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Receiving an official diagnosis by a doctor for celiac is not always possible. Although my wife's doctor considered it a possibility that she was celiac, he did not do anything with that idea until she had tried being gluten free already for a few months and found that it helped her intense pain.

The test for celiac requires a person to have been eating regular amounts of gluten for 3 months before the test is done. When my wife is in a position such that a crumb of normal bread in her meal can cause her pain afterwards, there is no way she can eat gluten for 3 months in order to get a diagnosis by a doctor. The best she can get now is a statement that she is sensitive to gluten - but that sensitivity is enough that she can't have food cooked in the same pan as your food when you don't give any consideration to her.

So don't say this is "bullshit food intolerances" - just because you don't have to deal with it does not mean that it is not real.