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[quote=Anonymous]Seconding the recommendation to ask about bloodwork for celiac *before* eliminating gluten (wheat, barley, rye, any oats that aren't marked GF) from your diet. If you eliminate gluten first, then any subsequent testing will be unreliable unless/until you're back on it for several weeks.

Celiac is widely underdiagnosed in the US, probably because doctors used to be taught that it was rare (it's not - it's about 1% of the population) and were only taught the "classic" symptoms; in reality, it can present with no symptoms or any combo of ~200. Sometimes it'll send you to the bathroom within an hour, like the PP; other times, you won't know until you have a migraine/backache/weird poop/super irritability/bloating/random rash the next day, and then it's CSI: Gluten Edition time. (Two of my family members are celiac and their presentations are quite different.) 
More info: 
- celiac.org
- beyondcelliac.org

(IBS posters - just curious: did your doctors test you to rule out celiac before deciding it was IBS?)

Hope you're able to get a solution and feel better soon!

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