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  1. tom
    Whoa! I've always enjoyed Los Matematicos, what kind? Like Bachelor's & Master's? Operation Onesie Twosie was a special time wasn't it? Ascension, Vacation & the "let'em eat cake-ization" of virtual abdication thru willfully choosing a netless chasmistic abyss prior to even first sunset of the ascendancy. It was an OUTRAGE! (Then again...
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    Oh Jiminy!!
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    Ok then, before I go out, what would YOU hypothetically want your own Dr to say w/ "very high" positive bloods and the hypothetical negative biopsy? Didn't most of the 1st few replies comment that the OP's blood results should be enough to dx celiac? Along that path, the endoscopy is post-diagnostic. Confirms if pos, but ignored if neg isn't a dx flowchart...
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    I have no idea why so many are so adamantly going off on these tangents. Several of us answered the orig Q. (The "Does anyone know" answer is "no, no one can be sure".) The OP, Blevois, was already diagnosed by blood. The topic of the thread is not about getting a dx by biopsy.
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    Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm leaning towards thinking that you & everyone else already thought that before reading this 2005 article, even those that read it way back then. The article is "Challenging the Gluten Challenge" & is in no way limited to biopsies! Are we reading the same link? He discusses - no, disussED - blood...
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    I did chuckle a bit in finding that the article is from 2005. Besides it being from 2005, I don't see how much this relates to the OP's situation of already having a positive on the bloods. And to think *I* keep hearing accusations of going OT. (Which I disagreed w/, for the record) A lot has changed since 2005. Imho just about everyone who wrote...
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    The article's header is: This article appeared in the Autumn 2005 edition of Celiac.coms Scott-Free Newsletter. So, no, 7yo info shouldn't be expected to clear this up. Did the best current celiac blood tests even exist in 2005? We really need to use current info.
  8. tom
    Hi Emilem, I know I've seen forum members here talking about salicylate problems. You're certainly not alone in that. (Oh!! More than I thought. 1100+ entries using the 'Search Celiac.com w/ google' box up top.) Open Original Shared Link Plenty to read there. Hope you can get it figured out. Celiac can be such a pain throwing in all these extra issues...
  9. tom
    Oh damn! Missed the space jump. I don't even particularly like Tom Petty but Freefalling's chorus is bouncin 'round me 'ead.
  10. tom
    Suddenly proud that MY university actually teaches real Biology.
  11. tom
    Beware the Replicators! Also beware phlipover phluids. (Omg I struggled to remember that)
  12. tom
    Mickey always said to. In fact, the Mick gave little choice. "When", not "If" . . ... yet w/out seeming bossy.
  13. tom
    Oh please .... I'm not the one bolding or using allcaps in these misguided disagreements. If someone believes 3 months challenge is "needed to have any hope of a positive dx" (despite that being imo irrelevant in this thread, given an already-positive blood test) disregarding all the contrary evidence that it *is* possible to get DX'd on less than 3 months...
  14. tom
    I suppose it'd firstly depend on how light the gluten-light weeks were. Stanford's Head of GI wanted me on a 1/2 slice of bread/day for a month years ago & recent studies have concurred that high levels were overkill, per NIH, celiac.com article authors etc. It appears to me you were more light than that, mentioning cc & uninterrogated restaurants...
  15. tom
    Hi CaveMum, What a tough situation. I was just looking for one of the articles/studies I've read where the topic is basically "we should start giving celiac disease dx by blood test only", but failed to find it/them. As I remember it, they make the case w/out even involving the usual endoscopy/biopsy issues of all-too-common insufficient # of samples...
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    Hi mommida, I suppose I have more belief in the scientific method than you do and in the resultant incremental advances in knowledge. We know more today than we did 5 yrs ago & every year we'll know more than we do today. So, I don't believe it's "just guesses", tho if you do I'd think your comment would be more appropriately aimed at the post...
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    Ahhhhh sneaky Lisa snuck one in while I slowly typed. Was expecting mine to show up immed under Barty's. Looks disjointed now.
  18. tom
    I'd actually really like to know more about research on the topic in the post. As such, I was feeling Inquisitive rather than Irritated. OT P.S. I think I'm soon buying a wider-necked guitar. Always like seeing your av.
  19. tom
    Very interesting. I'd love to read up more on that. Remember where you saw that? Seems at odds w/ "several weeks to begin to heal" quote from Mayo.
  20. tom
    ? My comment that the two-challenge GI isn't what I would call a "good GI" is somehow seen as a personal attack on YOU? I find it hard to believe that any unbiased third-party observer would call that "picking a fight".
  21. tom
    Wouldn't the better GIs do both blood & endo/biopsy after a single gluten challenge, not setting up the need for a SECOND gluten challenge? Can't recall seeing this situation here before.
  22. tom
    The specific problem you should have is w/ the Dr not telling KikiB to continue the challenge post-serology in the first place. I specifically asked my question to clarify that. Not sure what about that is confusing. Do you think that the phrase "a case can be made" = "here I am, making this case!" ? It doesn't.
  23. tom
    Can't read the pdf until later but does several weeks = "quickly" in this context?
  24. tom
    Is there a word or 2 missing from this? Seems like a perfectly reasonable rhetorical question to make a reasonable point. But it's not really rhetorical when there actually *have* been Celiacs whose level of misery during a gluten challenge *has* altered their testing/challenge schedule - aka "decreased their chances". It's not unheard of and...
  25. tom
    Moderator's note: This discussion began in a topic started by a new member with several questions. It has been split out as a generic discussion of the question. There are differing views on this. What I perceive is that there is no one answer that fits everybody. Healing rates differ for many reasons, and the most significant factor is the amount of damage...
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