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  1. trents
    Most likely, you are getting some gluten in your food somewhere. Manufactured food products are always subject to formulation changes and your pantry needs to be rechecked. Every time you purchase mainstream processed food items the ingredient label needs to be checked. Don't assume that what was once gluten free is still gluten free. Also, are you still...
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    "Bilirubin is a brown and yellow fluid that’s a byproduct of the essential process of the breakdown of red blood cells (RBCs). This substance is a major component of bile, an important digestive fluid that’s cleaned from the blood by the liver. If the liver is damaged, bilirubin may leak into the bloodstream, which can lead to jaundice, characterized by ...
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    No, they don't. Normally, the first step in checking for celiac disease is to take a blood sample and have it checked for antibodies that are associated with celiac disease. There is still a lot of ignorance in the medical community as a whole concerning celiac disease. Simply put, it just isn't yet on the radar of many physicians. I would go to your...
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    Michele2977, OP states in her original post that total IGA was not low.
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    What kind of specialist do you speak of? I would think medical doctors inquiring about mental health in connection with celiac disease would be very rare. Most medical doctors have a hard time connecting the dots with regard physical medical disorders when it comes to celiac disease.
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    You mention elevated bilirubin. One of the known health risks associated with celiac disease is hepatitis. About 18% of celiacs will have elevated liver enzymes. In fact, that is what led to my celiac diagnosis about 20 years ago. I had chronically elevated liver enzymes (ALT, AST) which was idiopathic. I had very minor GI symptoms and was almost a "silent...
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    Lyns5201, welcome to the forum! I have not heard of proteinuria be connected with celiac disease but we are discovering new health issues connected with celiac disease all the time. Have you been diagnosed with celiac disease?
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    Susan, I think you may have the rating system backwards. +1 and +2 foods would represent the weakest reactions. So the author is saying that after a period of time he was able to reintroduce those foods that did not give strong allergic reactions in the testing.
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    In view of the growing intolerance and hostility in the world toward Christians, as a follower of Jesus I sometimes think about not being able to get gluten free food if I were jailed for my faith.
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    Foul smelling and excessive flatus is a common symptom of celaic disease but not pneumatosis as far as I know. SIBO and H.Pylori are commonly associated with celiac disease so small bowel ulcers are probably more common in the celiac population than in the general population. As far as the polyp goes, small bowel cancer is more common in the celiac population...
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    What's keeping you and your partner from going in for testing to find out if your suspicions of having celiac disease are correct or if there is something else going on? There are blood antibody tests that are very reliable for detecting celiac disease. But you would need to be eating regular amounts of gluten for about two months before testing to have them...
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    Why can't you eat gluten free and work? Can't you take your own food from home?
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    Welcome to the forum, Riley72! Many or most of the symptoms you describe are common in the celiac community. You mention you had a celiac panel done almost a year ago. What were the specific results? For the antibody panel to be valid you must be eating regular amounts of gluten daily for 6-8 weeks before the test and for the endoscopy/biopsy to be valid...
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    The tTG-IGA at 29.5 is not borderline IMO. It is definitely positive and furthermore, the tTG-IGA is the centerpiece of celiac antibody testing. "Duodenal mucosa with focal mild villous blunting and patchy mildly increased intraepithelial lymphocytes." The reason they send out the biopsy for microscopic analysis is because the damage to the villi is...
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    Gbear, welcome to the forum! Your experience is the same as innumerable other participants on this forum. Many doctors are very ignorant with regard to gluten related disorders and just don't know enough to tell their patients to continue eating regular amounts of gluten until testing is complete. You did not say whether beginning the gluten free...
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    irish11, Celiac disease is the only cause for DH. Have you been tested for celiac disease?
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    Celiacs sometimes react to oat protein and the dairy protein casein like they do gluten, especially until there is substantial healing of the small bowel villi. You might try eliminating these two things from your diet for a few weeks and see if there is improvement. It is common for celiacs to develop other, non-gluten, food intolerances because of...
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    Are you still consuming oats and dairy?
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    My wife gets her curry in capsule form. Must be an asian meal in a pill.
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    Move over to gluten free hot cereals. It's a little more trouble but readily available and more nutritious because there is less processing. I use gluten-free oatmeal, gluten-free buckwheat and something else that is gluten-free from Bob's Red Mill called Mighty Tasty Hot Cereal. I rotate among those during the week.
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    I had added more to my post after you responded. Please read again. Pretesting recommendations from Mayo are the consumption of the equivalent amount of gluten found in two slices of wheat bread daily at least two weeks before an endoscopy/biopsy and 6-8 weeks before the serum antibody test. The endoscopy/biopsy is considered the gold standard of celiac...
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    Has you already begun a gluten free diet between the time of the endoscopy/biopsy and the serological antibody testing? The immune system of some celacs responds atypically such that the antibody tests are negative while the biopsy is positive. You might seek out a more complete or "full" celiac panel which includes the "Other" tests discussed in this...
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    Nausea and vomiting are common with celiac disease when gluten is ingested. But it could also be unrelated and caused by many other things. Untreated celiac disease (treated by going gluten free) can lead to neurological problems. The dizziness could be tied to that but could also be an unrelated problem. If you will be going for further testing then you...
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    It is possible you are not a celiac but not likely. The positive tTG Ab is usually telltale for celiac disease. Your next diagnostic step would logically be an endoscopy with a biopsy of the lining of the small bowel to check for damage to the "villi". What symptoms do your family and friends see you having? Many celiacs have few noticeable digestive...
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    Celiac disease is not a gluten allergy. It is an autoimmune response that is triggered by the ingestion of gluten. This involves a completely different pathway in the immune system than would an allergy. It is also possible that someone could have an allergy to gluten. Problems with dairy can be caused by the inability to digest lactose (milk sugar)...
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