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Enterolab Results Help And Symptoms


anemonegirl

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anemonegirl Newbie

After reading this board for about a month, I thought I'd be able to understand my Enterolab results when they came in. Now I'm not so sure. I *think* my results mean that I'm sensitive to gluten but I don't have celiac's disease (otherwise the Antitissue Transglutaminase IgA would be high, right?). I do not have malabsorbtion either.

Here are the results:

"Fecal Antigliadin IgA 14 (Normal Range <10 Units)

Fecal Antitissue Transglutaminase IgA 8 Units (Normal Range <10 Units)

Quantitative Microscopic Fecal Fat Score 44 Units (Normal Range <300 Units)"

I don't understand the basic difference between the Antigliadin IgA and the Antitissue Transglutaminase IgA. And how can one be high and one be normal and I still feel so bad when I eat gluten? Does this mean that I just maybe have an allergy?

I was gluten free for 3 weeks and then I went on sort of a bender with pizza and cupcakes last saturday and I am still in pain. I do not get the extreme stomach cramping or D, I get what feels like the flu. My whole body feels excruciatingly tender, my glands get swollen and my joints ache. I swell up like a balloon too. Everything hurts. Anyone get this way? Or am I just lucky ;-)

Thanks in advance for your help. I am feeling like I am making a big deal out of nothing because of the less than dramatic numbers I received from Enterolab. Doubting myself. But, really, the way I feel when I eat gluten should be enough to convince me there's something going on.

Thanks-

Anemonegirl


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AndreaB Contributor

Basically from what I understand you have gluten intolerance (or if you had gene testing done and have a celiac gene it could be the beginnings of celiac). I also scored 14. You caught this before you had an autoimmune response and before malabsorption started.

That's good.

With your dietary results I can only say that it would have gotten far worse had you continued eating gluten. No matter what we call it, it is still gluten free for life.

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