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  1. trents
    IGA tTG is not the same as total IGA. IGA tTG is a particular antibody associated strongly with celiac disease. Total IGA is the whole mix of IGA antibodies which includes tTG but others as well. If total IGA is low it can drive down individual IGA scores, including the tTG IGA.
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    The information you give seems incomplete. Did you have another test done to measure total IGA that showed total IGA was low or is the comment to that effect in your post just putting forth a possibility? Low total IGA can result in false negatives for the IgA TTG result. The data with the IgA TTG is confusing but it looks like the [<7] must refer...
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    Please don't project your own anecdotal experience on everyone else. The term "gluten" is sometimes loosely applied to proteins found in grains other than wheat, barley and rye but for the celiac/NCGS community the term "gluten" has a more specific reference. While it is probably true that we rely too heavily on grains in our diet, it is also true that they...
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    Welcome to the forum, @DMulder47! How long do you guess you suffered from celiac disease before getting diagnosed and going gluten free? Many of the medical problem spinoffs from celiac disease are related to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. This is the part that most doctors don't tell you about. The constant inflammation in the small bowel...
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    You only have a short time to append pictures before the edit feature times out when you create a post. Look for the three dots in the upper right corner of a new post window.
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    Benadryl is an antihistamine. It should have no bearing on celiac antibody levels.
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    Cough drops or Vaporub or what? Vicks makes different products.
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    If you are being consistent at avoiding gluten, your numbers should have been falling by now unless you are cross reacting to dairy.
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    So, you original question was being asked out of curiosity about a possible connection between low vitamin D levels and past medical problems rather than trying to correct any current medical problems. Is this correct?
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    Most of the people I know that get their expensive dental care done in Mexico are snow birds who winter in Yuma every year anyway.
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    Tooth enamel loss and jawbone demineralization are common in the celiac community, especially since it typically takes many years to get a celiac diagnosis. I just had a front tooth implant competed last week and it cost me over $8k out of pocket. The tooth enamel had been "resorbed" the dentist said. My health insurance did not have dental coverage at all...
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    Are you still having seizures, pain, head and face swelling?
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    I would think the brain hemorrhage would have more to do with causing seizures than a vitamin D deficiency. Is the vitamin D deficiency now corrected? D is a very important vitamin, almost a master vitamin in the body.
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    The idea that grain fed cows produce milk with gluten does not have a scientific basis. Gluten is a protein. The digestive process of the cow breaks down the proteins in the grain into constituent amino acids which are then broken down even further into smaller biochemical compounds before they enter the cows blood stream. Then those biochemicals are used...
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    Yes, I would think a mask would help but you would need to research what kind would be needed to be effective. Nonetheless, it is not an ideal vocation for someone with celiac disease.
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    Yes. You are breathing wheat dust which gets trapped in your mucous and travels down to your gut. Lack of symptoms does not guarantee that no inflammation is happening in the gut. Besides, you may be one of a small percentage or celiacs who do not have gut manifestation but only skin manifestation (dermatitis herpetiformis). What kind of testing have you...
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    Welcome to the forum, @Mike5572! How quickly healing of the gut happens depends on many things such as: 1. Age 2. How much damage was done to the small bowel villi before going gluten-free 3. Consistency in sticking to the gluten-free diet 4. General health and vigor. Some have stronger "constitutions" than others and just heal more...
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    "Pasture raised eggs"? That sounds like it would apply to cows rather than chickens. Do you mean "free range" chickens? Another factor here with regard to food sensitivities in addition to gluten is not only what you eat but how much of it and how often. There often is a threshold of toleration for certain food sensitivities that if you stay below it...
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    @LadyofLove you might want to have some more general food sensitivity testing done:
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    So, you say you had a TTG IGG score of 99. Did they also do the TTG IGA antibody test for celiac disease? The TTG IGA is usually the front line test done, combining good specificity for celiac disease with good sensitivity. TTG IGG is typically a secondary test done when total IGA is low or if someone has already been practicing a low gluten diet. It isn...
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    Have you been checked for H. Pylori? Peptic ulcers? GERD? Hiatal hernia? Pancreatitis?
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    Have you been diagnosed with celiac disease? You don't really say.
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    Welcome to the forum, @LadyofLove! I'm afraid you have some misconceptions about being able to eventually go back to consuming dairy safely. That is not guaranteed. It is true that many celiacs are able to return to consuming dairy once there is thorough healing of their damaged small bowel villous lining, but not all can. And even if they can, thorough...
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    Gastro docs do endoscopies. But the weeks of 10gm of daily gluten consumption still applies for that procedure as it does for the blood antibody testing. Unfortunately, many celiacs find that once they have been off of gluten for a significant period of time and then try to go back on it for the gluten challenge for testing that they have stronger reactions...
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    Welcome to the forum, @RTesp! Dairy intolerance is very common in the celiac population but often improves with time as healing of the atrophied villous lining of the small progresses. Thorough healing of the villous lining may take two years or more. Dairy intolerance can be due to either the lactose (sugar component) or the casein (protein) in dairy. Intolerance...
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