cari83

I posted in January about a test I had had, supposedly for celiac disease, while living abroad. Someone said it wasn't the test for celiac. Then tonight I was looking on a lab tests site (where you can order them yourself) and one says "Gluten Blood Test" and it says "Diagnoses celiac disease." I looked at it and its sample report and realized that's the...

Thank you again for your advice, cyclinglady. I don't blame your husband for not wanting to try a gluten challenge, if being gluten free helps him. I'm going to try gluten free again and see if it helps at all.

Thank you for your response, cyclinglady. My stomach pain (under my left rib) started before the head injury, and was hurting off-and-on for a couple of years, so I decided to try a gluten-free diet since doctors all had different answers about what it was. The pain didn't happen during that gluten-free month. I was diagnosed with GERD as a teenager...

Okay, well...it will probably be impossible getting the correct tests run in the country where I'm living. I live abroad. If the doctor doesn't even know the right tests to run, there doesn't seem much hope of getting a correct diagnosis. I am aware that the head injury is most-likely the cause. It's just that the doctors here do not know what they're doing...

Hello, I developed scary neurological symptoms (tremor, muscle jerks) nearly a year ago only a day or two after a head injury. It's very upsetting. Around the same time (6 or 7 days before symptoms started) I also went back on gluten after a month off gluten. I asked my doctor to do the blood test for gluten sensitivity and I'll include the image of...