Matt8949
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Matt8949 replied to Matt8949's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
Thank you both, that makes sense. I will treat myself over the week and will limit it so that I can give myself the best chance of a conclusive result but not overboard. -
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Matt8949 replied to Matt8949's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
I have avoided gluten since last Monday so a week and a half, another 10 days until my endoscopy so it would be around three weeks if I continue to avoid. -
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Matt8949 replied to Matt8949's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
From what I have read the endoscopy will give the clinicians a good level of understanding around the damage if there is any, this will need to heal and there would be a healing process over time where the body would naturally repair as it would a wound, but of course depends on the extent of the damage. You can only work with what you know, so many things... -
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Matt8949 replied to Matt8949's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
I was diagnosed via two blood tests, I have an endoscopy in about 10 days which I am assuming will confirm (or tell me that the Dr gave a misdiagnosis which I hope but is very unlikely). Thank you all for your answers, I have immediately adopted a gluten free diet, and am very cautious. Hopefully it’s something that I developed recently and the d... -
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Good evening, I’ve just been diagnosed with celiac last week at 35 years of age. Quite surprised I have not known before but it makes sense looking back at symptoms. I generally don’t eat pasta/pizza but it’s the enjoyable bits like beer/cake/biscuits that’s hard to manage. I’m seeing a lot of ‘may contain’ and ‘made in a factory where wheat and glute...