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  1. Scott Adams
    I agree with @trents and hopefully you can get a copy of the blood test results and share them here. Unfortunately negative results won't rule out non-celiac gluten sensitivity, which may be 10x more prevalent than celiac disease.
  2. Scott Adams
    For an MD to say "She said the ttg was concerning but not very high" or its "the most borderline case" he's seen shows a lack of understanding what the test results actually mean. The ttg results are currently the "gold standard" for celiac blood tests, and your son's results are double the cut off for celiac disease. This means the odds that he has celiac...
  3. Scott Adams
    I agree with everything @trents mentions, and if your symptoms went away on a 100% gluten-free diet do you really need a piece of paper saying you have celiac disease? Just stay gluten-free if the diet offers you relief.
  4. Scott Adams
    I do believe that it is time for full disclosure on food labels, and that msg should not be allowed to be hidden. For example, a label with Autolyzed Yeast should say MSG also.
  5. Scott Adams
    I think I read somewhere that Curry has become the #1 dish in England, but can't verify this. Yes, unfortunately some curry powders do contain gluten. I recently found this to be the case with one that I had purchased, and later tested with one of my few remaining Nima Sensors. The curry brand did have a warning on it that was so small I didn't notice it...
  6. Scott Adams
    Welcome to the forum Lynda! This article has a section in it call A Gluten Free Kitchen which might be helpful to you:
  7. Scott Adams
    Welcome to the forum! There is a period of detox after you go gluten-free, and for some it can be pretty intense. Be sure your diet is 100% gluten-free, but if that is the case, then you might be going through this. Depending on the level of damage to your intestines (I am assuming that you have been diagnosed with celiac disease), it can take...
  8. Scott Adams
    Welcome to the forum! Generally speaking eating out isn't a great idea unless you're sure the food is 100% gluten-free. Studies have shown that most restaurant food is cross-contaminated. This article should help to get you started:
  9. Scott Adams
    I've not heard of not being able to find General Mills cereals, at least not in the USA. Do they not have Cheerios, Honey nut Cheerios, etc., at your local market?
  10. Scott Adams
    To me the fact that your tTG results are over 5x the normal range, combined with the fact that one of your parents has celiac disease, strongly indicates that you have celiac disease. Even if your endoscopy results were negative it would make sense for you to avoid gluten (but don't go gluten-free until all tests are completed, and you need to eat gluten...
  11. Scott Adams
    A curry is also a dish, usually from India, but they also have curry dishes in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and even China.
  12. Scott Adams
    Bosket Bread Company LLC of Leavenworth, Washington is recalling 54 units total of the 15 bread products, because it may contain undeclared soy, wheat, milk, sesame, or egg. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to soy, wheat, milk, sesame, egg run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products. Bosket...
  13. Scott Adams
    In my case, rather than mask allergies, celiac disease definitely magnified my allergies, especially to various pollens and mold. I had to take allergy shots for years up until I got diagnosed with celiac disease and went on a gluten-free diet. Soon afterwards nearly all of my pollen allergies went away and for the first time in my life I could breathe through...
  14. Scott Adams
    Some people are also sensitive to the amount of xanthan gum, guar gum, etc., that is often added to gluten-free breads to make them not crumble and all apart:
  15. Scott Adams
    Apparently lentils are often contaminated with wheat as well. I still wonder if you're not getting contamination, but it could also be some other trigger.
  16. Scott Adams
    Welcome to the forum. I just want to mention that you created a blog post, which is totally fine, but this seems a bit more like a forum post, so be sure to post there if you're hoping for lots of comments. This article might be helpful:
  17. Scott Adams
    Do you include oats in your diet? If so, around 10% of celiacs also react to oat avenin in a similar way that they do to gliadin in wheat, rye and barley gluten.
  18. Scott Adams
    At @trents mentioned, in Europe they are now diagnosing celiac disease if your tTG levels are 10x the reference range, and yours is way over that. Here is an article on this that you could share with your doctor. I'm not sure if a biopsy would make sense in your case, but no matter what the biopsy results end up showing, as sometimes they could be negative...
  19. Scott Adams
    This article may also be helpful to teach you more about the standard blood testing procedure:
  20. Scott Adams
    Welcome to the forum @Emjean, it seems that your current experiment with a gluten-free diet might at least have guided you to a possible cause of your symptoms, and to get tested for celiac disease via endoscopy you'd need to eat 2 slices of wheat bread a day (or equivalent) for at least 2 weeks prior to an endoscopy, but if it turns out negative you could...
  21. Scott Adams
    I never tried it, but have heard that Ben-Gay cream helps.
  22. Scott Adams
    Most definitely, and we have summarized the important ones over the years in these two categories: https://www.celiac.com/celiac-disease/celiac-disease-amp-related-diseases-and-disorders/schizophrenia-mental-problems-and-celiac-disease/ https://www.celiac.com/celiac-disease/celiac-disease-amp-related-diseases-and-disorders/depression-and-celiac-disease/
  23. Scott Adams
    It can definitely cause swelling. Whenever I get cross-contamination, at least before I began taking AN-PEP enzymes, my abdomen would swell up for at least 2-3 days. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with water retention.
  24. Scott Adams
    I only had it on the back of my thumb, but I recall that when if flared up any tough whatsoever made it worse. Scratching it, which is all I wanted to do, was the worst, as it broke the blisters and made it looks horrible, and it still itched just the same.
  25. Scott Adams
    This is actually a very commonly asked question here, and you can see this as there are over 1,000 posts about it: https://www.celiac.com/search/?q=kissing&quick=1 I think it's definitely important for celiacs to avoid regular amounts of cross-contamination, which could happen when you are kissing. This is another of those sensitive topics...
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