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Iron: 17 mcg/dL (Low) November 11, 2016 Ferritin: 1.8 ng/mL (Low) November 11, 2016 RBC: 4.05x10^6/uL (Low) November 11, 2016 Hemoglobin: 8.5 gm/dL (Low) November 11, 2016 Vitamin D: 25.7 ng/mL (Low) February 22, 2017 ANA Profile : February 27, 2017 FANA: Positive FANA Titer: 1:640 FANA Pattern: Homogenous Gliadin IgA: 2 units June 29, 2017 Gliadin IgG: 3 units June 29,2017 TTG Ab IgA: <1 units/mL June 29, 2017 TTG Ab IgG: <1 units/mL June 29, 2017 Immunoglobulin A: 59.1 mg/Dl (Low) July 10, 2017 Immunoglobulin M: 44.2 mg/Dl (Low) July 10,2017 Immunoglobulin G: 1010.0 mg/Dl (Normal?) July 10, 2017 Immunoglobulin E: 5 KU/L July 10,2017 My RBC and Hemoglobin have come up and are normal. My iron levels will get high (too high) when I take 65 mg elemental iron twice a day for several weeks but my ferritin has never gotten over 42 ng/mL. When I stop taking my iron supplement my iron and ferritin plummet in just a matter of weeks. My hair is falling out, I get rapid heartbeat when I get too low on iron and if I get my iron too high. My whole body hurts especially my finger joints, back , knees and really all of my joints. Going to the bathroom at least 2 times day and sometimes up to 5 times a day. Extreme fatigue, Brain fog, extremely emotional and irritable. I just went gluten free July 1, 2017 and am starting to feel better. Joints feel better, I can sleep better, my mood is better. Celiac or maybe just gluten sensitive? Any thoughts? What do my labs say about me?

Hi there, Thanks for taking the time to read this. I am so very confused, so thought I’d ask for help to see if anyone can understand my ANA results. I am currently under investigation for celiac and for ulcerative colitis. I had some bloods done last month and only through deciding to do a private referral (I am in the UK) have I found out there there are some abnormalities in my antinuclear antibodies. I asked my doctors for a print out of all my bloods. I have lower white blood cells, my ESR is very slightly raised. These are my ANA results: ENA ANTIBODIES - (SJM) • Ro antibody level - negative • La antibody level - negative • RNP antibody level - weak positive • Sm antibody level - negative • Jo-1 antibody level - negative • Scl 70 antibody level - negative DNA binding autoantibodies (SJM) - negative • Complement - third component - C3 - 1.39g/l (range 0.55-1.20) HEP2 ANA - (SJM) - Cytoplasmic Does anyone understand what this means? Do I ignore it? Why does it not say ANA negative or positive, but says cytoplasmic instead? Why is there no titre? I am no doctor so I have no idea, but I’d really like your opinion. Something has obviously been picked my from the lovely doctor I saw privately. I also have Raynauds Thanks so much for your help.

I recently read a on a Celiac research site, that when a non Celiac gluten sensitive person is blood tested for evidence of an autoimmune disease, they will never test positive for that disease and therefore continue to go without a correct diagonises. I am looking for a copy of that research document because I have to change my rheumatologist because he retired and I have met others who continue to live without the correct diagnoses all because we are gluten sensitive! He headed the Rhumatology department of a large teaching hospital and knew just by looking at me that I have Scleroderma and Raynaud's. I went on to be seen for Sjogren's by a cornea specialist and there was a great debate as to whether I qualified because of my ANA test. (I have the most severe dry eye with cornea damage, dry mouth and dry vagina and the DNA that indicates I could be a candidate for Sjogren's.). This would be an important find for the community of us that continue on our search for health. I am 100% gluten free for 5 years; research gluten and its impact on our life; coach people that have gluten issues on how to build their life without gluten and embrace a new way to live; my 21 year old grandson is gluten sensitive and has several autoimmune diseases and my sisters and cousins have both also.

Hi- So asking for friend. Daughter is seven - family history autoimmune (mom is hashimoto's + adopted gfd almost three years ago and never looked back, even though she herself was never formally tested). Daughter has been having chronic stomach pain + nausea for several months She was just tested - celiac antibodies came back negative but she had low blood count (anemia) and really elevated ANA (antinuclear antibody test). Did anyone else test this way at first or have a kid later diagnosed that tested this way? (Pediatrician wants mom to follow up with rheumatologist, and she is planning to, but appointment is two and half months out. In the meantime, she really feels like her daughters symptoms are all GI, so she keeps circling back to wondering if celiac and/or ncgs is effectively precluded or not. She asked me what I thought, and I straight up told her I don't think I have any objectivity about gluten right now. But I thought I would ask the board if anyone else showed up w/ their gluten problems this way first....)