migraines
incredibly tired, always feel spent
painful blisters
lots of gas
frequent toilet visits
extended gut (even when i was a college athlete and in peak shape my stomache was never really cooperating with the rest of my physique - not like a big gut or anything but surprisingly extended compared to the rest)


i never knew because wheat is in everything and a lot of those things you can just normalize, in college i was actually diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and looking back on it that was the semester i was pretty much living off ramne

going to italy was what really set it off, went from an occasional thing i confused for cysts to full blown paranoia i had bed bugs because my ankles were covered in little blisters like this (not me, my legs are much sexier, finished 2nd place in a leg off once)


looking back on it now i've known people who had arms and legs like that which i just thought was acne but now i recognize it's a symptom of celiac disease (if you know people like that tell them to google celiac blisters and you'll change their lives)

but i thought it was from bed bugs, then while in staying on the red sea all we had was a kitchenette and the only shop for like 50 miles was limited so was basically eating a ton of bread of pasta every day and was constantly in the bathroom, always felt tired and had daily migraines but then those blisters showed up and they were all over my body - it was kind of terrifying

but that forced me to realize this was a thing and i should figure it out and that's how i found out

cut wheat out of my diet, shortly started feeling a ton of energy i never previously had, farts become highly uncommon, stomach pain disapeared, migraines ceased, stopped getting a random blister here or there that i confused as a zit/cyst - just feel 100% better