<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Hi Listmates. I have been on this list now for about 10 days or so and always look forward to what may be in my email box next. So I am new at this stuff and not too computer literate. I have been a celiac all of my 55 years having almost died as a baby when started on cereals. I am learning more about this the last few days than I ever knew before and not a minute too soon. So, are there many of you out there my age that were diagnosed as celiac when they didn't even know what that meant? And if you lived , you had grown out of it? ..and henceforth have been poisoning yourself most of your life, not knowing it and always wondered what was the matter with you?.. having told anywhere that health history was taken that you were celaic as a child and having most medical professionals knowing nothing about it?.. and thinking that pain and not feeling well was just a part of life.. I would be interested in hearing some stories of people my age. It is so strange now when I think of some of the comments I make..like- I feel starved all the time! or another..I always feel best when I don't eat!..which of couse didn't happen too often as I was always starving! Now it all fits..I can't believe I have survived this long . Good Health to you all.. Donna