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1. 4 hours ago - knitty kitty replied to Ginger38's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
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  @Ginger38, Have you been checked for nutritional deficiencies, besides iron? Celiac disease causes inflammation which results in nutritional deficiencies. Iron needs Thiamine and the other B vitamins to make new red blood cells. Iodine and thiamine deficiencies affect the thyroid. The thyroid is one organ that uses lots of thiamine....
2. 5 hours ago - Ginger38 replied to Ginger38's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
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  Okay, Thank you!! I already have thyroid problems and my total iron binding capacity is high which usually means low iron but everything else was normal, lower end but “normal” my hair falls out and my nails won’t grow without breaking but nothing is being treated iron wise. I have started having palpitations and chest pain, both of which seem to be...
3. 6 hours ago - knitty kitty replied to Alibu's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
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  Waiting on biopsy after positive bloodwork, but also not really believing this is real
  
  @Alibu, Start with this study... High-dose thiamine supplementation improves glucose tolerance in hyperglycemic individuals: a randomized, double-blind cross-over trial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23715873/ "Conclusion/interpretation: Supplementation with high-dose thiamine may prevent deterioration in fasting glucose and insulin,...
4. 6 hours ago - Alibu replied to Alibu's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
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  @knitty kitty I see, thank you!! Yes, basically the biopsy just said "normal villous architecture." It didn't give any kind of Marsh score at all, but it sounds like it would be a 0 based on the biopsy report, which is why he's saying it's Latent or Potential celiac. It's just weird because I know in Europe if I was a child, they wouldn't even do the biopsy...
  
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5. 7 hours ago - trents replied to Hummer01's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
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  That is one issue but the bigger issue may be the human tendency to rationalize it all away without an official diagnosis such that you keep falling off the gluten free bandwagon. But there is the option of going for the gluten challenge in a more robust way and getting retested.