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I thought I heard there were five different blood tests for celiac, but I could only find four. Any help is appreciated. The reason I ask is because I may get my blood tests done today, and I want to understand what's going on.

I really think my hair dresser opened my eyes. She also told me about taking ginger capsules for nausea, and honestly, it's the only thing that's helped out of all of prescription nausea medications the doctors gave me [liquid donnatol, phenagrine pills, shots, and suppositories, zophram shots and dissolvable pills]. The prescription meds just messed with...

Hah, definitely. I don't know what I would have done without the internet. Funny story though, I actually wouldn't have looked into Celiac disease if it weren't for the girl who cuts my hair. She related a lot of my symptoms to her cousin who has it.

I also wanted to note also a very important symptom I've been having. Although the last couple of mornings were okay [which made me forget], I do get extremely ill in the mornings. Mainly nausea, sometimes diarrhea, EXTREME weakness [can't even hold a phone or book]. But also, I have heart palpitations too [my heart beats really fast]. I'm really worried...

Nice to meet another person from NC. I just moved here [Wilmington] from VA. It does seem to be the diagnosis made when your doctors have ruled out everything. But honestly, my doctors haven't ruled out everything unless they do the tests for celiac, crohns, and ulcerative colitis, along with maybe other food allergies. My symptoms now tend to be...

My gastroenterologist is pretty quick to jump at the IBS diagnosis without using the Rome II diagnosis [ruling out celiac disease, ulcerative colitis, and chrohns], which is really the only way you can diagnose IBS, from what I've read. I wanted to know if there were any important differences between IBS and Celiac? I know the wheat intolorance is a big...

That sounds horrible. I was actually just reading about how some people go on gluten-free diets to help their depression and anxiety, along with other mental illnesses. I wonder if that means they'd have to get a psychiatrist to tell your school that you needed to have gluten-free food or something. Don't know if they'd even accept that either. Pretty weird...

I have been screened for quite a few GI diseases, although I'm not sure exactly what they were, which makes it hard for me to research and ask the doctor if this could be it. You see, for some reason, the doctors here aren't taking me seriously. In fact, the first night I had initially gotten ill, I was told by a triage nurse at the ER I was having a panic...

Wow, your medical history is sounding quite a bit like mine before I began getting severe GI symptoms [i still don't know if it's Celiac]. So far this year, I've had about three kidney infections [they don't seem to go away really], a yeast infection [which I have never had one in my life], and about three colds. I'm normally not this sick ever. Also...

Thanks for the responses Seems like the test would be the best thing to do in this case. I did have one question though...can celiac make you sick even when you haven't eaten? I know I've had quite a few days through this ordeal [although not recently] where I was still pretty sick, but I hadn't eaten because of it. Any thoughts?

This may turn out to be a novel of a first post, but here it goes... The last week of this past May, I became deathly ill after eating at Red Lobster. My family and I assumed automatically that it was food poisoning. I had initially vomitted a lot, but after that, just severe nausea, pin-prick feelings on my skin, chills and hot flashes, diarrhea/loose...