Question: I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease 13 years ago. I had become violently ill while going to school and went in to see a doctor. They ran some test and had found some damage in my small intestine that they said was not major but could be crohns disease. They also concluded that I had IBS. The first few years I did my treatments, but the treatment seemed to make my condition worst. So I stopped, I started a food journal and began to cut out all the foods that seemed to make me sick. Within the first year I had managed to cut out all the foods that made me sick and was able to manage my crohn's disease completely through diet. As long as I follow a strict gluten free diet I control my symptoms and managed to stay totally med free in regards to my crohn's disease. If I eat any gluten I find that I get extremely bloated, constipated, headaches, body aches, muscles cramps and spasms, and the list goes on. The last couple of years I started to suspect that That there was a possibility that I was misdiagnosed since all other I have met with crohn's can't seem to completely "cure" their disease with diet alone. I am wondering and beginning to think I need to go and get other test done to see if my suspicions are true, but to be honest am a little worried since I haven't really been able to get doctors to listen to me in the past. So I was hoping that a doctor here could give me some good advice on how to go in and tell a doctor that I suspect that a mistake could have been made and what I may actually be suffering from, cause I no longer think it is crohn's disease. Thank you

Thank you for such a fast and complete answer. It has helped a lot. I am wondering if they are going to have to make me eat any gluten food in order to do any of the new test. I would if I had too, but any foods containing gluten cause such terrible responses in my body that the idea of doing it causes a lot of fear and stress.