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conway Rookie

hi all,

ive been ill for what i thought was M.E FOR 18 YEARS,FAST FORWAD to 3 years ago having graves disease and a total thyroidectomy never right since.drs did celiacs blood test which was positive ,had endoscopy which was negative,what shall i do now?i

.im

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n the uk and thinking of having the gene test done.is there other things that give a positive blood result?

Tanya.x


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CecilyF Rookie

Have you gotten off gluten yet? Within three days of getting off gluten, I was a NEW person. You may have to try things yourself. I had been to 10 different doctors before anyone ever mentioned celiac disease to me. I tried the diet, and that was it!

Sorry I cannot be more help...

Lisa Mentor

hi all,

ive been ill for what i thought was M.E FOR 18 YEARS,FAST FORWAD to 3 years ago having graves disease and a total thyroidectomy never right since.drs did celiacs blood test which was positive ,had endoscopy which was negative,what shall i do now?i

.im

i

n the uk and thinking of having the gene test done.is there other things that give a positive blood result?

Tanya.x

Positive blood work is a true diagnosis. Give the diet a true 100% for three months and see how you feel. My guess it Marvelous!

conway Rookie

Positive blood work is a true diagnosis. Give the diet a true 100% for three months and see how you feel. My guess it Marvelous!

should the bloods have been a full panel?

they only tested t.transglutaminase antibody..which was positive.

Tanya.x

Jestgar Rising Star

should the bloods have been a full panel?

they only tested t.transglutaminase antibody..which was positive.

Tanya.x

yes, probably. Are you still eating gluten? Can you get it redone?

CSU Grad Newbie

Have you gotten off gluten yet? Within three days of getting off gluten, I was a NEW person. You may have to try things yourself. I had been to 10 different doctors before anyone ever mentioned celiac disease to me. I tried the diet, and that was it!

Sorry I cannot be more help...

If you feel that wheat is a problem, yes, try to get away from it for a while and see what happens. But, it may take longer than a few days to feel a difference, especially if you have other more complex problems as a result of the wheat.

However, when changing your diet, always, always make sure that you know how to eat a balanced diet without the particular product, which you are removing. This is not as easy as you may think. When you have been eating a product as a regular part of your diet for so many years, your brain thinks about dietary needs with that particular product in mind. You must make a concerted effort to analyze what you eat, what you used to eat, and what you should eat.

One of the main reasons that wheat is such an integral part of the human diet, and has been for about 6000 years in one form or another, is that you can get carbs and protein from it with relatively ease, and for cheap. When civilization as we know it formed about 6000 years ago in the Middle East, the leaders of the time realized that growing wheat type products could feed the growing numbers of masses. These numbers of masses increased due to the new social structure and city environment. Growing sufficient amounts of other foods to feed them was simply impossible, and pretty much is still hard today. Consequently, wheat/bread became a staple of the human diet. With it came a trade-off of hardships. 1 in every 100 people are intolerant to wheat gluten...that's 10% of the population that should not, and cannot eat wheat products!! The decision was unwittingly made over 6000 years ago to not care about that 10%, but is propagated today, still by both industry and government. So many foods have wheat gluten added as a protein supplement, and other portions of the stalk as filler, that it is almost impossible to just remove it from the social structure of food manufacturing.

However, you have the power to remove it from your diet...in what ever proportions you need to, whether that be completely, or only partially, but you must be dedicated to doing so and giving up a lot of the "easy foods" that you used to fill your diet with.

psawyer Proficient

1 in every 100 people are intolerant to wheat gluten...that's 10% of the population that should not, and cannot eat wheat products!!

These two statements contradict each other. 1 in 100 is 1%, not 10%.


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conway Rookie

These two statements contradict each other. 1 in 100 is 1%, not 10%.

SO WITH THAT ONLY 1 POSITIVE BLOOD RESULT,SHOULD I TAKE IT I AM CELIAC OR COULD SOMETHING ELSE CAUSE IT TO BE RAISED?

tANYA.X

conway Rookie

SO WITH THAT ONLY 1 POSITIVE BLOOD RESULT,SHOULD I TAKE IT I AM CELIAC OR COULD SOMETHING ELSE CAUSE IT TO BE RAISED?

tANYA.X

anyone?

Lisa Mentor

anyone?

Here is some information that might be helpful:

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nora-n Rookie

The tissue transglutaminase test is a pretty specific test, but it may be postive in a few other cases.

Celiac is often patchy, and if they missed the right spot, they missed it. Or, the biopsy specimen was not oriented right. Or, they did not count the intraepithelial lymphocytes. If they are a bit increased then this points to celiac. Or, the pathologist is not good.

Another thing is M.E.

You probably heard of professor Kenny De Meirleir from Belgium.

He says M.E is an immune illness of the gut, and lots of patients report getting better within a year. They often have enteroviruses and food intolerances and gluten intolerace, fructose or other sugar intolerances. And it takes about 8 months or more for the gut to replace immune cells, therefore it takes a while.

The antigliadin thing may come from gut immunity problems (and of course the diet prescribed to such patients is a gluten free diet)

I do not know if that improves after treatment, if those patients tolerate gluten after treatment, but some lyme patients have reported that they are now back on gluten. In their case it was pseudo-celiac. They got just as sick from gluten as celiacs do. LymeMd also mentions this phenomenon on his blog.

nora-n Rookie

Here is more about the gut and ME:

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CSU Grad Newbie

These two statements contradict each other. 1 in 100 is 1%, not 10%.

Yep, Peter, that was a typo....should be 1%

But let's not take away the effect here...even 1% of the population is a large number of people!

And in other populations, for instance those of North Africa, the number is 1 in 5, or 20% !!

CSU Grad Newbie

SO WITH THAT ONLY 1 POSITIVE BLOOD RESULT,SHOULD I TAKE IT I AM CELIAC OR COULD SOMETHING ELSE CAUSE IT TO BE RAISED?

tANYA.X

Sorry, if I confused anyone with my statistic....

The proportion of people with Celiac Disease to those without it, has nothing to do with the accuracy of the blood test for antibodies.

CSU Grad Newbie

The tissue transglutaminase test is a pretty specific test, but it may be postive in a few other cases.

Celiac is often patchy, and if they missed the right spot, they missed it. Or, the biopsy specimen was not oriented right. Or, they did not count the intraepithelial lymphocytes. If they are a bit increased then this points to celiac. Or, the pathologist is not good.

Let's clarify this a little more so that we can describe this accurately:

In medical testing, and in statistics, there are two terms used to describe the accuracy of a test.

Sensitivity

Specificity

What does this mean?

Recall from your statistics classes the relationships between sensitivity and

specificity:

Sensitivity tells you the probability that a test will result in a true

positive outcome.

Specificity tells you the probability that a test will result in a true

negative outcome.

False negative rate = (1-sensitivity)

False positive rate = (1-specificity)

For the antibody tests typically in use, the results vary by lab, but the range is great in both sensitivity and specificity.

From a recent study on celiac disease and the descriptive statistics of the accuracy of the test results, (Please follow the link and read the study, you'll be surprised by what your doctor didn't know about these tests):

"The rational use of any test requires an understanding

of the sensitivity and specificity of the test. Most sensi-

tivity and specificity data for celiac disease serologic tests have

been generated from studies conducted in a research

setting and it is possible the tests may perform less well

in the clinical setting. Reasons for this possibility in-

clude the following: (1) there is a lack of test standard-

ization between commercial laboratories and variations

in cut-off levels can affect both the sensitivity and spec-

ificity1, (2) study populations in the research setting

usually have a much higher ratio of celiac to nonceliac

subjects that likely will render the test less accurate in

the clinical setting, (3) there still is no generally accepted

gold standard for the diagnosis of celiac disease. Biopsy specimen

confirmation is used most commonly to diagnose celiac disease but

variations in the severity of the histologic changes and in

the expertise of the pathologist can impact correct diag-

nosis in clinical practice adversely."

Link: Open Original Shared Link

nora-n Rookie

csu, you are right.

About the positive ttg test and what it means, the thing is that it is quite specific.

And biopsies can miss celiac.

There was someone posting here I think who got a video capsule endoscopy and lo and behold the celiac was at the other end of the small intestine, thus missed by ordinary endoscopy.

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