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~february 2014 i started eating fruit only i pooped basically after every meal, pooping out the meal before looking the same as it went in, but with a brown tan.

~june 2014 started eating white rice and lettuce in evening stool still good.

~august 2014 i tested B12 and thyroid, B12 was <37 which i supplement now, but doesn't have much to do with these questions.. the thyroid was good.. probably somewhere around this time or a bit later i started eating things like whole wheat pizza or more cooked food in general in the evening (raw till 4).. stool still good.

~october-december 2014 or so in hospital in search for a reason of B12 shortage they also tested thyroid which was good (TSH 2.56 mU/l). stool was still good.

~somewhere in the beginning of 2015 my digestive system started to degenerate, stool became very little with effort, also smelly gassiness.

~may 2015 i theorized celiac dissease that it was because of the introduction of gluten and that celiac was also the cause of my lifelong genetic B12 shortage, so i stopped eating gluten, nothing changed though.

~october 2015 i went to a different hospital to find out what was wrong with my intestines, be it celiac or something else.. at first they did a lot of blood testing of which everything was good, except my thyroid (TSH 5.2 mU/l, free T4 was on the low end (as far as i have googled standard values) 10.4 pmol/l), which was retested to verify in december, but still the same. stool was also tested for all sorts of things but nothing was wrong, so no signs of chrons dissease or anything.

~january 2016 they took some tissue from my small intestine with a duodenoscopy. i also let my vitamin D be tested at my doctor, which was low (43nmol/l or ~17ng/ml) and i'm now supplementing.

In the meantime i did my research on the thyroid and my conclusion is that not gluten were the cause of my digestive problems, but the lack of iodine due to a higher intake of goitrogenic foods, causing my thyroid not being able to produce enough hormones. And cause i refuse to limit goitrogenic foods, i should take care of an adequate iodine intake.. at the moment i'm adding iodized kitchen salt here and there, i've also bought nori but i'm not going to eat that.. it smells and tastes like rotten fish.

As far as results of the added iodine through kitchen salt.. after the first day my stool was how i like to see it, however the day after was sort of diarrhea and after that it was back to how it was.. but yesterday and today it has been how it should again, i'm just not cheering yet till this has kept on for a week.

But how would you supply the iodine? buy a supplement seems to be the easiest i think and better then eating iodized kitchen salt..?

~basically now a week ago because i didn't get any results or anything i called my doctor to see if she got something.. and she had so i requested the lettres from both hospital visits.. but as far as the tissue goes there were no signs of inflammation whatsoever, but what brings in the confusion for as far if i can consume gluten or not is concerned is that it also said that my HLA DQ2/DQ typing was DQ2, DQ5, which apparently means a high risk for celiac and the lettre says that despite that at the moment no celiac could be diagnozed.

But does this mean i can eat gluten or does this mean that my intestines were just not inflamed cause i hadn't eaten gluten for months?. anyway, being able to eat gluten would make the cost of living a lot lower, since i pay 3,89 euro for a 500g bag of gluten free pasta compared to 79 cents for a 500g bag of wheat pasta (in both cases organic).