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- Jula replied to Jula's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease2
Preliminary diagnoses via blood test in 2009; Is biopsy confirmation worth the contamination required?
Thanks, trents, for both the welcome and the perspective. That is exactly how I'm feeling at this point. The main reason I was considering this particular confirmation is because 2 primary care physicians, one an internist, had said this should be done because they could not be sure based on the information I have that it is celiac and not gluten intolerance... -
- Kathleen JJ replied to Kathleen JJ's topic in Traveling with Celiac Disease2
Ski trip with Celiac son - preparation advice please
Thank you very much for the reply! As to the cheese sauce - I am not the cook at home, I'm very lucky that my husband takes on this monumental task. But how does one make a gluten-free cheese sauce? Isn't it always based on a mixture of flower and butter? I never achieved actually making it without burning it myself, but he makes it this way. Is it a question... -
- trents replied to Jula's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease2
Preliminary diagnoses via blood test in 2009; Is biopsy confirmation worth the contamination required?
Jula, welcome to the forum. What possible benefit would having an official diagnosis give you at this point in your life? You already have medical test evidence that you are a celiac (antibody tests and genetic testing) and the symptom improvement when you went off gluten confirms what the testing already pointed to. Why on earth would you risk damaging... -
- Jula posted a topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease2
Preliminary diagnoses via blood test in 2009; Is biopsy confirmation worth the contamination required?
I will admit that when I was told I would have to eat gluten before getting the biopsy that would definitively diagnose Celiac for me, I was kind of psyched when I thought of all the things I would eat and enjoy since going gluten free in 2009. I was diagnosed that year after the results of tissue transglutaminase testing combined with persistent anemia...
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