Kaylee G

Just found out recently that I’ve been officially diagnosed with celiac disease. I’ve been eating gluten free for a few weeks with about 50% effort, but now that I’m taking things more seriously I’ve realized that it is HARD. I come from a fast food family and am moving off for college in about 6 months, so I’m pretty crunched for time when it comes ...

I would double-check with your office, because that doesn’t sound correct. There’s a small chance they’re attempting to measure improvements after you begin a gluten free diet, but I’d say this is most likely a miscommunication error.

Thanks so much for the advice and support! I’ll make sure to go ahead and do some research on IBD and Crohn’s now. I cannot express how great it feels to have my emotions validated.

Hey Trents, thanks for your help!! Does this mean I may gain clarity from a gluten challenge and retesting serology or some other marker? If so, I’ll definitely bring this up with my GP as an option (if he’s not already certain in one direction or the other).

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had serology testing, an endoscopy, and an immunohistochemical stain study done, and each test has been just barely above the normal threshold and largely inconclusive. My blood EMA’s were negative, with a TTG of 5 (normal 0-3, but my local lab “runs low” with results). My endoscopy and histopathology was summarized with “The du...