What coeliac disease can involve
Coeliac disease is an autoimmune condition, not an intolerance: gluten causes the immune system to damage the lining of the small bowel. A strict gluten-free diet is the whole of the treatment, which sounds simple until you're reading the back of a packet in a supermarket, or working out whether the chips were fried in the same oil.
What people rarely mention is the tail. A reaction can arrive hours later and last for days, so the meal and the consequence feel disconnected. Fatigue, brain fog, mouth ulcers and joint aches ride along with the gut symptoms. Written down in one place, the pattern between what you ate and how the next two days went stops being guesswork.
Symptoms checklist
Coeliac disease symptoms checklist to take to your GP
Below are some of the symptoms associated with Coeliac disease. You can print the Coeliac disease checklist and weekly diary and fill it in by hand.
See what applies to you, note how often it happens, and take it to your appointment, so the conversation starts further along. It describes your experience. It does not say what is causing anything: having many of these does not mean you have Coeliac disease, and having few does not mean you do not. Only a clinician can work that out with you.
- Bloating
- Abdominal pain
- Diarrhoea
- Fatigue
- Nausea
- Brain fog
- Mouth ulcers
- Joint aches
- Something else I want to mention
Print the Coeliac disease checklist and weekly diary Download as PDF
The list comes from the NHS and charity sources linked further down this page, and from what people living with coeliac disease tell us they keep an eye on. It is a starting point, not a test.
How a day can feel
If your days sound anything like this, taluvu was made with you in mind.
- “I read every label twice and it still got me.”
- “People think gluten-free is a preference. It's my whole week.”
- “The reaction comes the next day, so I never know what did it.”
- “Eating out is a risk assessment, not a treat.”
- “I'm tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix.”
These are the kinds of things taluvu invites you to say in your own words, never a checklist of what anyone “should” have.
