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  1. plumbago
    Good for you to look for people with similar experiences - give it some time. People may chime in here.
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    Hi, This sounds awful and I'm so sorry you are going through this! What I can say just reading through your comment is: I'm surprised they didn't tell you ahead of your endoscopy to keep eating gluten, that they could not do the test unless they were. (Well, that's what they should have said!). A positive FIT test means there is blood in your stool - commonly...
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    It’s important to keep eating gluten before the endoscopy in order to get an accurate reading. At least this is the understanding currently. The endoscopy will give you a good baseline reading, against which to judge healing later on. Others may know more, but from what I've heard, one piece of gluten-containing bread or toast a day should be enough. There m...
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    Contrast agent, medication, or bile?
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    Welcome Liz. To me, it sounds a bit of a stretch to link hypertension with gluten, but use any advice you receive here just as food for thought. Looking in my book, Recognizing Celiac Disease, there is some mention of mineral deficiencies like magnesium and potassium, associated with elevated blood pressure, but again to me that seems unlikely - there is...
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    Yes, as mentioned, the test looked for antibodies to spike (ie, what the vaccination produces antibodies for), so it was just looking at that, and none of the other proteins. Thanks!
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    I have to wear a mask at work, but I do it other places as well (it's required indoors where I live, which is smart). As for getting infected (you said "re"infected), I tend not to think so because I am tested frequently. I will likely test the antibodies again, and if they're still high, I will think with greater certainty that it's the vaccine. But it just...
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    Thanks, RMJ, yes, you'd think so! But it's so many months afterwards, and if, as is commonly being said these days, antibodies wane, I have to ask myself almost in disbelief what my antibodies were 3,4,5 months ago, if, nearly 8 months later, they are on the super high end?! It's a bit concerning to me. Again, it could have been an exposure, though I am very...
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    Sorry. When I said "spike" I meant antibodies to the spike protein.
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    Hello, I received the last of my two-dose Moderna vaccine in January, and recently had my antibodies (to spike) tested, and they were very very high. I test a lot (antigen and occasional PCR) and have never tested positive. I'm curious to hear from others who may also have gone out and gotten an antibody test. What were your results? I'm posting this...
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    I hope other frequent commenters can chime in about diet and food, but right off the bat, what caught my attention is the exercise. Of course, I'm just speculating here, but I've read of more than few cases of the effects of overexercise especially during the pandemic, and worked with a patient who had elevated CPK (rhabdo) due to other causes. Don't know...
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    Thank you very much @SW_Virginia_USA, those sound like excellent suggestions. Much appreciated.
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    Anyone know of good gluten-free outdoor dining options inside the city limits of Knoxville (or just outside)? Thanks!
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    Celiac is not a condition for which people take immune-suppressing medications. This borders on misinformation, and though I approved your comment, I truly hesitated, as a moderator. (Not that I represent this cite in any official way, I should add.) Further, even people who are taking immunosuppressants should get the vaccine and have been recommended...
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    So the stuff you buy in gas stations is K2 and is extremely dangerous. It is not even remotely comparable to medical marijuana, I should think.
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    I think alkaline water is most effective at producing more expensive urine.
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    A month is way too long for those tests to result. They should be back in days. There might have been a processing error or the blood might not have been sent. Who knows. Get another panel done, would be my advice.
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    Not to get too gross, but there are enzymes in stool that are irritating and perhaps causing itching. A good remedy is a bidet or bidet-type hose. That will do the trick for sure.
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    Are you homozygous C282Y? In any case, a complicated picture - good luck sorting it out. It may take some time, as you no doubt already know. If you have celiac, consider joining the forum and posting your questions as a member. Best wishes.
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    I love to watch old movies, and what I've noticed in my years and years of looking at them and going through old magazines and photographs is that in the 1950s, people in general were a bit plumper than they were in the 1940s and 1930s. In the 1960s, people, especially women, were much thinner than they were in the 1950s (or just...thinner). The trend kind...
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    What is the "extra harm?"
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    Same. No. Well, for me, the answer is no. I've been gluten free for 10 plus years. The main issue is that I actually do have half moons, but most of the time they can't be seen as they're covered by my encroaching cuticles. (Looking now at my left middle finger, I see the top of a half moon and on my left ring finger.) I work with...
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    Her ttg-igg test was positive, weakly positive, but positive.
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    what were the letters before ttg? And what is the reference range?
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    That's weird, right? Based on everything you've posted and answered, that would not be a positive Celiac case. Are we missing something? I would insist on some clarification. Me in your shoes, I'd fax a letter to the practitioner, along with a copy of the tests, asking for the reason behind the positive diagnosis, and clarification. Next steps depend...
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