My hypoglycemia improved dramatically when I went off gluten but it's by no means gone. Celiac disease affects many bodily systems. If you're young these systems can recover quickly but if you're older, I was diagnosed at 50, so it's taking me longer. The key to healing hypoglycemia is to eat regularly and eat on time to avoid stressing your body. The less stress, the more healing.

We're talking about two related problems:

1. Gluten sensitivity is a non-autoimmune "attack", like when undigested gluten attacks pancreas nerves, and causes them to flood the blood with insulin.

2. Gluten intolerance is the autoimmune reaction to a gluten sensitivity attack. In the case of a pancreas attack, the gluten intolerance reaction would kill the pancreas nerves, causing type 1 diabetes.

Celiac disease is a gluten intolerance disease, where the immune system tries to kill the small intestine lining of a gluten sensitive person.

You can have gluten-sensitive hypoglycemia without a gluten-intolerance autoimmune reaction ...........without celiac disease or type 1 diabetes.

It often results in metabolic syndrome .......type 2 diabetes and elevated cholesterol, sometimes advancing to atherosclerosis and arthritic conditions.

Where did you find the home Celiac test? Is it expensive?

The tests all test for gluten-intolerance autoimmune reactions. If a test is positive it means the patient has an autoimmune reaction to gluten.

A patient with a negative test result can still be under attack by gluten, and can still have gluten sensitivity-caused hypoglycemia and metabolic syndrome. Non-autoimmune gluten sensitivity is probably far more prevalent than gluten intolerance autoimmunity.

There is no medical test for gluten sensitivity. Stop ingesting gluten and sugar for about three weeks and see how you respond. Then challenge yourself again with gluten and sugar. See how you respond.

I shouldn't have to tell you what to do if gluten and sugar are making you sick.

I'm going to do just that. Thanks for your advice.