Day fifty two: Christmas Eve

Back to health issues today because last night was bad. I didn't get to sleep until 2:30am and then I was awake around 5am. The pains were very bad.

Anyway, I was going to write about this even if I had slept, because I read the Gastroscopy Report again last night. This is the camera down the throat one!

I saw something I hadn't seen on it before. It says: "Duodenal tract appeared flattened". That concerned me because in 1998 that is what they found when they diagnosed me with coeliac disease. I was healed of this, so I thought.

Here's my reasons for believing the healing:

1. I was severely anaemic (my blood count was 8.5, which for a 36 year old, as I was, is bad). The doctor asked me how I was able to keep upright.

2. I weighed 9.5 stone. For our American readers, that's 133lbs. When I went onto the gluten-free diet, I weighed 10:5 stone, in a a few months. That's 147lbs.

3. I was also diagnosed with Osteopenia, which is early osteoporosis. Two of my vertebrae were crumbling and my left hip was crumbling. The hip and the osteopenia are on my medical record. When I experimented, with the help of my GP, 4 years after the diagnosis, he found no coeliac antibodies in my blood stream after me eating bread, cake and biscuits for 2 weeks. We repeated the tests 2 weeks later and then every year for the next 4 years. I didn't have coeliac disease, and I put on an extra 7lbs! I was then 11 stone; I am now 12 stone (168lbs). I am not losing weight as I would with coeliac disease. It was in November 2019 that I had a bone-density scan in Lymington Hospital. There was no osteopenia and no crumbling vertebrae or hip. I was definitely healed of that, although it took 15 years before I got round to getting that checked!

4. So, I was diagnosed as anaemic last April when I first went to see the doctor, but it was not that severe. I don't have any symptoms of coeliac disease, except abdominal pains. So was I healed of coeliac disease and osteopenia, but not of whatever it is that has flattened the duodenal tract? I discovered, on my medical record, that I was diagnosed with oesophagitis in 1999. No one told me and I was given no medication for it. So why did it go away, or was it healed, or did it not go away, but now it has appeared with a more severe case?

I don't know!

But after my CT scan on Saturday I will know if there is anything else wrong; after my appointment on the 13th January I will discover if my prostate has been causing the problems.

And when I have my next blood test to see if my cholesterol is down I will ask for a coeliac blood test to see if there are any antibodies in my blood stream.

And when this is all over I am donating my body to science!

Well, maybe not.

It's Christmas and I biscuits and cake to eat, so let's not be negative.

Ad tomorrow I'll be all about Christmas!