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  1. RMJ
    Please keep eating gluten until your endoscopy so you get accurate results!
  2. RMJ
    PhD Pharmacologist
  3. RMJ
    If you go by Mayo clinic reference levels, your 5 year old is within the total IgA range. I found another site that had 1-5 year olds 20-152 mg/dL, so your 5 year old is just barely above that. Pediatric antibody reference levels
  4. RMJ
    Total IgA was measured and was a little high. IF it had been low, then the TT IgG antibody test would have been done (reflex). It was high, so the TT IgG antibody test was not done. So the only question is why the total IgA was a little high. Lab normal ranges for total IgA tend to vary a bit, so that slight elevation of total IgA is probably not...
  5. RMJ
    That test is for diabetes mellitus, what about diabetes insipidus? Diabetes insipidus
  6. RMJ
    Excellent idea, knitty kitty.
  7. RMJ
    It sounds like you’re not dehydrated but over-hydrated. Too much water can lead to the symptoms you list. Urine should not be colorless. If drinking less water makes you feel better, why not just drink less water? Too much water intake
  8. RMJ
    Looking at the prescribing information (see section 11 in link) CREON does not have any ingredients that would be expected to contain gluten. The ingredients are all pretty refined and thus also unlikely to be contaminated. If the enzymes were produced by bacteria one would have to look into the media the bacteria were grown in, but this is NOT the case...
  9. RMJ
    If the NSAID is a COX-2 inhibitor it shouldn’t have the typical adverse effects on the gastrointestinal system that COX-1 inhibitors have. Sucralfate is another drug that is sometimes taken to protect the gastrointestinal tract from NSAID effects. It works by forming a protective layer.
  10. RMJ
    My TTG IgA antibodies came down to normal in a year. My DGP IgA antibodies took six (yes, 6) years! I think you’re doing well.
  11. RMJ
    If you order the labs yourself, and do it now, you also don’t have to worry about a doctor giving up on a possible celiac diagnosis if tests are negative, because you can do the gluten challenge and order them again.
  12. RMJ
    If you don’t have a doctor or insurance, how are you going to get the blood test? I ask because if you’ve only been off of gluten for about two months and you do have celiac disease you MIGHT still get a positive antibody test now. You wouldn’t be able to believe a negative because of two months gluten free, but you could believe a positive. I don’t...
  13. RMJ
    What are the results of your endoscopy? Were biopsies taken? There are other possible blood tests for celiac disease - deamidated gliadin peptide (DGP) IgA and IgG. Some patients only show positive on one of those.
  14. RMJ
    If it is the name brand Lexapro, the other ingredients besides escitalopram are: talc, croscarmellose sodium, microcrystalline cellulose/colloidal silicon dioxide, magnesium stearate, hypromellose, titanium dioxide and polyethylene glycol. The croscarmellose sodium, microcrystalline cellulose and hypromellose are all derivatives of cellulose, usually...
  15. RMJ
    SSRi stands for Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor. By inhibiting reuptake of serotonin it increases the level in the brain - thus acting as an antidepressant.
  16. RMJ
    Escitalopram is the generic name of the drug. To look up exact inactive ingredients one needs the name of the company who manufactures the drug, which you would have to find out from your pharmacy. It is usually on the container with the prescription, although sometimes abbreviated. Abbvie or Allergan manufacture the brand name Lexapro. There are a...
  17. RMJ
    You said you took Lexapro last year and it helped - if you didn’t have side effects perhaps consider taking it again? From what I can find online the ingredients should not have any gluten in them. If you post the name of the generic manufacturer here I can try to look up those ingredients for you. Stress/anxiety can definitely affect the bowels. I...
  18. RMJ
    I would ask to see the actual pathologist’s report of the biopsies rather than rely on what a nurse said on a phone call.
  19. RMJ
    I would definitely want to get a copy of the pathologists’s report on the biopsies, not just the GI doctor’s summary of the report.
  20. RMJ
    Have your symptoms also come back? Or is it just the blood tests that back up.
  21. RMJ
    A pathologist may recommend clinical correlation instead of giving a definite diagnosis if they just are evaluating the biopsies and don’t know the rest of the medical history. There IS clinical correlation. There is a positive antibody test, and two possible symptoms (not growing as expected and constipation). One thing you can do is a repeat antibody t...
  22. RMJ
    An endomysial antibody IGA of 1:160 is definitely positive, not slightly positive. It is four dilutions away from the normal of 1:10. This test is very specific for celiac disease. Tissue Transglutaminase antibody of 17 with a standard range of 0-3 is also definitely positive - I don’t know where the “celiacs normally have over 40” comes from. The ...
  23. RMJ
    It was a last minute luncheon with coworkers who had just been laid off that day so I didn’t have time to prepare!
  24. RMJ
    I once just had white rice when going to lunch with coworkers at a Thai restaurant.
  25. RMJ
    Perhaps something from this website would help to convince her. Coeliac Australia Or here, which says after a positive test diagnosis is confirmed by a small bowel biopsy. Health Direct (from gov.au)
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