Possible celiacs?

[heatherisadork]

I'm diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease and despite having my thyroid levels in range I'm still feeling down a lot of the time physically and mentally. My new endo ordered a series of blood test including an allergy test.

I tested extremely high as having a milk allergy, and moderately high for a gluten allergy as well as peanuts. I also have a low ferritin count (8).

I'm just a little concerned as I've read many people with celiacs probably have another autoimmune disorder (such as hashimoto's), are lactose intolerance until on a gluten free diet and the ville is able to heal, and have anemia.

Other symptoms I have include the following:
Chronic headaches (I almost always have a mild to sever headache)
Night blindness (and light sensitivity)
Increased blurryness in vision
Anxiety/depression
Strange appetite (some days I'm not hungry at all or can only eat a very small amount and other days I have a hunger that just wont go away)
Weakness
Chronic Fatigue
Heart Palpitations

And heres some of the more embarrassing symptoms
smelly gas
smell stool (usually floats and sticks to the toilet when I flush hahaha)
Sometimes I go a few days without having a BM and some days I'll have the runs in the morning.
Stomach ache (more like a burning feeling) most of the time although very mild and easy to tolerate.

[CalGal]

Give a gluten-free diet a try and see how many of those symptoms go away. Many of the things you're listing could very well be due to gluten issues, and i think you'll be surprised at how much better you'll feel over time being GF. The other thing that many celiacs have is cross-reactivity to the major protein in dairy, casein. So if you're 'allergy' is actually celiac disease (tested via IgA work), make sure you're also checked for cross-reactivity to casein.