>>16905970Stop with this meme.
It sounds 100% like "adult onset celiac disease", to a tee. It was activated about a year ago due a big shock to her immune system from moving to a new office with an extremely heavy environmental allergen load of termites and mold. The wild allergic reactions to foods that had her swelling up like a lobster were her body's last-ditch immune system reactions trying to fight the gluten but hurting itself in the process, and the tummy hort was the gluten allergen response shredding her intestines, bit by bit, day by day. This is about the right timeframe for the intestinal damage to have accumulated to the point where vitamin intake from food is compromised, leading to her current issue of malaise and extreme lethargy.
"But didn't she test negative?" The screening test that came back negative was performed improperly (no gluten challenge) and isn't a very sensitive test to begin with, a definitive yes or no requires a biopsy of the intestine, which was not done.
"So what now?" Ame gets a blood test to assess what vitamins are necessary and starts taking those, alleviating the lethargy within a few days (if they get the vitamins right). Ame gets a biopsy to confirm celiac disease and commits to a strict gluten-free diet, alleviating tummy hort almost immediately, and allowing her intestines to heal. In about 6 months' time it will be as healed as it's going to get and she should be able to get all her vitamin needs from food at that point (although there's no harm in continuing to take vitamins imo).
