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Hi, i'm new to this website and not sure how to navigate I hope someone reads my post and responds. 

I went to the doctor for a regular std check up and birth control. I tested for syphilis and the test came back positive.i frequed out i been with the same partner years. A week later the doctor called me to inform me that i had false poaitive and dont have syphilia. However, autoimmune diseases can cause afalse positive on a syphilis test. They had me do more blood test to check for autoimuno disease. Yhey did not find anything

I did my own rrsearch on autoimune diseases and found out about celiac

I have all the symptoms bloadj g of stomach and chronic diaherra specially wjen eating pasta never paid attention and just kind of dealt with having diahrea at least 4 ti.es a week i havent told my docor about my suspicion  im freeking out the more i read it saya you can die from it and there ia no treatment but dieting please guys help should i get tested im scared

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8 hours ago, Elizamm said:

Hi, i'm new to this website and not sure how to navigate I hope someone reads my post and responds. 

I went to the doctor for a regular std check up and birth control. I tested for syphilis and the test came back positive.i frequed out i been with the same partner years. A week later the doctor called me to inform me that i had false poaitive and dont have syphilia. However, autoimmune diseases can cause afalse positive on a syphilis test. They had me do more blood test to check for autoimuno disease. Yhey did not find anything

I did my own rrsearch on autoimune diseases and found out about celiac

I have all the symptoms bloadj g of stomach and chronic diaherra specially wjen eating pasta never paid attention and just kind of dealt with having diahrea at least 4 ti.es a week i havent told my docor about my suspicion  im freeking out the more i read it saya you can die from it and there ia no treatment but dieting please guys help should i get tested im scared

I

There are simple blood tests for Celiac.  If you have Celiac and do not treat it, there are lots of complications.  The treatment is eating gluten free....not surgery, drugs, etc.  so that's a good thing.  Once you treat the Celiac by eating gluten-free, the chances of all those bad complications go down to almost nothing.

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