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Thank you Shadow Ice Wolf, I appreciate your quick response. Hope you have a great day!

Hi, I got a copy of my blood work and my HLA-DQ8 is positive, could someone please let me know what that means??? Is that why they had me do the endoscopy??? Thanks in advance for all your help.

I too would be interested in any specific brand Vodka's. That is what I would prefer, but I would also need to know what I can mix it with?????

Hi All, Well, the Endoscopy this morning went fine. Feeling good. I was told to call back in a week to 10 days for results. Until then I am to follow a gluten free eating plan. I am in the process of figuring that out. LOL. Looks like it is not an easy thing to figure out. I did print out some information from this site and am going to try and do my...

Hi GFinDC, What a great article. It was very informative and well written. Also, thank you for letting me know that the results take a while to come back, that was a question I forgot to ask. In the meantime, would you suggest that I go on a gluten free diet after the testing or is there any further testing that would need to be done that would require...

Hi All, Just a quick update regarding my appointment that I had yesterday. The doctors were awesome! They wanted to schedule my Endoscopy for Friday morning but I have to be off a few of my meds for 5 - 7 days before they can do it. So they scheduled me for 9:00 AM next Monday. They were so nice and really wanted to do this asap, as they knew I was supposed...

Just a quick update. I am seeing two GI specialists on Tuesday morning. I had to really complain a lot to get this appt. My husband ended up calling the primary doctors office as well and that made them finally call me back. I told them they were sending me to the same GI doctor who had dropped the ball a year and a half ago and I would not see him again...

Thank you Marilyn R and gluten-free in DC, last night I put a heating pad across my stomach and that really helped a lot. It took the edge off the pain. And gluten-free I checked out the site you posted and now I can see what they are talking about and what they are looking for, that was very helpful. I tried calling around for another GI doctor today...

I want to thank you all so much. I already feel more in control with the information I have gained on this board. I am definitely going to ask for a copy of my tests as well as insist on 6 - 8 biopsies. I found out the GI they sent my information to a couple days ago is the same GI who did my colonoscopy well over a year ago and told me he would be checking...

Thank you toworryornottoworry and Marilyn R. I already feel better and you have made me feel very welcome. I really appreciate that you are sharing your knowledge with me on this. This is a new area for me and I really do not know much about Celiacs. My primary doctor is incredible, he is very kind and very thorough. As far as the GI doctor goes, I should...

Hi, So nice to meet another Lupie here. From what I understand, if you have one autoimmune disease your chances are higher to have other autoimmune diseases. I am just over 50 and had a colonoscopy last year, i thought that would have shown if I had Celiacs but later found out I was mistaken. At the time of the Colonoscopy the GI doctor said he was going...

Thank you sooo much for your response. I was concerned about what it would entail and you have really helped. I just got the Lupus diagnosis a couple of years ago and I only just accepted it recently. Your help means a lot to me.

Hi Everyone, I just got a call from my Dr.'s office that my blood tests were suggestive of Celiacs disease. I have Lupus and I know this is another autoimmune disease. They said I have to see a GI specialist to confirm the diagnosis. I was told to expect a call from a GI specialist tomorrow. Can you please tell me how they confirm that it is Celiacs...