I Had My Gi Visit Today, Good Or Bad

[hungryforlife]

So, I had my visit with the gastro this morning. You fill out four pages of questions regarding symptoms you are feeling (head to toe - neuro, gastro, cardio, etc.) before you even get there, then she reviewed it with me stopping to ask questions about some of my issues. The biggest of course being fatigue, nausea and dizziness.

I never mentioned celiac's to her, but it was on page 3 regarding family diagnosed with any issues. And I had given her my blood work from the last two visits to the dr. One was the two test he did for celiac's (IgA/IgG (the numbers were 3/4 respectively) But I am not sure if she saw them while we were talking.

She never really indicated what could be going on one way or another until we were talking about my diet and the a few years ago my husband had did weight watchers and lost 100 pounds and during the same time I was diagnosed with post-partum depression so started taking anit-depressants. During the three years that followed our diet became better and better and I starting getting sicker and sicker. Refining my diet as I went along. Cutting out heavy, fried, fast, dining out, etc and going to lots of fruits and vegetables, chicken, only eating red meat maybe once a week, and whole grains. Then I told her that I had been eating oatmeal every morning for the past two and a half years and instead of feeling better, I had continually been getting worse with the dizziness, the nausea, loose bowels etc.

She started rummaging through my chart at that point and as she was rummaging, I was getting to the point that my brother had been diagnosed with Celiac's a few years ago.....and she said that is just what I was looking for to see if there was a family history. I then told her about the pedi and the fistula that my son had and how is pedi had mentioned testing him for it when he was older. I told her I never really put two and two together until talking with my brother last summer and knowing that as healthy as I was eating I should be feeling great, but instead I feel like I am getting worse.

She said that she was ordering both an upper and lower (fun fun) series and the doctor would speak with my hubby afterwards and that she would follow up with me in about two weeks after the endo/colon. She was getting up to leave and I asked if she was going to order a celiac panel and she said no, the the doctor had done it. I commented that he had not done the whole test but only two, to which she said there is only a few and that she had noted the celiacs on my chart so that when the doctor did the endo he would get into the (_______) area of the small intestines to do a biopsy (If he could get in there) sorry, but I dont know what area she said. She reiterated about three times that that area would be able to pick it up?

So what do you guys think? I feel like the light bulb went on for her when I mentioned the oatmeal. She followed up with questions about other wheat products and I said no, just that my body would do a total body dump about once or twice a month and the only time I could create the nausea and dizziness and urgency to go was when I ate simple carbs, cake, donuts, pastries, etc. which she attributed to sugar, not wheat? Although I can eat candy (without wheat) without problems?

Thanks in advance for your input.

[dlp252]

It sounds to me like she is at least willing to consider the possibility, which I think is a good start! She sounds like she at least knows some basics like it runs in families/is genetic! One question you might ask is how many samples they'll take during the biopsy...I think the general consensus is that it should be more than just a couple.