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[quote=Anonymous]Plus one for celiac panel. That would explain the migraines, anxiety, panic attacks, GERD, and also painful periods. Do you have any autoimmune in your family, "touchy stomachs", etc.?

Also plus one for caution on antianxiety meds. My celiac kid was diagnosed after way too many years chasing down the wrong neuro/psych paths for issues very much like those described here. A few weeks after diagnosis, she was put on citalopram since the anxiety didn't clear up immediately after going gluten-free. (In retrospect, her doctors were clueless - of course it didn't clear up immediately, her numbers were literally off the charts. JFC, doctors can be clueless.) The meds may have helped a little (hard to tell), but I'm fairly confident that it also exacerbated (vs helped) her reaction to a gluten exposure during that time -- and tapering off was a **nightmare**, really really horrible (and the doctors refused to recognize that the issue was discontinuation - they clearly thought it was just the anxiety coming back as we reduced citalopram dosage, but there were a whole new set of symptoms (dizziness, nausea) that weren't there before and the irritability was AWFUL. It sucked.

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