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Virus, celiac disease or both?
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@knitty kitty I had an injury from assuming I could do work outs at the gym like I did in my 20s 😏. it didn’t work in my favor. My orthopedic doctor told me to go on 50,000IU /per week for 4-6 weeks for a boost and then do a maintenance. I took 2 and got nervous to take any more, it seemed so high to me. About 7 months later I had a blood test revealing that...
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@trents I’m pretty sure what I’m left with when separating celiac to other causes is my 10% being a virus. The one I had about 3 weeks before taking this TTG test. Everything I’ve read says type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis and some viruses are what could cause the elevation. The other blood tests I had I can compare things against. I...
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@trents This info is so helpful and I’m absorbing it all. My blood tests were almost a month ago and I feel like it came out of left field. I never even heard of term “silent celiac.” I thought celiac gave you violent diarrhea when you consumed a tiny bit of gluten. That’s it. Not that it damages your small intestine, not that it made the absorption of vita...
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@trents I do like the idea of the shake! yes. I was expecting to have all my blood tests that were celiac related to be positive. I guess I’m confused about why they wouldn’t be. Nothing else in my blood work even gave a clue as to helping me either. All my vitamins were good other than D and that’s everyone in my state. @RMJ how impre...
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Hi @RMJ, Thank you for you input. I really appreciate all view points on this, more than you know. Maybe I’ve done too much research. One thing I read would point to yes and then along comes all these variables that convinces me that my levels were high because of having a virus. I don’t like bread or pasta that much but seriously lov...
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Thank you @trents! I have been going back and forth on some gluten free some days and some days not trying to see if there is any reaction to how I feel. As much as I don’t want to I think given the blood test not being 100%. It’s fair to say an EGD is necessary. I do think before I go through with that I would run another TTG IGA...
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Thank you @trents! This is all sound advice. In 2022 I did have a biopsy done with the EGD: SPECIMEN: (A) DUODENUM, BIOPSY (B) GASTRIC BIOPSY(C) GASTRIC POLYP, BIOPSY(D) ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY (E) ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY This would have been when the candida was found. If I understand right it’s the duodenum they take a biopsy of. Nothing was mentioned a...
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@trents - sorry, I know that didn’t make sense. I need to get better at rereading the things I write. The people I know of that have a gluten sensitivity or intolerance have tested negative for celiac. They can’t have gluten of any kind without having a reaction. That to me isn’t helpful. If I reacted to gluten I wouldn’t eat it regardless of it b...
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Hi @trents! I feel like relying to a super star with as much of your content I’ve read. Lol. I definitely don’t disagree with you but I think I’m so chicken about another EDG. What do you think about the EMA-IgA test? I’ve read so much at this point I don’t know if I trust anything completely. Even if everything said yes I would s...
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Hello, In May of 2025 I started seeing a functional medicine doctor. She ran a lot of labs, about 25 different things. 3 things came back abnormal. My vitamin D was low, 26.6 normal is 30-80 but I live in a northern state of the US and a lot of people are low, my total omegas were also low. Transglutaminase IgG Antibodies (Normal range:...