I think it is one of those things, where attitude goes a long way, because as far as curve balls live throws at you go, coeliac disease really is pretty easily dealt with and, more importantly, the negative effects to your body entirely avoidable when cared for properly. There is a huge amount of industry effort spent in that field thanks to a lot of people talking themselves out of gluten due to various real and made up reasons, which makes substitutes for most things readily available (albeit still at a pretty steep premium).

The shittiest part really is the whole disease flying below the radar for so long and people suffering severe pain and internal damage years or even decades on end. Due to awareness having increased immensely that should thankfully happen less and less from here on out.

We've found doctors to be pretty clueless on it, sadly... Which I guess is par for the course.

When you learn what it is that is keeping you in constant agony, it's surprisingly easy to give up, even if frustrating. ;)

Undoubtedly. It's come in other forms for me. I'm all the more grateful that all wheat/gluten does is make me fatter.