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Newly diagnosed
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@Bronwyn W Working with your medical provider, you could do a complete blood count test. If you were bleeding say from an ulcer in the stomach (and let's hope not), your red blood cells could be low and your hemoglobin low as well. Your stools may show up as the proverbial "dark and tarry," indicative of a bleeding site further away from the anus. Basically...
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@Joe R Thanks for clarifying! That's what I've heard, too, about Italy, but I've never been, sad face. Almost no one on these boards would recommend the approach of your GI doc, and would instead stick with yours. (Maybe if a "glutening" causes so many discomforts and inconveniences that it just overwhelms your life, and you have nothing else to do....
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@Joe R are you saying that while traveling in Italy as a person with Celiac disease, you are eating gluten-containing foods and taking prednisone to dampen down the flares? Plumbago
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High school and starting a 504plan in FLORIDA
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Intolerante al gluten en el embarazo
plumbago replied to Paulo De Paraguay's topic in Introduce Yourself / Share Stuff
Decir la verdad, no, yo no me doy cuenta de unas complicaciones que puedan resultar de una incidente aislado de comer gluten cuando una este embarazada. Pero si, hay complicaciones de comer gluten regularmente en una mujer embarazada que tiene celiac. Bastante. Nuestro consejo sera NO LO HAGA! En mi opinion – y yo no soy una medica – nada le va a pasar des... -
Intolerante al gluten en el embarazo
plumbago replied to Paulo De Paraguay's topic in Introduce Yourself / Share Stuff
Buenos dias de los EEUU! Denos unos minutos para hacer una traduccion y un poco de research y luego estaremos en contacto. Plumbago -
Inconclusive biopsy results
plumbago replied to Lizy487's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
The endoscopy you just had done - did it include biopsies? Or were the findings you cite what was observed by the person doing the scope? From the sounds of it, it seems like celiac is a likely possibility. Might as well get serology done. Which part of the GI tract was this? Small intestine? Something else? Plumbago -
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Decreasing tTiga?
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Decreasing tTiga?
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Decreasing tTiga?
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Decreasing tTiga?
plumbago replied to ErinV's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Hello and welcome, Could you please publish the reference ranges for each test, including tTG-IgA and the endomysial antibodies? When your daughter had her endoscopy, was she eating gluten? I agree with your position, I would not want to subject her to another endoscopy and biopsy. It sounds like your doctor is saying that since her tiredness is... -
Hello @VioletM Has your boyfriend circled back to his doctor to work with him or her on managing the levels of valproic acid / Depakote (as we call it in the US)? This is a medication that has hand tremor as a side effect, in addition to other effects, including neurological, and it requires regular blood level monitoring to make sure he is in the therapeutic...
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Abscesses on legs
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Abscesses on legs
plumbago replied to LookingForAnswers101's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
@LookingForAnswers101 If you can tell by now, has cutting out gluten helped? -
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Abscesses on legs
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Abscesses on legs
plumbago replied to LookingForAnswers101's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Ok, thanks. I'm so glad to hear you are in the hands of a dermatologist. I hope he/she has given you 1) a diagnosis; and 2) a plan of care with a couple of options so that you have buy-in and comfort with it. I have some ideas, but not having seen the abscesses or you in person, it doesn't really make sense for me to kind of ... speculate further. But your... -
Abscesses on legs
plumbago replied to LookingForAnswers101's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Hi there, Can you describe them a little more? Do they ooze? Do they itch? Do they spread like a rash or appear like a "boil?" Has a doctor / dermatologist looked at them? Are they big? Do they seem like they could get infected if not careful? Do they disappear? (You say you get them "2/3" months, assuming you meant "2 to 3" - so have the ones that came... -
A relative has opened another door for me on this issue -- the possibility of menopause raising HDL. Most studies suggest that menopause decreases HDL-C, however, one study found that often it's increased. "Surprisingly, HDL cholesterol was higher (p < 0.001) in postmenopausal women by 11%. Further, the number of women who had low HDL cholesterol...
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I have taken thiamine on and off (just not at this exact moment), and I’m not sure it's made any difference. Yes, I almost always “fast” (12 hours NPO) for blood tests, as do a great many other Americans, so I tend to think that’s not it. All I can say is that the mystery continues. I could do some speculating here…well, heck, let me go ahead and specu...
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The last time my vitamin D was very low, according to a lab test, was before I was diagnosed with celiac disease. I've been supplementing ever since, and now the numbers on the lab tests are within their normal ranges, oftentimes way above. I've also been supplementing with methylcobalamin (B12) since I was low before diagnosis in 2010, and now I'm fine....
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Yes, well, that's what we have been told, probably ever since the different types of cholesterol were identified. It's what most of our primary care providers are still telling us, it's what the commercials tell us. But researchers (up until now at any rate) have been learning a great deal about HDL. Nevertheless, the universe of what we still don't know...