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Kerrie faded to 35kg

Posted: March 10, 2012 at 8:57 pm

AT one point during her battle with coeliac disease, Wodonga woman Kerrie Winnetts weight plummeted to a mere 35kilograms.

For more than 25 years she had experienced excessive weight loss and tiredness that was wrongly diagnosed until 2001.

It has taken the past 10 years for her to reach a normal weight and learn to manage the debilitating illness.

I had no energy, I was flat out getting through a day, Mrs Winnett, 51, said.

I lost a lot of weight really quickly, people thought I was anorexic because I was so skinny.

Mrs Winnett was incorrectly diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome and another doctor told her it was all in her head.

My mother had passed away the year before from bowel cancer, we were nursing her, so that was stressful, she said.

I went to the doctor and he said it was in my head and virtually told me to go away.

But a new doctor suspected something more serious.

She thought it was bowel cancer so she sent me for blood tests but it came back with coeliac, Mrs Winnett said.

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