Confused Symptoms

[boobybabs]

Have posted before regarding confusion about what is actually wrong with me....have acid reflux for sure.....but not sure what else, except I am pretty positive I have an intolerance or allergy to something...anyway diet is pretty much gluten free and on acid reflux pills......feel pretty good - have recently been to naturopath for aid.....questions....today had some dark chocolate (which is normally tolerated) after eating feeling off....breathless, mild tingling, anxiety....just feeling off - checked the label in more detail...wheat, eggs - again, do not think symptoms are severe enough to warrant celiac so maybe intolerance......have been feeling like old self...begin to think you imagined how weird and bad you were feeling before, then you get a little taste of that feeling again and boy do you remember....anyway, has anyone had the pinprick food insensitivities testing that is offered through naturopath? Had some basic stress point testing done and tested high in dairy and wheat areas - Apparently full test is 96 categories, but not sure about realiability? Anyone have any knowledge of this?

[ravenwoodglass]

The skin prick test is for true allergy reactions. It will not pick up intolerances which is what celiac is. Have you asked your doctor for a full celiac panel with total IGA included? If you are gluten light that would cause a false negative so you need to be on a full gluten diet before the panel is run. If you have been gluten light you might want to consider going strictly gluten free for at least 3 months and then if you have doubt you could challenge with gluten for a week or so to see if you react.

[Jestgar]

- again, do not think symptoms are severe enough to warrant celiac so maybe intolerance......

It's not a spectrum. Currently Celiac is defined as 'damage to the intestines' or DH. Gluten intolerance is and verse reaction to gluten (wheat barley rye oats) which includes Celiac disease.

How strongly you react to a bit of wheat depends on your body's chemistry, not the name given to what you are experiencing.