The Dreaded Diagnosis

Alright. I have finally made it to my GI appointment.
 It was actually pretty boring, he just asked me a bunch of questions about my symptoms, and then suggested we do a colonoscopy...and an upper endoscopy... Two fun words that I didn't know what I was in for.  First off, if you are young enough and have never needed a colonoscopy, you know they give you this gallon of nasty stuff that you have to drink.  Fun fact, I couldn't drink anything accept water without getting an upset stomach.  So trying to down a gallon of nasty potty activator is difficult. I tried putting it in water, juice, milk, soda, and anything else you can think of.  Needless to say, it didn't go over very well and I couldn't finish the that jug.  I was up all night too trying to do this, because you can't go to sleep the night before since you will be up going to the bathroom all night.
I went to my appointment the next day, and of course they put you under, and they stick tubes down my throat and in my bottom.  After I woke up and came to, they told me they could not do the colonoscopy due to my colon not being clean enough, which of course I couldn't drink that nasty stuff, so I was very nervous I was going to have to try this again.

Good News: I did not have to have do another colonoscopy!
Bad News:  I had Celiac's disease.
I remember on my way home I was very bummed. I knew the basics of what I couldn't eat. First of all being flour. That was the extent of my knowledge.  So in a protest on the way home from the hospital we stopped and got KFC. Sort of like a going away party for everything that I was going to have to give up.

Here's the fun thing, and by fun, I mean not fun.  The GI doc literally just told me, you have Celiac don't eat gluten again, have a nice day.  WHAT?! What does that mean?  What is gluten?  What happened to my body? How did I get it? 

Its hard to find a good doctor, and in our small town there are not a lot of other options to try and fit your needs.  What is sadly super common however, in the medical field, is the LACK of information.  Why can't we explain things to people? Why am I required to ask the questions when I don't even know what questions to fully ask. I have no idea what Celiac actually means.   We depend too much on medication, because we want instant gratification, instant relief. Everything we do comes at a price. Not only have we ourselves created it this way because of our demands, but the medical/pharmaceutical companies have also because of greed.  I'm not saying this is everybody across the board but it is a majority in our society today.   Celiac's wasn't a widely diagnosed allergy because there is no medicine you can take to make you feel better! So there is little research in it because there is no money in it!
Thankfully I have a mom who is really good a researching to help me find out what it means to have this allergy.
I still was not prepared for what was a head of me.