut lining. This causes inflammation and the lining to erode.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1390250/How-eating-bread-turned-physical-wreck.html#ixzz1NNFWbHs4

LOL my Mum brought that article over today and I had to inform her that I was tested for this last year.

I think she was a little disappointed I didn't have coeliac disease...I feel she felt it was a less embarrassing ailment than saying her daughter had CM.

Jane
xx