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wow that is very weird because I used to use Worcestershire Sauce in cooking alot and I recently looked at the ingredient list on my Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce and it had wheat in the ingredient list.

Autumn my GD turned 2 in July and Blaze my dalmatian we rescued her May 2007; she was deemed unadoptable becuase of her age. She's a doll, 14-1/2 years old.

Thanks, no I have never had a total IgA test before. I assume this is something I can request from my doctor?

Off topic here but is that a Great Dane in your profile pic? I have one so always looking for fellow dane lovers.

I'm really confused. I had done Enterolab and food intolerance testing around the same time.

Enterolab says no reaction:

Fecal anti-casein (cow

Well no wonder I've felt so crappy. At least now I have answers and I know what I need to do.

A) Gluten Sensitivity Stool and Gene Panel Complete *Best test/best value

Fecal Antigliadin IgA 8 (Normal Range <10 Units)

Fecal Antitissue Transglutaminase IgA 10 Units (Normal Range <10 Units)

Quantitative Microscopic Fecal Fat Score <300 Units (Normal Range <300 Units)

Fecal anti-casein (cow

Hi,

My name is Kim. I've been suffering with various symptoms for about 10 years. Back then I was diagnosed as having fibromyalgia. Each new symptom I got no matter how unusual my doctor would attribute to the fibro and say no other testing was needed. I've had doctors suggest I lose a few pounds, get a hobby, find a man (before I got married) and oh maybe I was depressed so here are some antidepressants. arg!@

The last year I've had symptoms of diarhea, bloating, abdominal pain, joint/muscle pain, headaches. I went to a naturopath last year and was told I have food intolerances of: eggs, casein, peanuts and yeast. So I followed a restricted diet and while most symptoms improved some still remained. Last fall I went back to my regular doctor who sent me for an abdominal ultrasound. It found several smallish polyps in my gallbladder. He said they should not cause the symptoms I was having so he referred me to a general surgeon. The surgeon did a endoscopy last month. Before the endoscopy I started reading up on celiacs and seemed to have a lot of the symptoms they were noting. The day of the endoscopy I asked the surgeon if he could do a biopsy for celiacs since he was there anyways.

I got my results last week and much to my disappointment he said the sample looked completely normal but he only took 1 sample. He said I had a few stomach polyps and was confused as to why I still have symptoms. I asked him if he would consider doing a blood test for celiacs. He said it wasn't needed because the biopsy was normal. His only other suggestion was to schedule me for a colonscopy and stool sample analysis (for c-diff, parasites) next month. Other than that he can't do anything else for me. I just need to go home and "live my life."

To me this appalling and unacceptable. *sigh* Last week I order the gluten sensitivity/gene panel and the stool test for acute/chronic colitis. Just waiting for my test kit to arrive. I guess being in Canada it takes a bit longer to get here.

I should add here that for the last 15 years my thyroid slowly got bigger and bigger. Every year I would go through the usual TSH test and antibody test. Everything always normal. Finally late 2005 I was having troubles with the thyroid compressing on my windpipe so my dr. referred me to an ENT who decided it should definately come out. After the surgery he said he had only planned to remove one lobe but ended up removing 90% of it. He said that was the biggest, nastiest thyroid he ever saw and my antibody tests kept coming back normal because there was nothing left of it to attack. The pathology found I have Hashimoto's disease; dx in 2006.

Just hope I can find some answers and get on the path to feeling better. Stupid doctors.