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ARCHIVED A Little Scared
steve-o replied to jknnej's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
I had my endoscopy a couple weeks ago, and I was really nervous about it too....but it was so easy. The worst part is the anticipation. They had me gargle with some nasty stuff to numb my throat. Then the doctor told me to lie down on my side...and the next thing I remember, I was waking up in my bed at home. My girlfriend went with me to the appointment... -
ARCHIVED For The (former) Beer Drinkers Among Us...
steve-o posted a topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
You have probably heard by now about Bards Tale beer... a special gluten-free beer, which according to the reviews, actually tastes really good. If you haven't heard of it, here's their website: Open Original Shared Link Unfortunately for me (and possibly many of you) Bards Tale is only available in a few select states. I live in Texas where it's not... -
ARCHIVED How Long To Schedule Endoscopy?
steve-o replied to julie5914's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
It only took a week for me to get my endoscopy. However, the GI doctor I see has an "endoscopy center" located right in their office, which only services their patients. If your endoscopy is done at a hospital, where dozens of doctors send patients for endoscopy...this might explain why a longer wait is involved. -
ARCHIVED Accuracy Of Biopsy & Sampling Error
steve-o posted a topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
When my biopsy results came back as "perfectly normal", I was very surprised and somewhat skeptical...so I asked that they mail me a copy of my pathology report. It turns out that they only took 1 sample/biopsy from my small bowel. They also took a biopsy from my stomach, and one from the esophagus, but those were because of irritation due to reflux. ... -
ARCHIVED Blood Panel
steve-o replied to steve-o's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Thanks to everybody for your insight and advice. Personally, I'd prefer to a medical diagnosis, if possible...so I decided to go back on a gluten containing diet. I'm fortunate, in that I don't react as quickly or violently to gluten as many people on this board. I've been eating lots of bread and whole wheat cereal for the past couple days. I didn... -
Hi Everyone, I'm new here....been lurking for a couple weeks, but this is my first post. I have several of the classic symptoms of celiac disease, and my mother was recently diagnosed (blood and biopsy positive)....so I made an appointment with a GI doctor to get tested. He didn't want to do a blood panel (I'm assuming because he was fairly sure...