My Symptoms And Testing

[Caribbeanhunee]

About a year ago, I had a baby and around two months after I started to suffer from serious bloating and abdominal distention and gas. Fairly recently I have started to have stomach pains but not often and not extremely painful. I do not have diarrhea but my bowel movements have not been frequent or what I would say as normal for me. Since my symptoms were mostly bloating and gas, I suspected candida especially due to frequent yeast infections. However, I saw a GI and he quickly dismissed that as if he did not even think candida overgrwoth existed. He did an endoscopy and the results came back last week. He told me that my duodenum did not look like "typical celiac". The pathology came back as it being possibly several things: celiac, protein intolerance, bacterial overgrowth, viral infection, continuous use of NSAIDS such as ibuprofen. I have to go to take a blood test next week but was curious about what everyone thinks.

[Skylark]

It sounds like they saw general inflammation and damage. I hope you get better info from the blood tests. Once the testing is done, you can try gluten-free and see if it helps. When I have yeast infections, I usually buy a box of Threelac probiotic online. It works really well for me.

[Caribbeanhunee]

It sounds like they saw general inflammation and damage. I hope you get better info from the blood tests. Once the testing is done, you can try gluten-free and see if it helps. When I have yeast infections, I usually buy a box of Threelac probiotic online. It works really well for me.

Thanks for responding. The doc says if the blood test comes back negative he may give me an antibiotic. I tested negative for H. Pylori though. I was wondering if anyone with a celiac diagnosis was ever told that it could be other conditions after they had an endoscopy.

[ravenwoodglass]

It is not unusual for women to have celiac triggered by childbirth. Hopefully the blood tests will give you a good answer but false negatives are not uncommon. After you are done with testing do give the diet a good strict try. Resolution of your issues off gluten combined with the endo results would IMHO be pretty diagnostic even if the bloodwork is negative.