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Thank you!

As I stated initially, when I was finally diagnosed, gluten free foods were not readily available. I had to drive 50 miles round trip for a loaf of bread that couldn't even be sliced because of cross contamination. Some of the food was as tasteless as eating the box. Items like pretzels were more than 100% more costly, when I could find them. Others had...

At this point, it's been 14 years, with testing on an annual basis. I'm pushing 83 so as long as that miserable rash doesn't recur (never did have any obvious gut issues), I'm good. Just thought it was really strange to go from one end of the spectrum to the other with the blood numbers.

It was coincidentally diagnosed during the colonoscopy because of the rash that covered my butt and the fact that I was severely anemic. The GI ordered the appropriate blood test for the diagnosis and also did the endoscopy. The question still remains, how can my IgA number have been so high and now are low normal with me resuming eating gluten.

Took me 10 years of intense HD and mis-diagnosis of the rash before finally getting a diagnosis when I got a colonoscopy. Went gluten free for 3 years but that was before gluten-free food was readily available and gradually eased back into food that had gluten, with no rash or adverse results for probably 15 years. Have had any number of IgA tests during...