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  1. trents
    I would think that what you are experiencing is not abnormal at all. Even people without celiac disease commonly experience what you describe after being on antibiotics. For a long time, medical scientists have suspected that overuse of antibiotics, particularly early in life, can be a contributing factor to celiac disease because they kill off certain...
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    Sorry, the B-complex at Costco is not Kirkland but Nature Made. I told you wrong.
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    Costco carries a lot of gluten-free products, not only vitamins and supplements but food items as well. And they are clearly marked most of the time. Costco has good quality control.
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    Kirkland (Costco store brand) multivitamin. gluten-free. Also, I would suggest taking a B Complex. Again, Kirkland has a gluten free B complex.
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    SIBO?
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    Yes, not much to conclude until you get the biopsy report.
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    Candida is a yeast and so thrives on carbs. Have you tried an ultra low carb diet such as the keto diet?
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    Welcome to the forum, Walter. You have several things going on there that need attention. The swollen glands in the cheeks is a new one I haven't heard of before. The numbness could be due to Celiac disease as neurological problems are common with celiac disease. Hashimoto's is a thyroid disease and likely causing the low levels of thyroid...
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    Many celiacs do not have significant GI distress before diagnosis. I was one of them. Absence of significant GI distress does not mean there is no damage occurring to the small bowel villi and also causing other health issues that may take some time to surface. We call this "silent celiac disease."
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    I wasn't diagnosed until my early 50s and have found healing. Certainly you can. There are still many things you can eat and the best part is you will find yourself switching over to eating more fresh foods and less processed foods, thus healthier eating. It will put a severe limit on eating out in restaurants and at other people's houses unless they are...
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    A delicious alternative IMO to oatmeal is buckwheat. It is also packed with nutrition. Takes about 10 minutes to cook. It is not related to wheat or any other cereal grain. It is actually the seeds of a plant related to rhubarb.
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    Look for the logo "Certified Gluten Free" when you have a choice. "Certified" would have been tested for sure. I see a lot of stuff on Amazon that is labeled "Naturally Gluten Free" and I'm suspicious of it as that would not seem to preclude cross contamination. I purchase a lot of "gluten free" products from Bob's Red Mill and even though not "Certified...
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    I think La Choy brand soy sauce is wheat free.
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    An endoscopy and biopsy will not yield valid results if you have been eating gluten-free for any length of time before it is done.
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    Did you mention to your physician that you had been making an effort to eat gluten-free for a week, two weeks before the test but that you had returned to eating gluten a week before the test? Not sure that brief hiatus from gluten would totally invalidate the test but it might have some mitigating effect on the actual scores. I would bring that up with the...
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    Yes, many of us suffer from migraines.
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    Aye! Discretion is the better part of valor. But your experience, Scott, makes me inclined to ask questions up front when I go to restaurants having gluten-free menu sections an/or to request the "gluten-free" food be cooked in clean and separate pots and pans.
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    I don't think there is anything that will eliminate migraines completely on this side of the grave.
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    There is also at least one at home test kit available: https://www.imaware.health/at-home-blood-test/celiac-disease-screening
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    Sounds like a good, tactful approach.
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    It's called tact. When it comes right down to it, the physician is the one who has the authority to say yea or nay when it comes to ordering tests. It also recognizes the fact that many or most people uncomfortable with giving the appearance of upstaging a professional and the question I suggested may provide a way of making it easier to start the conversation...
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    The TTG is the most sensitive antibody test for Celiac Disease.
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    You are absolutely correct. The testing done was much less than complete. The most important antibody test (tTG) for Celiac was omitted as were some others. Was this a primary care doc or a GI doc? You might go back to him/her and say something like, "I'm just not feeling good and there is significant history of Celiac Disease in my family. Are there other...
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    That's a bummer revelation, Scott. But unfortunately it's probably a normal occurrence in the eatery industry as there is such incomplete understanding about how little gluten it can take to initiate a reaction.
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    Essentially all meds that address autoimmune diseases will be immunosuppressants. There's just no other way to do it at this time.
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