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Hi everyone, thank you so much for you replies. Point taken - I should trust my body! I just need to know... Sure, I feel crappy if I eat pasta for a couple of days, but, is it dangerous.. I mean, REALLY dangerous. I'm thinking of the kind of illnesses that I read are connected to celiac disease: cancer, arthrithis etc...??

After >10 yrs of health issues (mainly diarrhea, bloating, periodic weight loss, loss of energy, anemia, excema etc) which both I and my Dr thought were related to some GI-problem, I believe I have identified the cause... Dr thought IBS first, then some other food intolerance. About a year ago I started to suspect gluten. After removig it totaly from my...

Dear Michelle, There's clearly something weird with your thyroid gland... I too had urticaria - it itched like crazy all over my body for months, so I know only too well what you're talking about... It turned out I was hyperthyroid. Thyroid problems frequently cause urticaria. And depression. And weight gain... (Depression and weght gain is typical...

Wow - I had no idea it was this common to experience some kind of withdrawal... Thanks everyone for your comments/advice. /Cami

Hi, I've just gone gluten free for the second time (had to start eating gluten again for a biopsy... ). Anyway, i'm experiencing the weirdest thing. All my symptoms gets really bad for the first few (gluten free)days before fading away (bloating, abdominal pain, excema, aphtous ulcers in mouth....). Now, the first time I cut out gluten I experienced...

Hi, I just returned from the biopsy (what an awful test!!!). However, everything went fine and this is what the doc said: Small bowel looked fine. I have some inflammed areas in by stomach. (This I could see myself - it looked like faint blushing on the stomach wall). He took biopsies from my small bowel and stomach and saind I would get the results in...

Thanks for your advice! I'll let you know how it goes /Cami

Hi, I'm about to have the biopsy done in a few day's and I'm VERY nervous.... Do you recommend that I take the numbing medicine - or can you do without drugs (I would rather not take any medicines). /Camil

Hi, don't really remember (the test was taken a year ago and at that point in time I changed my diet quite frequently to find out if I was intolerant to different stough...). So what does "borderline" antigliadin antibodies mean...? /Camil

Hi everyone, I finally phoned my PCP (who took my intitial tests a year ago and said I tested negative....) to check out the results. It turns out my TGA level was normal (<5) and the gliadin antibodies were "borderline positive". What do you make of this (I'm seriously confused...) Cami

....do you have to stay on gluten after a gluten free period for a blood test and a biopsy to show up positive???? /Cami

Ohh, by the way. I forgot to write that I've had really strange thyroid problems in the past as well (overfunction of the thyroid gland)... which they were never able to diagnose. I've since recovered from that, but it makes me wonder... there is a connection between tyroid problems and celiac disease, isn't there? /Cami

Thanks for your advice! I really appreciate it. A weird thing is that I LOST weight when I stopped eating gluten... (I wasn't overweight to start with). Arn't you supposed to loose weight with celiac disease? One final question - do I need to see the doc again (I've never had the biopsy) or should I just stay off gluten. Ciao Cami

Thanks for replying!! I'm wondering - if you are gluten sensetive despite negative tests, does that mean that you don't have celiac disease (and that you can consume small amounts of gluten)??? Ie - is it another condision or a milder form of celiac disese?? /Cami

Dear all, After 11 yrs with periods of IBS, hives, iron deficiency and a number of other syptoms (like fatigue, bruising really easily ant bleeding spontaniously from my gums) I now belive my probems are gluten-related. And I really need som help from you guys, since the doctors don't seem to be very experienced with these issues... I first started...