If you or someone you love has been recently diagnosed with coeliac disease, you could be eligible to receive gluten free foods on prescription. Simply select your country of residence, and, if you live in England, fill in your postcode to check if your area is prescribing.
Your country is prescribing gluten free foods*. Request your Glutafin Taster Box by clicking the button below to sign up.
* Please note: local policies are constantly updated, and issuing a prescription is at the discretion of your GP.
My diagnosis story started in 1992, when I was 21, although I had had blood tests done when I was little, as my Mam was diagnosed in her 30’s, Coeliac was never detected. I started suffering with tummy aches, headaches, nausea, diarrhoea around 1992, it was having an effect on my health. I was at college at this time, & was on placement in a school, I would go home during breaks, because I couldn’t use the toilet in the school, because of smell when I had to go, it made me uncomfortable. It was around this time when I started having blood tests taken, this went on till 2007. All gave a negative result, eventually I had a negative/positive result, I was put on a gluten free diet, a week before I had an endoscopy I was told to eat gluten. I had the test came back negative. I was told by the Dr to eat gluten for 4/5 months, when I had another endoscopy done, 6 bites of my gut was taken, I was then diagnosed with coeliac disease.
I found it really hard adjusting, as everything I ate at this time, pretty much included gluten, wheat, barley etc, from cereals, bread to soup, my favourite breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat & Weetabix, I drank Horlicks, Ovaltine & Robinsons orange barley, I think it took over 6 months to adjust, & even then I would slip to old eating habits, like fish finger sandwiches.
My 3 tips would be,
1) Read a lot about your condition and being diagnosed with coeliac disease, especially what grains you can & cannot eat
2) Take each day at a time, it’s a difficult adjustment to make, stock up on fresh fruit, vegetables, rice, GF pasta, although it’s a difficult time, concentrating on what you can eat will help, write a list to take shopping
3) Join Coeliac UK, the book you receive will help you no end, join groups in your area they will encourage & help you on your ‘diagnosed with coeliac disease’ journey, remember there’s a lot you can’t eat now, but equally there is so much you can enjoy as well
My favourite recipes are Tomato & basil bread, fresh cream Victoria sponge, ice slices.
If you or someone you love has been recently diagnosed with coeliac disease, you could be eligible to receive gluten free foods on prescription. Simply select your country of residence, and, if you live in England, fill in your postcode to check if your area is prescribing.
Your country is prescribing gluten free foods*. Request your Glutafin Taster Box by clicking the button below to sign up.
* Please note: local policies are constantly updated, and issuing a prescription is at the discretion of your GP.
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