Sorry it's all happening at once in this stressful way. I agree with Tex about your daughter - it certainly doesn't help the body to get super-stressed about anything, and for me that is a vicious circle... though it's possible that her anxiety would be easier to manage if she ate a "perfect" diet, but it will not help her to freak out about what that diet might be (anyway, it never helped me any!).
I'm sure you shared the information in the spirit that "knowledge is power" (and maybe even you could use a little sympathy yourself - I found those same genetic results to be quite a shocker myself). Hopefully she will come to see it in that light. It's great that she has no symptoms, and great she knows to look into this should anything arise that might be connected.
I hope the interview goes well and your whole family gets some stress relief. And you can carry on here any time you need to, with no need for apology.
Tex,
You have a point here:
- but I'd like to include the idea that it would take a super-smart customer to really grasp the implications, and give it a whirl. I am over-the-moon excited that a friend of mine had Enterolab test kits sent to her out-of-state family and is spending vacation time getting 2 of the kids tested (genes, too). I myself find you to be an outstanding salesperson of excellent ideas, and have never yet had buyer's remorse on anything I've 'bought' from youPersonally, I've never been able to persuade someone who was at high risk, but not symptomatic, to adopt the GF diet. It takes a super salesperson to sell that idea.
I did give GF a try on a hunch, but I think I was a ticking bomb by that point. It's possible that my February GF experiment kept my March 'crash' from turning into a true celiac crisis (I think I got closer to a hospital visit than I realized at the time). Had I known my genetics, would I have been more hard-core, sooner? I can't say for certain. I was already eating less gluten, but that's a long way from zero.
Denise, I'm going to pass your "breathe" suggestions also to my brother, who's packing for a move (following a marital split, so extra stress there). You're wise to let your daughter get through her wedding excitement... if she's told you she believes she's gluten intolerant, you know she's listening.
I believe that malabsorption of B vitamins (and probably others - including D, as Tex mentioned) might contribute to anxiety, or other symptoms that present in an emotional rather than physical way. And so many of us report that any life stress goes right to our gut... there is clearly a strong connection there. Not to mention the 'brain fog' (I will never forget that, and believe I've had milder versions of that coming and going my whole life)...
Love,
Sara
