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SandraL

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SandraL
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I have had stomach problems for the past 15 years, they began right around the time I was diagnosed with hypothryrodism. I have had many tests with doctors here in N. Virginia and have always been told that it must be IBS. After investigating Celiac disease I believe it may not be IBS but Celiac. I would like to find a doctor who deals with Celiac and not just a regular Gastro. Does anyone have a good doctor in the N. Va area? Thank you

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I live in NoVa and do not have a GI here (dx'ed before moving here).

However, one of the BEST, BEST, BEST Celiac experts is at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. His name is Dr. Alessio Fasano. His website is www.celiaccenter.org. I would recommend calling his Celiac Clinic and setting up an appointment there. You can read more about him and his research on this site.

Open Original Shared Link is the site for phone numbers.

Best of luck.

zansu Rookie
zansu
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DEFINITELY not Plotner. He examined me once and said IBS, with no tests! didn't address the GERD, either.

Crenshaw wasn't bad, but he's not really informed. He did a single place biopsy and decided I didn't have it. No blood tests. When I went back for a repeat colonoscopy I said i had celiac, he said "but your biopsy was negative (he never told me he did one when he did the endo for hiatal hernia and GERD)" I just told him that all my symptoms went away when I went gluten-free so I didn't care. He had the sense not to argue.

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