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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:39 pm Post subject: Re: Celiac Blood tests & more diagnostic info |
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| aklap wrote: | Doctors will usually start with a set of blood tests called a Celiac Panel that should consist of the tests below. If the panel does not include all tests, you may not get the entire picture.
Please request your doctor to run ALL of these tests. Not all Doctors will know about Celiac Disease (CD) and may be unfamiliar with proper testing. This is where educating yourself becomes important.
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There are so many reports medical papers and counter claims into the nature of celiac disease that it becomes difficult for doctors and patients alike to assess the ‘likelihood’ that you are celiac.
A friend of mine was diagnosed several years ago and believes it was brought on by highly toxic medications that she took for another condition. Sometimes a physical or mental trauma is thought to lower your immunity enough to evoke celiac. (a whole other story).
Anyway after considerable tiredness and many Medical practitioner visits she got a referral to an alternative medicine person who diagnosed her through this process:
Testing the absorption of vitamins and standard nutrients in the blood after taking vitamin tablets and eating a healthy diet suggested that there was a profound nutrient deficiency.
They got her to do a stool test which turned up positive for gluten antibodies.
Several months later, the more rigorous blood test genes test for DQ2, DQ8 genes suggested that she was not celiac.
By this stage she had stopped eating gluten, so could not take a biopsy. Even with the blood test suggesting she was not celiac, she found that she ‘recovered’ to normal functioning mostly within a few weeks.
The symptoms suggested that she was far more than gluten intolerant, but unless she goes back on a gluten diet and risks all of the profound side effects, a biopsy will not be able to prove things one way or another.
The most amazing thing about medical science at this point is that it describes celiac disease as a grab bag of symptoms that can be very different for different people, and that their blood testing is never 100%, you always need a visual inspection of the bowel – which could of course be damaged by other diseases.
This is an elusive disease, costly to diagnose, costly to be gluten free.
I hope your path to diagnosis is smoother and more certain in its results – but at least feeling better has made the difference in going gluten free …
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