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Age 81, M, well until acute autoimmune illness Xmas 2009. Extensive investigation, recovered gradually on vitamins only. No notable GI symptoms

Celiac tests Xmas 2012 at my request biopsy + (Marsh 2)  ab + . Strict gluten-free diet since. Brother celiac undiagnosed for years

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    After this post I will leave the subject of night blindness to others. Thanks to those who have offered suggestions and to Scott Adams for creating the forum. It is a fine website and I also like the review articles by Jefferson Adams. I have suffered from patchy night blindness in the summer only for the last 8 years. The winter reprieve is now less complete...
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    On 4th June I posted on the ehealth vision forum under the title seasonal night vision scotomas, but there were no replies. I have just had my eyes tested by an optometrist. Acuity is 20/25. She did field testing and Topcon tomography and did not find anything alarming for my age. However in dim lighting against a light background I can sometimes see a round...
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    A very good suggestion GFinDC. I have thought for some time that I should have made the title of the topic night vision celiac because it may have nothing to do with celiac disease even if it started at the same time. Key words are so important. I will search first and may post on one of these sites later. I have now searched quite extensively and have...
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    Thanks Cristiana. It was Mistyx7 and night driving. Migraine type is very personal but does not appear to be closely connected to celiac or my peculiar scotomas. If you think going gluten-free has improved it that deserves a separate topic!
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    Scotomas returned for the 7th year on the 24th February despite liver pâté and have varied since with 3 brief gaps. I have always had migraine, latterly occurring more than once a month, usually of basilar or retinal type with aura (but no headache) lasting less than 5 minutes. A recent bout looked like a TIA and led to a CT scan which revealed clear major v...
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    Thanks for your ideas GFinDC. My mother had rickets as a child and thyrotoxicosis after pregnancy treated surgically. Her mother and both her mother's sibs died of diabetes. My BP is around 115/75, wt about 63kg for years, blood glucose 6.6mmol/l pp (n<7.8) last year. I have the genetic basis for celiac - eg HLA-DQA1 Rs2187668 TT (risk allele for celiac...
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    The scotomas this year disappeared finally on the 18th October. Are they caused by toxins, the immune system or malabsorption? From the 7th Sept – 14th Oct I avoided all tomato products. On the 22nd September I had a CLA-1 blood screen for IgE allergies by the Biolab Medical Unit, London. Inhalants were all negative including birch and pellitory (a relative o...
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    Cristiana - you are another celiac with night vision problems when driving. Have you looked at the topic Celiac Night Vision? If there are other celiacs with night vision problems which do not respond to vitamin A puzzling their opticians and eye doctors we might get experts interested enough to investigate why! I am admittedly in my second childhood, but...
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    I have confirmed celiac disease (family history of celiac and autoimmune disease, biopsy, enzymes) and recently had my genome done by 23andme. On websites such as eupedia.com there are lists of genes contributing to disease liability. The HLA-DQA1 Rs 2187668 risk allele T appears to be the strongest indicator (I am TT) with an odds ratio of 6, but other...
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    Here is a description of the scotomas to help others with celiac night vision problems compare their symptoms. The scotomas are usually at a maximum about this season. In the night against a dim ceiling they are round dark areas affecting central vision about 20 degrees across. At first light they seem to get slightly smaller and more triangular in shape...
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    In the UK we celiacs are grateful to non-celiac gluten avoiders. Since last year restaurants have to list allergens and many have gluten-free menus, which suggests that more than 1 percent of the population is avoiding gluten. The U.S. Is usually ahead in these things and I guess your labelling of food products is as good as ours with gluten-free prominent...
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    Next update! Scotomas disappeared as noted in September and returned on the 2nd March 2015. They disappeared again twice but have been present continuously since April. This is now the 6th year. They are more persistent with fewer gaps each year but have always vanished for five months in the winter. I usually eat baked tomatoes but ate them raw a few times...
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    After doing the IgE test I was sent September nettle pollen data for Worcester (which included all members of the Urticaceae). Levels decreased to low about the 11th and almost disappeared by the end of the month. The scotomas could therefore be a reaction to pollen but I will perhaps try to do an IgE test for tomato allergy next year if the scotomas return...
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    As people still seem to be reading this thread here is an update. After eight bouts of the scotomas through the summer (they were continuous through June - August) they disappeared at the end of September. We live in southern England and the National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit at the University of Worcester kindly sent me pollen counts for near...
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    Colleen: see posting 5 July 2013. The ophthalmologist wrote ' to be honest I could not find any pathology to account for this scotoma . . . ' NatureChick: sun exposure and optometrist see posting 1 Aug 2013 The only reason I am posting all this is because this symptom so far appears to be unique. In case it has a celiac basis this seems to be one place...
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