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Tests Results...please Help!

Jan Gehrman

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This is what showed high in original blood test:

Glucsose Serum 100H 65-99

Creatinine, Serum 10H 0.57-1.00

AST Sgot 68H 0-40

ALT sgpt 135H 0-40

Since then had esophagogastroduodenoscopy with biopsy and colonoscopy.

Results:

1. Duodenal biopsy: Increased intraepithaelial lymphocytes.

2. Gastric biopsy: Diffuse moderately severely acute and chronic gastritis.

3. Eshophageal biopsy: Squamous epithelium and gastric mucosa with mild acute and chronic inflammation. No Barrrett's epithelium identified.

4. Terminal ileum biopsy: Mild focal nonspecific chronic inflammation.

5. Random colon biopsies: Severe microscopic (lymphocytic) colitis.

6. Rectal colon polyp biopsy: Tubular adeonoma with chronic inflammation.

Then the doctor order a blood test last week looking for Celiac Sprue Disease, and today went to the lab for Celiac Panel blood test.

Please help! I really want to know what is going on..having diaherra for 5 weeks. Just want to know what is wrong and move on to feeling better.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jan

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I dont know a whole lot about these results in detail, but the ALT and AST are suggestive of some liver damage......probably inflammation. Your numbers arent extremely high, but there is definitely some damage being done. The High creatinine is suggestive of a kidney problem. Not sure what exactly. And the glucose is suggestive of diabetes. Was this a fasting test? I cant tell you what is going on, but that is the basics of what those mean. Being that your liver and kidneys arent functioning perfectly, I assume your body is having a hard time detoxing. What are your symptoms right now? It looks like you have a lot of inflammation in your GI tract. It could be celiac or some major food intolerances. It could calso be a bacterial infection (H.Pylori), and many other bacteria. I would look into getting a stool test to look for infection, malabsorption, and anything else that might be going wrong throughout the GI tract.

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This is what showed high in original blood test:

Glucsose Serum 100H 65-99

Creatinine, Serum 10H 0.57-1.00

AST Sgot 68H 0-40

ALT sgpt 135H 0-40

Since then had esophagogastroduodenoscopy with biopsy and colonoscopy.

Results:

1. Duodenal biopsy: Increased intraepithaelial lymphocytes.

2. Gastric biopsy: Diffuse moderately severely acute and chronic gastritis.

3. Eshophageal biopsy: Squamous epithelium and gastric mucosa with mild acute and chronic inflammation. No Barrrett's epithelium identified.

4. Terminal ileum biopsy: Mild focal nonspecific chronic inflammation.

5. Random colon biopsies: Severe microscopic (lymphocytic) colitis.

6. Rectal colon polyp biopsy: Tubular adeonoma with chronic inflammation.

Then the doctor order a blood test last week looking for Celiac Sprue Disease, and today went to the lab for Celiac Panel blood test.

Please help! I really want to know what is going on..having diaherra for 5 weeks. Just want to know what is wrong and move on to feeling better.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jan

This was not a fasting blood test. They did do a stool sample which came back fine...not bacteria or anything. My symptoms are diaherra, tired, bloated stomach, gas, feels like someone is twisting my intestines sometimes, pale and not myself at all.

Do you know what the reports from the colonoscopy and the scope mean?

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