For me the problem was that there was no obvious reason for my wrists or knees to be hurting. I wasn't at a desk typing or running and that's why it took so long to figure out the issue. I actually still don't even know what the issue is technically. My mom has celiac and mentioned that before she was diagnosed she had bad joint pains she had just associated with getting older that went away after changing her diet. I had been meaning to get tested for a while since I had other issues and I decided to this time before spending hundreds on physio that might not be necessary. Well getting the proper test takes 4 damn months and I'm not the kind of person to just sit waiting patiently so I just stopped eating gluten. I only planned to stop for a little while to try it out but 3 weeks in I got a job working physical labour since all my pain was gone. I ate gluten again for a month after work was finished to get the test and it came back negative but I'll never actually know. I could have screwed it up by not eating enough, but I actually don't think I have it. I think they'll figure out in the next few years what's wrong because I just don't think I believed hard enough for any placebo effect. Not that I know how hard you have to believe, but I believed in other things more only to be let down.

I would definitely call that a positive end considering all my problems were solved by not eating certain foods. I'm also now really into baking bread and I'm getting pretty good at it.