A few months later, I began to feel a strange sensation in my stomach area followed by bouts of dizziness and severe palpitations. I was losing weight at an alarming rate too.
It worsened quite quickly, nearly passing out 5-8 times every day, which in itself manifested into a troubling level of anxiety as i attempted to carry out my daily activities.
My energy levels were crashing too. I was in a bad way.
When my GP diagnosed me I was initially joyful to finally know what the problem was. But within minutes I realised my gut was telling me his diagnosis was wrong. It made no sense to my mind, I hadn't read or suspected anything to confirm his error, it was just my gut.
Turned out, his diagnosis was wrong, and so would his second, and the same with two other GP’s. I felt that same gut reaction after each one also.
A year passed by, I lost nearly 30 kilos, chronic fatigue and dizziness before I found the cause myself.
My system couldn't handle gluten. I had a gluten related disorder, as they call it.
I went gluten free but within days the symptoms returned.
My mind was confused but my gut said going gluten free was the right thing to do and to keep at it.
The quantity of gluten in food is measured in parts per million (ppm).
Any food with 20 ppm or less can legally be advertised as Gluten Free.
Then there's cross contamination, sure, there’s no gluten in corn but corn is handled in a facility that also handles wheat barley and rye, the gluten kingpins.
As soon as I learned to side step these risks and managed to stay Gluten Free, my health began the long road to recovery.
