Guest guest Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Hi everyone. I have been reading every posting on this site for 3 weeks before I got up the guts to write. I live in rural Northwest Wisconsin and I have been told by my GI doc that I have " probable celiac's disease " his recommendation was " just go on a gluten free diet " . Just go on a gluten fee diet? Like thats just as easy as giving up chocolate for lent. Anyway after 1 month of backing off on it and going through binges I finally did it. Three weeks GF now. At least I am to the best of my knowledge. Still a little shaky on the hidden ingredients. It is not fun. I feel cheated and angry. I keep thinking. Probable celiacs. So how about making it official. There were no follow up appointments I was just told to go home and be GF. Heres the question? If enterolab testing can make this more definitive than How come doctors are not using this testing. OR maybe they are and My doc is just useless. What's the consensus. I Had a colonoscopy and Upper GI endoscopy. Everything was normal. I only showed inflammation in the small intestine. No flattened villi if I recall. Chrones and other bowel diseases ruled out. He took a bunch of blood tests don't know what they were but they were all negative. Two years ago I was on the ATkins diet and was symptom free. The dx was based on this and the inflammation. Couldnt the inflammation be caused by something else? I had previous diagnosis of IBS and GERD. The diet had eliminated my symptoms until 2 days ago. Now I have diarrhea again. Could be a bug. But cant tell the difference. I am sooo confused. One more question is anyone else out there in Northwest Wisconsin?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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