LouiseF

  On 2/3/2012 at 2:17 AM, burdee said:

After I was diagnosed with celiac disease and casein allergy, I abstained from those and also had continual gut pain. Later tests diagnosed 5 more delayed reaction (IgG and IgA) food allergies. Abstaining from those foods helped somewhat. However, continual gut pain influenced me to request tests for gut bacteria, parasites and yeasts. Over a 4 year period I was diagnosed with and treated for infections from 5 different gut bacteria, 2 parasites, and one fungus. Nevertheless some digestive pain continued until another doctor tested my stomach acid production and diagnosed low stomach acid which prevented me from completely digesting what I ate and caused bloating, gas and cramping pain. Now I can finally eat and digest normally with digestive supplements and abstinence from all my food allergens. I also continued to abstain from any kind of alcohol derived artificial sweetners, which can cause similar symptoms.

So I suggest you get a blood test (ELISA) for other delayed reaction food allergies, a stool test for gut bugs and a stomach acid production test to see if your digestion is impaired. (Good luck with that last one, because most docs are brainwashed by Big Pharma's acid blocker drug campaigns.)

Thank you for the nice response. My GI Dr said that he doesn't believe in food allergy testing ( because I asked him to do some). he felt they can be inaccurate.

I was tested for parasites by a naturopathic dr and my gi dr gave me an antibiotic about 6 months later just incase. So it is hard for me to stay away from definitive foods but I don't consume much sugar, dairy or meat. I have some but not much. After reading peoples posts it almost seems like I need to stay off of them 100% as a test.

I also took an acid reducer for a month through the GI dr as an experiment. No results. I am very much into herbs and natural health so I can discuss this new issue about acid with my naturopathic dr and see if there is something that she recommends.

I am so far from Big Pharma, I stay away from them. that is all the dr know. It is VERY sad. thanks again.

I did a post earlier stating that had intestinal pain for 25 years. I forgot to mention something important.

5 full years ago I found out that I have celiac disease.

I have been real strict about staying off of gluten ( as far as I know).

My intestinal pain never went away.

Last October I started with a new real bad pain in my gall bladder area.

Since then I have had ultrasound, Hida Scan, Ct Scan, colonoscopy. All test results came back negative.

I had bloodwork showing IgA deficient. Now my GI dr is perplexed and suggested I come here and see if someone can help me.

Endoscopy showed villa sprue damage as if I was still getting gluten. I don't see how.

I am trying to eat only warm foods, no food combinations that will promote fermenting of foods in my belly.

I take 30 billion pro-biotics. It all isn't making it go away. This pain has been here for 4 months now.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,

My GI Dr suggested I come here and look for some help because he is at the end of testing and doesn't know what else to do.

I was diagnosed with celiac disease 5 full years ago. Have been diligent about staying away from gluten. Each year I get my celiac disease tested and my numbers are always well below 10.

I had intestinal pain before this for 25 years. After getting off of gluten it never went away. Last October a new severe pain started in my gall bladder area. I have had an ultrasound, Hida scan, CT scan and colonoscopy. All test results came back that everything was fine. I had an endoscopy with a test and it showed that my villa spore was still damaged. To my dr that indicated I am still being exposed to gluten. I don't see how.

The pain now (4 months later) can be very bad in my gall bladder. He thought it was biliary dyskinesia and wants to take the gall bladder out. I would rather not.

He is sending me to a nutritionist next monday in the hopes that he can help me.

Anyone have any ideas of what this pain could be from?

I have a VERY healthy diet and in the past year I have lost 52 lbs.

I would appreciate any suggestions from anyone.

Thank you