LIVING WITH MULTIPLE HEALTH PROBLEMS: MY STORY

LAST REVIEWED 19/03/2018

My name is Kirsty, and I am 29 years old. Like many people with chronic illness, I don’t have a definite time when it all started. It just sort of crept up on me.

I have had bowel and stomach symptoms since I was a baby, including projectile vomiting. When I was 17 years old, I went to the doctor again with symptoms. The locum doctor I saw tested me for coeliac disease. The blood test came up positive and I had an endoscopy in late 2005, which confirmed a diagnosis of coeliac disease.