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Message: <blockquote data-quote="suzi" data-source="post: 29853" data-attributes="member: 11767">Hi Alba,I'm dreading Andrew hitting the teens, all those hormones to deal with. Andrew tested positive for coeliac disease through a yearly routine blood test in feb 07 exactly 1 year after finding out he was diabetic. For some reason i took the coeliac news worse, though so many things added up. We reckon he was coeliac long before the diabetes. From the age of 3 he had painful legs, caught every cold going, had his tonsils out at 4 and 2 teeth out  6 months later with a severe dose of chicken pox in between, plus he was so skinny. Always managed to have a dose of the runs fortnightly and tummy pains, always put it down to bugs at school.I hope your son doesn't test positive, but if he does i'm here for you, cos it's a whole new ballgame. Sometimes a blood test can be a false /positive, if unsure ask for the endoscopy (tube down throat under sedation, biopsy of gut taken for testing, in and out within couple of hours, no side effects)Here in northern ireland for every 10 diabetic children 1 will also be coeliac, and unfortunately it was mine! But we manage, good luck with results hope there negative, though i know that'll mean why the symptons? and more worry.Let me know who he gets onSuzi x</blockquote>

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