I was diagnosed with this as a wee child, thought I grew out of it in high school and could be a normie, so subsequently lived a glorious life of pizzas, cakes and breads.
But 10 years later, a confounding lethargy and balding pate made me rethink my habits. Since then I'm 100% poison, er gluten, free and have never felt better.
My question to anyone else who may frequent this post is this:

What can be done to repair the damage done from those years of gluten? Is the damage permanent, or will my insides heal themselves?

Hi and welcome to the board!

I am sure you already know this, but Celiac is NOT something we outgrow, unfortunately we have to adhere to a strict gluten-free diet for the rest of our lives! You can still enjoy all your favs like pizza, cake, cookies and brownies, they just have to be gluten-free!! http://www.glutenfreepantry.com/ sells a number of yummy things. Mi-Del makes gluten-free animal cookies, chocolate chip cookies and a couple of others. Amy's Organic makes a chees pizza on rice crust, it's pretty good too!

From what I understand it takes some time for your villi to heal, but I am pretty sure they do (please someone correct me if I am wrong).

Good luck to you and I hope you find some gluten-free treats that fix your sweet tooth

yes, the villi do heal after several months gluten-free. Sometimes it will take about 2 years for your insides to heal, depending on the amount of damage done. My villi were very damaged, and I have been gluten-free for 8 months now and have just had my second biopsy, which will show me if my villi have begun to heal. I certainly hope so, though I am different than most Celiacs because I am not doing so great on this diet, in many ways it has made me feel worse. Guess my GI tract has to get used to eating in a whole new way. But at least our insides do heal eventually, though we must never go off the diet unless we want all our damage back again!