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I'm Not Celiac! But......

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I got the results of my Enterolab tests yesterday. It was only one week since they received the samples - quick turnaround!

I have two gluten senstitive genes (DQ3/7 and DQ1/6 - not the ones that predispose to celiac). No malabsorbtion. So my conclusion is that I haven't developed celiac. I'm almost 60 now and have had digestive symptoms for as long as I can remember, at least as far back as junior-high days. So I figure that if I was going to develop celiac I'd have done so long before now.

I'm happy to learn there's no malabsorbtion problem. I've been overweight most of my adult life so that would seem bear this out.

I'm glad I had the genetic test run because I now know that my son definitely has one of these genes from me (who knows what he got from his father!). He has had asthma since he was a kid and still has it, although it's not severe. So, one of these days I'll talk to him about how the asthma could be caused from gluten - although I'm not sure he'll believe it.

This is unrelated, sort of, but I'm puzzled about the Fecal Fat Score that is used to determine malabsorbtion. I had my gall bladder removed in 1975 and was told that I wouldn't be able to digest fats very well after that. And, I wasn't - but here in the last ten years or so I haven't had as much problems seemingly). But, according to the test, I am able to digest fats now, if this test result is to be believed, and I don't doubt it. I see a kenesiologist now and then (a type of chiropractic) and he said he had been told that a gall bladder can grow back, and when he was in training and was disceting a cadabra, it had a regrown gall bladder! (wierd, huh!) I'm wondering if mine grew back and because of this I am able to digest fats. (I'm going to email Enterolab about this and see what they say). Anyone here run across this before?

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I'd never heard of one growing back, but I know tonsils can, so it seems possible.

I'm not sure if I'm celiac or not, but like you, I know I am gluten and casein intolerant. I had a colonoscopy done last summer and it showed no damage, but this was before my symptoms got really, really bad, so maybe the damage occured between then and April, not that it matters. I refer to myself as celiac because it just seems easier that way...

mamaw Community Regular
mamaw
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I really don't believe one can grow a new gallbladder. Maybe some weird doc didn't take it all to begin with or it is a fluke....My question is if one person can grow new body parts why can't everyone???//

It sounds like science fiction ......

mamaw

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eLaurie
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Gallbladders cannot 'grow back'. They're storage organs for bile produced by the liver; bile still is produced by the liver and is delivered directly to the GI tract after the gallbladder is removed. This causes irritation to some patients, none at all to others, and some like you for a period of time after which the body adjusts.

Kinesiologists are trained in body mechanics, not organ function. This guy probably saw a tumor or perhaps scar tissue on the cadaver he was examining and made an incorrect assumption that since tonsils (lymphatic tissue) can grow back, anything could. ....Don't my dialysis pts wish!?!??

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ArtGirl
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Well, I wondered about the gall bladder thing. It's not something I wanted to ask an MD 'cause he/she'd just make me feel stupid.

Thanks for the feedback.

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Well, I wondered about the gall bladder thing. It's not something I wanted to ask an MD 'cause he/she'd just make me feel stupid.

Thanks for the feedback.

You're welcome. It all gets confusing, I know. I get confused about medicine and nutrition on a daily basis ...and get paid for it. :D I feel so sorry for people with health problems these days who don't have health care provider friends or family. Unless you have great googling skills and are able to discern what is or isn't trustworthy info, it's difficult.

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