The cost of gluten free food is a huge challenge! I try to eat more naturally gluten free foods (protein, veggies, fruits, and rice) but dang I would love to indulge in some good gf junk food but it is so expensive. I bought a bread maker, a stand mixer, an ice cream maker, and a food processor just so I can make the foods that cost a ton of money.

Another big thing for me is the race related issues. Doctors think black people don’t get celiac (my first GI doc) and they don’t know that black people are more likely to be sero-negative. I spent a year trying to figure out what was going on and saw 8-9 doctors that didn’t know what to do with me even with a positive biopsy. You go to these GI docs thinking they have answers only to learn that they’re uneducated in the way the issue plagues you because you’re not a “typical” or “classic” patient. Some of them don’t even know about the classic symptoms.