much ado about wheat

In my ongoing quest to get to the bottom of what has been making me feel tired, sluggish, and brain-fogged for so long, I am being sent for a test to see if I have celiac disease. In order for the test to be accurate, though, I have to go eat a lot of wheat so that intestinal damage and blood antibodies to wheat protein can be observed during the test.

About three weeks ago I figured out that if I cut out all sources of wheat I felt great - energetic, alert and organized, and the reactive hypoglycemia that has been plaguing me for years completely went away. I eagerly rushed out to both of the gluten-free bakeries in the Vancouver area and stocked up on goodies. Now I need to leave those things untouched in the freezer while I make myself feel sick and tired for a couple of weeks. I'm trying to make the best of it and use this as an opportunity to eat some things that I will likely not be eating again in the near future - tortellini, ice cream sandwiches, and that yummy "Farmer's Market" brand Summer Harvest fruit pie.

I'm not sure how I will feel if, after all this, I end up with a negative test result. It's not like it's such a cake walk (ha ha) to be diagnosed with an illness that requires a very strict diet for life. But it would be such a relief to finally be able to point to a "real" diagnosis and say "here is what is making me feel rotten". I haven't posted much on here about this, but I've been to six different doctors in the past year, and still haven't found one who will take me seriously. Almost all of them told me this is just stress and that I need to relax or, in one case, take antidepressant medication. The woman I saw last week was the most promising doctor so far so keep your fingers crossed for me that she continues to be helpful, regardless of the blood test results.