Interesting.

How were you diagnosed with celiac? By blood test? While most peiople who coem back with a positive anti-transglutaminase IgA test are labelled celiac, the current gold standard for a full celiac diagnosis, as opposed to a gluten-sensitive one, is villous atrophy with autoimmune infiltrate upon small intestinal biopsy. And finding this is more an art than a science--it would be easy to miss for those who are not well-versed in the particular pathology or in reading the slides.


While there have been some anecdotal reports that celiac autoimmune symptoms can be triggered by other insults--viral, bacterial, autoimmune attacks (such as happen with MS), many others would probably lean to the idea than you always had a gluten intolerance--you were just not diagnosed until recently. This is not unusual, as until recnetly many doctors thought this was a very rare condition--we now know it's much more common--and didn't think to test for it, despite the fact that symptoms can include neurological as well as gastric disruption. And that includes the type of central nervous system "plaquing" that might usually be thought to be MS--in fact, a common celiac symptom is cerebellar ataxia.

If you haven't yet, you should come on over to thre celiac/gluten sensitivity forum here and read, read, read--especially jccglutenfree's The Gluten File--probably the most comprehensive database on the condition yet developed:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum13.html

http://jccglutenfree.googlepages.com/