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I have had redness in the face for years. I don't get the heat, but I do look like I have a bad sunburn. Mine shows up when I am tired. One time I was diagnosed with lupus since it resembles a butterfly rash. However, that was not a correct diagnosis. I am still unraveling years of undiagnosed medical issues, but I believe my redness may be related to...

I had an endoscopy done, and the biopsy results were negative. I am left to try to figure out if I have gluten intolerance, yeast overgrowth, or both, and there does not appear to be any conclusive way to diagnose either. I am not sure which to try first for the diet. Does anyone know of any distinguishing symptoms? The symptoms of both seem to have...

I had my endo today, and to my surprise the GI said that I have acid reflux. I have never had any issues with heartburn or anything related to it. He immediately prescibed nexium, but I am not in favor of taking medications if I can avoid it. I need to do some more research on reflux, I guess, so I can determine how necessary it is. I was out of it, so...

The posters above are correct; you do have a right to a copy of all of your test results, though they may have the right to charge you a nominal fee, depending on your state. When my blood test results were in, the assistant/secretary at the GI's office told me by phone that the results were negative, but when I asked for the exact numbers, she said...

The doctor's office called and the secretary says that the doctor considers this a weak positive for celiac and wants to do an endoscopy to see if it is "celiac sprue". I am not inclined to want to do the endoscopy because regardless of the endoscopy results, the end result is the same...stay away from gluten. Am I right on this? I also found it interesting...

I just thought I'd give you all an update (the vent continues)... The doctor's office finally called back very late on Friday afternoon and unfortunately got my voice mail. The caller left a message that she got my question about the labs and I should call Monday and she only works in the a.m. She could have simply said "usually takes x weeks, we call...

I personally appeared at my doctor's office and requested a copy of my test results...here they are: Reticulin IGG AB = 1.20 (negative is <1.20, so this is a positive and is flagged "HH") Reticulin IGA AB = Negative (no number given???; but notes negative is < 1.20) TTG IGA = 1 (Negative= 0-3, Weak Positive= 4-10, Positive= >10) TTG IGG =...

Okay, I got my results verbally, and the secretary could not say them well. Don't worry, I will be getting a copy. Until then, apparently they did a Reticulin IgA and IgB test. The IgA test came back borderline, at 1.120 with the range being <1.2. The rest of it came back negative (I didn't get the IgB number, but the Ttg IgA and IgG were both ...

I went to a GI specialist and had a celiac panel done. However, he did not tell me how long I will have to wait for the results. As his office has not returned my phone call from 3 days ago inquiring about the time and whether they call me or I need to call them, I am left hanging. Can anyone give me an idea if it is normally a week, or two, or three to...

Thanks for the supportive replies! I'll get through this, but it is frustrating. I believe there are decent doctors out there, but finding them is difficult. As for the bad lawyers, the reason I started law school (I am a non-traditional student) was because I dealt with three different estates and several legal matters in a short period of years,...

I have had a myriad of small health issues over the last 15 years, and in spite of some tests and many visits to doctors, was always told that there was nothing wrong. This year I started having pain in my side and after a scare about liver disease because of an incompetent x-ray tech, I started doing some hard research on the net. To make a long story...

Hi, I am new to this board and have found it extremely informative. I am a 36 yr. old female. I have not yet been tested for celiac, but will be talking to my family physician about it tomorrow. I strongly suspect that my maternal grandmother had this, though she never knew it (pancreatitis unknown origin, gall bladder, hypothyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis...