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Decreasing tTiga?
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Decreasing tTiga?
plumbago replied to ErinV's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Hello and welcome, Could you please publish the reference ranges for each test, including tTG-IgA and the endomysial antibodies? When your daughter had her endoscopy, was she eating gluten? I agree with your position, I would not want to subject her to another endoscopy and biopsy. It sounds like your doctor is saying that since her tiredness is... -
Hello @VioletM Has your boyfriend circled back to his doctor to work with him or her on managing the levels of valproic acid / Depakote (as we call it in the US)? This is a medication that has hand tremor as a side effect, in addition to other effects, including neurological, and it requires regular blood level monitoring to make sure he is in the therapeutic...
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Abscesses on legs
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Abscesses on legs
plumbago replied to LookingForAnswers101's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
@LookingForAnswers101 If you can tell by now, has cutting out gluten helped? -
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Abscesses on legs
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Abscesses on legs
plumbago replied to LookingForAnswers101's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Ok, thanks. I'm so glad to hear you are in the hands of a dermatologist. I hope he/she has given you 1) a diagnosis; and 2) a plan of care with a couple of options so that you have buy-in and comfort with it. I have some ideas, but not having seen the abscesses or you in person, it doesn't really make sense for me to kind of ... speculate further. But your... -
Abscesses on legs
plumbago replied to LookingForAnswers101's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Hi there, Can you describe them a little more? Do they ooze? Do they itch? Do they spread like a rash or appear like a "boil?" Has a doctor / dermatologist looked at them? Are they big? Do they seem like they could get infected if not careful? Do they disappear? (You say you get them "2/3" months, assuming you meant "2 to 3" - so have the ones that came... -
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Anyone else with very high HDL?
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A relative has opened another door for me on this issue -- the possibility of menopause raising HDL. Most studies suggest that menopause decreases HDL-C, however, one study found that often it's increased. "Surprisingly, HDL cholesterol was higher (p < 0.001) in postmenopausal women by 11%. Further, the number of women who had low HDL cholesterol...
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Increasing symptoms after going gluten free
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I have taken thiamine on and off (just not at this exact moment), and I’m not sure it's made any difference. Yes, I almost always “fast” (12 hours NPO) for blood tests, as do a great many other Americans, so I tend to think that’s not it. All I can say is that the mystery continues. I could do some speculating here…well, heck, let me go ahead and specu...
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The last time my vitamin D was very low, according to a lab test, was before I was diagnosed with celiac disease. I've been supplementing ever since, and now the numbers on the lab tests are within their normal ranges, oftentimes way above. I've also been supplementing with methylcobalamin (B12) since I was low before diagnosis in 2010, and now I'm fine....
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Yes, well, that's what we have been told, probably ever since the different types of cholesterol were identified. It's what most of our primary care providers are still telling us, it's what the commercials tell us. But researchers (up until now at any rate) have been learning a great deal about HDL. Nevertheless, the universe of what we still don't know...
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Since some time between 2010 and 2014, my HDL-C has been going up and you might even say elevated. The last time I could find in my records that my HDL was normal was in 2014 when it was 67. Last week, it was 101, and it’s been 88 and above since about 2015. A significant life event happened in 2010 when I was diagnosed with Celiac disease and in May of t...
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Symptoms and trying to figure this out
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How to diagnose NCGS / false positive Celiac / extreme fatigue, night terrors
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Standardizing Celiac Disease Diagnostics
plumbago commented on Jefferson Adams's article in Diagnosis, Testing & Treatment
I was rather surprised to go back and look at my blood test results because none of them included a total IgA. But then, looking at the lab results from my original celiac disease diagnosis over 10 years ago, I see the reason for that. Part of the standard verbiage in that report says: "Between 2-3% of Celiac patients have selective IgA deficiency. If the... -
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Gluten Free Bread
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Gluten Free Bread
plumbago replied to Camorrison56's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
Boar's Head is good when I occasionally buy it. But right now - Sept 2024 - I would be extra careful since they found listeria in their meat plants. Check to see if the packages in your area are affected. -
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There were a lot of things left out, necessarily, of a one hour discussion. I bet he'd have addressed it had one of their participants asked. It was still a worthwhile discussion. Plumbago
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How to diagnose NCGS / false positive Celiac / extreme fatigue, night terrors
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What I really liked about this video - and thank you so much for posting it - is that he/they talked about what happens to someone vis a vis their celiac disease who is on a gluten-free diet, also active vs inactive celiac disease, and potential celiac disease. These are things that I've been very much wanting to discuss forever. I have many other questions...
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That is the goal of a gluten-free diet, @SunshineFace. But there is another possibility that you did not list, which is that no damage has occurred yet, and it may be a matter of time. However, if in your scenario, the EGD you reference occurred in someone previously diagnosed with celiac disease who had been eating gluten-free for some time, then...