I have Celiac and have been gluten free for 1.5 years. It's not any more expensive or hard to do depending on what you like to eat. You have a complete hunter's diet to choose from for certain. meat, veggies, potatoes. All summer long we grill out any meat imaginable, eat all veggies and fruit and potatoes (I eat mine with cheese and onion and bacon, etc.). Winter cooking - just as easy, but if you want to eat any pasta, you'll have to get gluten free pasta - the cheapest place to get gluten free pasta is walmart. the grocery store sells it for $4-$5 a bag, but you can get some for $2 at WalMart. Betty Crocker makes gluten free brownies, etc. Pillsbury makes gluten free dough. Red mill makes gluten free flour, pizza crust. The hardest part is eating out. I just rarely do it and only at places that are really careful due to cross-contamination. For instance Dominos gluten free pizza, not for Celiacs as it's cooked in the same ovens as gluten pizza. I make my own pizza you can get gluten free flour and yeast or pizza crust, johnsonville sausage, mushrooms, hormel pepperoni, etc. just read the labels. When I want to make cookies, which is cheaper than buy those crap expensive gluten free cookies, I make my normal recipes but buy rice flour instead. It's that easy. The hardest part is realizes everything has gluten in it - your toothpaste, shampoo, soap, ketchup, mustard, spices, ice-cream (I only eat blue bunny and Edys or go to cold stone and have them make it special for me with gluten free ingredients of course ie. no brownies). Read the labels and if you aren't sure, you don't eat it. I was diagnosed fibro after gluten free so I can't say gluten free takes care of anything for you. I had symptoms with Celiac of brain fog, anxiety, inflammation, tingling in legs, swollen lymph nodes, asthma, fatigue, bloating, diarrhea, recurrent yeast infections, constipation, irritability, swollen feet, ankles, and hands, acne, migraines. All got better gluten free - lost 30 pounds (all swelling/inflammation/water cuz I do not exercise), no bloating, infections subsided, went off migraine pills, no swelling this summer, lymph nodes down, I wake up before 10am without an alarm clock, bowels are normal, acne cleared up - but I still got headaches and some anxiety (my anxiety - i'm not talking about worrying about things - I'm talking about Anxiety - real anxiety - feeling out of my head, in a fog, going to faint, blacking out, blurred vision, can't see anxiety). It was after all this and still having some symptoms that I got nodules in my abdomen the size of marbles that are sore and pinch me like hell and sore all over my body and cramping so bad I cry in pain like I do with the abdominal nodules. I can't cross my legs or my arms or rest my hand on my face. My muscles spasm. I have deep aches to my bone. My knee gives me so much trouble I can't put weight on it most of the time. I am sore to the touch all over, especially certain areas like my outside thighs and arms. Hurts just to sit as my butt and underside of legs hurts just touching a chair. It's ridiculous. And gluten free does absolutely nothing for that as I was gluten free first. It is healthier than eating gluten as I have learned what horrible garbage gluten is and how the gov. has increased our gluten content so much over the years on purpose and now we all have issues so I advise not eating it and it may help with brain fog and migraines, etc. for sure. But not for your body pain. In my experience anyway.