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    I agree. Unless your use of definite gluten-containing products is excessive, I tend not to assign much blame to cosmetic products. What makes you think you are continuing to have exposures? Have you been eating out much? How do you respond to milk products?
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    The second of your tests, (TTG IgA) is not 100% specific: there are other causes of a positive test, including diabetes, heart failure, Crohn’s and others. (Also, people who have celiac disease can get a negative result with this test.) This test is machine-read. (Background: The enzyme TTG deamidates gliadin (a broken-down component of gluten). In reaction t...
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    Exactly.
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    Olmesartan is not an ACE inhibitor. It's an ARB (angiotension receptor blocker).
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    In January 2018, there was a discussion on this site of the ARB class of medications and villi blunting. Lisinopril is an ACE inhibitor, not an ARB. I haven't heard about a linkage between lisinopril and Celiac or between lisinopril and villi blunting, but that doesn't mean much! Here's something I cited in Jan. 2018: Small Bowel Histopathologic...
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    I've had gluten-free bread before that I just know was meant to taste like rye. I did not like it though. I think the main herb they used was either anise or something like anise. They went overboard. I was diagnosed as an adult and well remember the deliciousness of rye bread.
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    Hi, it may help others if they know what type diabetes you have. Plumbago
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    @docaz Just to be clear, the part you quoted from me says damage done likely as a result of villi blunting. This was the doc said to me at the endoscopy center right after my EGD (ie, before biopsy results): "Good chance of having Celiac. Lining looks a little atrophic. Will have to wait until bx comes back." The report's finding (under "Findings") has: ...
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    FWIW, my GI met with me minutes after my 'scope and said he could tell there was damage, which was likely a result of villi blunting.
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    "Did you see anything on endoscopy that could explain my symptoms?" "How did my esophagus look?" Also there's something called the Marsh scale which you may want to familiarize yourself with to see if where the results fall on that scale (if they do). Generally I would surmise that because it's a phone appt that does mean your results are likely...
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    Thanks for posting the pics. Is that your finger in the second photo? I sometimes have atopic dermatitis (aka eczema) and it occasionally has those things that look like blistery vesicules, like that. I think biopsy is the only way to know for sure that it is DH. My biopsy was negative for DH. As for your scalp, also thanks for posting that photo and...
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    Hopefully you have more choices than that. DH (if it was DH, which it sounds like it probably was) and the folliculitis may not be related. Or, you could be right, and it just takes more time. Check back in with the doctor. Let her/him know exactly which medications you are on, some can induce folliculitis. Let the doc know if it runs in your family...
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    Ok, good luck, and please SD and wear a mask! I still don't have a good sense of the total time on and off gluten your son has experienced. Not that having that info will be determinative, as I've said, but I can possibly offer an education guess. This is a very common question on this site. The standard advice (granted, advice given to adults...
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    My question would be for how long your son has been back on gluten? But even knowing the answer to that question, it may still be difficult for us to know or say whether (resumption of) villi damage would occur in time to be detected upon re-scoping. I'm so sorry you're going through this, gosh, I can't imagine the anguish. These are tough questions...
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    You have deleted your posting with the video (I think you have - at least I can't find it any longer) so my comment doesn't really make sense without it, in terms of flow, ease of reading and sense. Was my comment ad hominen? It's a close call, I can see why you thought so. However, calling someone immature thereby seeking to invalidate their argument...
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    Vitamin complexity is a boon to those wanting a presence on the Internet. It is an endless giving well. Throw in a little criminally preventable and horrible national diet and there you have a fairly captive audience. Your opinion may vary, I realize. But I believe I am allowed to push back on the linked video’s web site, which I intend to do. I s...
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    @Ferguston What is your Vitamin D level? What are the levels of your B vitamins? It would be good to know before you start experimenting, but be careful going to enclosed offices, obviously. In one of your posts you said you are overweight. Refeeding syndrome is even rarer than SIBO, even among celiacs, and I imagine among the overweight, rarer...
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    I am still trying to figure out my post-breakfast fatigue, which usually coincides with eating toast, butter and jam. (When I'm not eating over 8 g of added sugar, I still may be eating toast and butter but not the jam.) It just happened after eating Udi's Millet Chia bread. It has only 3g of sugar of which 2 g are added. 300 mg of sodium. Ingredients are...
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    @Ferguston .....unless by "the rare cases that you should avoid them is when they damage you, but those are a small number of people only." you meant carbohydrates as a general category of nutrients and not processed carbohydrates. If so, my humble apologies. I often race to post things without stopping long enough to consider context.
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    You got it! 100% agree. I could not disagree more! We are learning, every day, how ultra processed food damages us. Look at what Covid is doing to our inflamed bodies. Ultra processed foods are among the most addictive things on earth, right up there with heroin and nicotine. Sounds like hyperbole, but it's truly not. I'm saying to do a bit...
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    Hi, I have had similar heart symptoms and documented it here and also here in case you’re interested in reading about the cardiac symptoms I have had recently. Long and short of it is, I have these SVTs that really disturb me, but for now cardiologists say are “benign.” I won’t repeat what I’ve said in those posts, except in my cas...
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    Have you checked to see if you have a hiatal hernia? Two days ago, I related in a long post here the saga of my "heart palpitations" which actually is in my case supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). I go on and on about it, but basically I think I'm concluding it happens after I eat and especially after I eat processed carbohydrates too quickly...
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    Thanks - yes, I already do most of this as well (time-restricted eating and checking blood glucose), pretty religiously in fact. When I fast for >1 day, I go into ketosis very very easily, it's weird. My fasting insulin is pretty good.
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    I'm providing this update mostly to those other readers who may have SVTs like me. For the last three weeks, I have given up caffeine and added sugar, and I have added mag citrate. Here’s what I think may be a big contributing factor to SVT. I notice that the SVTs happen after I eat, usually breakfast. Today, I ate my usual veggie-heavy breakfast, ...
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    I'm NOT an alcoholic.
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