jacflash

I am new to the world of Celiacdom and the whole online culture of the community. Please forgive me if this is a silly or offensive question; it is meant sincerely. In light of the very high accuracy of the tTG test, and in light of studies showing that a tTG over 30 is 100% indicative of celiac disease except under clearly-understood circumstances, why...

I probably went almost 40 years undiagnosed. I am 41 and we think I got it when I was 3. It has had an enormous, incalculable impact on my life. I have managed to cobble together a family and a reasonable-looking career but I've spent days on end in an exhausted depressed dyspeptic fog telling *myself* I was being lazy. I have never actually been divorced...

My sense, and this is possibly unkind and unfair, is that "candida" sells an awful lot of supplements and books, and provides a lot of possibly-false hope to people who have clusters of symptoms that regular docs can't seem to deal with. I am highly highly skeptical of the whole thing. I am especially highly skeptical of it because if it panned out scientifically...

I've had Addison's since 1987 and am currently awaiting test results to see if I have Celiac. I am wondering if you mean that you believe that everyone with Addison's ALSO has Celiac or that they are misdiagnosed and do not actually have Addison's? The former is an interesting question. I suspect the answer is that lots of people with an "autoimmune...