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Going low carb helped me tremendously with postprandial bloating, fatigue, nausea, and sometimes vertigo. I was strict gluten and dairy free for years but I didn’t feel like it was enough. I eventually experimented eliminating grains and then cutting out all carbs and sugars and all my symptoms improved. I’ve been able to put on weight which was never possible for me and I feel a lot stronger.(I am doing high fat, medium protein, under 20g carb) i feel like my energy was miss focused on the celiacs diagnosis- I kept going back to the drs and getting tons of tests which lead to “your fine” so really improving the quality of my diet helped me be proactive. I feel a lot more empowered and hopeful and focus on minimizing inflammation by keeping my blood sugars low.
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How many mg or IU of B12 are you taking daily? One way to address malabsorption inefficiency is to just take more of the supplement. For example, if your absorption efficiency is 25% of normal, you could theoretically, uptake the same amount as someone with 100% absorption efficiency by taking four times as much. Are you also anemic by some chance? B12 uptake is necessary to iron uptake. You needn't worry about overdosing on the B vitamins. The common forms are all water soluble and we just pee out any excess. They are not toxic in high doses.
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@plumbago Thanks again! I do not take any NSAIDs. I appreciate your advice, and I will follow up re. sodium with my provider.
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The supplements should work with time on a gluten free diet. I would be concerned about that sodium level. From the other results you posted, the trend seems to be downward. Please do follow up about that. It's not normal to walk around constantly with a sodium of 130. As for diagnosis, you could go back on a full gluten containing diet and blood test again. You could supplement the biopsy with a genetic test (expensive). A positive genetic test, combined with the biopsy, while not a slam dunk, does point to celiac disease. BTW, do you take a lot of NSAIDs?
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Sorry! Yes, that was typed confusing/weird…I was eating my normal gluten containing diet up to the blood work, got the results on 3/30, started the next day of changing my diet pretty drastically- 3/31-4/12. Then fell off the rails over this past weekend thinking I was feeling better and had a friend’s birthday, etc. At first, the individual foods didn’t bother me (I.e. creamer in my coffee, more seasonings in my food that are high fodmap) so I thought for some reason I’d be good. But after a couple days (4 at this point) my stomach isn’t happy, but I can’t pinpoint exactly what food it is.
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