Be grateful that you are NOT gluten-intolerant or celiac!  Whew!  The possibilities are so much wider with a wheat allergy than they are with those problems. The increased diagnosis and awareness of gluten intolerance, however, is a real boon to those who cannot tolerate wheat.

Another writes:

I am weirdly pleased by this announcement - not for your sake, but for the sake of the growing numbers of people who are discovering they have celiac or who are also allergic to wheat. Celiac disease is has gone from being a crackpot idea a few years ago to a condition considered by some doctors to be among the most underdiagnosed in the population. ( I believe the estimate is now 1 in 200 people.) And it can be a very difficult condition - I know a couple of people with celiac, one a little girl whose parents thought she was dying of cancer before she was finally diagnosed at age 4, and a medical professor in his 60s who was only diagnosed a couple of years ago - before, he looked absolutely awful, easily 10 years older than he was - scrawny, blotchy, and weak. "I'm a believer now," he said, after starting his gluten-free diet.

Another:

I'm a long-time reader.  I'm also a gastroenterologist and researcher specializing in celiac disease, and would like to offer the following: