Holycow
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Ozempic slows down gastric emptying. Your issue may not be with gluten at all but something calling dumping syndrome.
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Marsh 1 and a negative blood test is not active celiac disease at this time. This is called potential or latent celiac disease. Most of the time, potential or latent celiac disease does not develop into celiac disease, ever, even with genetic markers for celiac. A complete celiac panel and genetic screening will not change the fact, that right now, you...
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Ttg iga 67.7 range 0<20
Holycow replied to Dawn s D's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Many things can cause of a falsely elevated TTG IGA including other autoimmune disease and infection. Celiac blood tests are good but not perfect, so the assesment of no active celiac at this time is probably accurate. -
Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Type 1 diabetes share genetic roots with celiac. So while you may be the first celiac patient, look for the other two to see the potential source for celiac.
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Nope, you don't have to go on a gluten free diet. It is a choice everyday what you put into your body. But there caveats to that -- if you continue to eat gluten, you don't know how good you could feel. Eating gluten will eventually lead to malnutrition, osteoporosis, likely gut cancers, other autoimmune diseases, and probably an early death due to your...
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I was prescribed xifaxin for SIBO and it wasn't covered by insurance. I got it by asking for samples from my MD. Call your MD and explain you cannot afford it and ask for samples. Normally, they have enough to give you the required course of antibiotics.