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Can Anyone Tell Me What Direction The Gi Is Going?

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After gong through all sorts of blood tests, gut tests, etc. my GI doc said I do not have Celiacs but encouraged me to begin following a gluten free diet 'if it made me feel better'.

So I started and almost immediately I began feeling so much better! I faithfully took my chelated Calcium, Magnesium and Zinc and also my vegetable digestive enzyme pill each day.

Out of the blue, the gut dr's office phones and says my last blood tests (done two months ago)

indicated I was 'severely anemic' and how did I feel? Truth be known I don't feel healthy at all. Tired. Weak.

She has requested the following blood tests of me:

HB

WBC

Diff

LDH (never heard of this one)

Indices

Plt

Ferrin

Fe Sat

Haptoglobin

Is she still searching for the anemia cause or what is she looking for? Don't know what the Haptoglobin test is.

Thank you for your help in alleviating my mind.

Magic

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Most likely. She is probably trying to determine the type of anemia you have also.

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Thanks, janetw. I still haven't had the requested blood tests taken. Probably at the end of the week I'll have them drawn and then go to my appt. to see her.

I haven't taken stayed true to following the celiac diet. I am such a sugar hog I feel ill if I do not eat any junk food. Can't get enough of the stuff.

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Thanks, janetw. I still haven't had the requested blood tests taken. Probably at the end of the week I'll have them drawn and then go to my appt. to see her.

I haven't taken stayed true to following the celiac diet. I am such a sugar hog I feel ill if I do not eat any junk food. Can't get enough of the stuff.

Your 'addiction' to gluteny junk food combined with the anemia is a good indication that your doctors advice to follow the diet despite the negative test results was a good one. Can you find a gluten free junk food, perhaps chocolate for example, to 'binge' on? To get healing from the gluten-free diet you have to follow it strictly. For some of us gluten is a very addictive substance which fires the opiate type of receptors in the brain. There is a lot of treat food available that is gluten free. I am making vanilla cupcakes with chocolate chips both inside and melted for frosting this afternoon.

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