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- trents replied to beyondbabs23's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms7
Confused is an understatement
Yes, by all means, get another doc. Believe me, the ignorance about celiac disease in the medical community sometimes amazes me! Some of them treat it as if it were the latest "fad" diagnosis. It is getting better but there are a lot older docs, even GI specialists out there, who are operating on very outdated notions concerning celiac disease. -
- beyondbabs23 replied to beyondbabs23's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms7
Confused is an understatement
@Wheatwacked I am a little frustrated with my doctor and the way things have went. I also have been suffering with severe acid reflux and nausea since my EGD, called the office to let them know and haven’t even gotten a call back for that, let alone anything else. When I return home after this job assignment, I will look for a better Gastro to build a... -
- Wheatwacked replied to beyondbabs23's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms7
Confused is an understatement
It is not your ignorance but your doctors ignorance that is concerning, That’s why the moral of the story at this time is to evaluate how you feel when you eat 100% gluten-free for a couple of months. Until we have highly sensitive tests we can rely on to accurately diagnose gluten sensitivity, diagnosing will involve “building a case” by pulling toget... -
- beyondbabs23 replied to beyondbabs23's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms7
Confused is an understatement
@trents Thankfully I haven’t given up Gluten yet fully due to just having my biopsy and have been savoring it until I’m told to let it go, lol. Yeah very much so it seems the symptoms overlap, as you said from what I’ve been reading. I was having sigmoid pain and strange bowel movement issues. but the doctor told me all Celiacs have upper stoma... -
- trents replied to beyondbabs23's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms7
Confused is an understatement
Keep in mind that if you decide to get any repeat testing done for celiac disease, whether it be blood antibody testing or endoscopy/biopsy, those tests are invalid if you are already on a gluten free diet. If you start a gluten free diet at some point as an experiment, you would need to go back to eating generous amounts of gluten (the amount in approximately...
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