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  1. Hi again @ALLAN HUGHES You should definitely ask your medical doctors exactly why you are taking this medication and what is the exact source of the anemia. That will be step one, and will help immensely. Have you had any labs for inflammation levels? If so, what did they show? Systemic inflammation that results in immune cell activation and...
  2. @ALLAN HUGHES For me, learning about iron in the body is difficult and complicated because it has different forms and purposes, binds to one protein for transport, and is stored bound to another. Also, there are different components involved in the measurement of iron in the body, which mean different things. Finally, anemia does not just mean iron-deficiency...
  3. Hello, My [insert cuss word here] diagnostic reference book does not mention celiac disease as a potential cause of elevated ALP! Grrr.... I am reading that, as you note, levels are higher for children than adults. Other pieces of information: "recent ingestion of a meal can increase levels;" certain drugs may increase levels - and it lists...
  4. A topic of endless discussion! I wish I had a clean answer to give you, but I don't.
  5. Good questions. For no. 1, did you mean months, there? People will tell you that different people react differently to gluten - some may be very sensitive, others less so. I asked the same question (no. 2) to a celiac expert I made sure to get an appt with before he left for Massachusetts, and was told something like an eighth of a teaspoon. I have no...
  6. Check with your doctor - sounds like your allergies are life-threatening and you should be prescribed an epi pen. (I didn't understand the sentence you wrote with "epi" in it, fyi.)
  7. @janeen McConniel Securing appointments with FM doctors would be ideal, if only insurance covered them, and/or we all could afford it!
  8. My goodness, that is quite an oversight! How did that happen? BTW, many with celiac often have elevated enzymes. Did your's normalize once you were on a gluten-free diet?
  9. I wish I had something constructive to tell you. The only other thing I can think of is that once people are gluten-free, often when they next get glutened, the reaction can be even worse than when they were regularly eating it.
  10. Anne, is the tablet itself gluten free? The rap on SSRIs is that they can often stimulate as opposed to depress one's nervous system. OTOH, maybe she's having some kind of paradoxical reaction. I can't write all that knowledgeably about it, other than to say, that when I take pseudoephedrine, I get very sleepy, whereas the rap on it, as a drug class, is that...
  11. Laura, I agree with trents, that blood in this instance is often attributed to a small cut in the anus / rectal area, and other things he noted. But you may at the same time want to ensure that you are not bleeding any further up your digestive tract, and for that, your doctor can order a FIT test or fecal occult blood. It's easy to do. Good luck.
  12. I know this is an old-ish post, but thought I would respond here for reasons that will become clear. Yes, when I was diagnosed with Celiac, the scopist also observed a hiatal hernia. It was of little interest to me at the time - roughly 13 years ago - because 1) I had no idea what a HH is/was, and 2) had no symptoms from it. I was told it is extremely common...
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