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From: tazzastazzas on 10 Aug 2005 14:01
Some questions about three different form of celiac disease indicate in
the title: -through the blood antibodies (Anti-Endomysial,
transglutaminase antibodies, antigliadin andibodies)exams what of the
three types of celiac disease is possibile to diagnose? Some of the
three types of celiac disease could not be noticed with blood
antibodies exams? -What type of exam in all three case is able to
notice the presence of celiac disease? Is it intestinal biopsy? Thanks.

From: j.a.a on 20 Aug 2005 21:30
I am one of those "silent" types but what we have found is I am
immuno-compromised. My thinking is my immune system was not
functioning correctly from an early age & as I got older it just got
worse & worse due to constant inflammation from eating gluten daily &
the malnutrition from the malabsorption due to the constant sprue I
had. I found out I had gluten enteropathy at the age of 40 btw. I
could not figure out what was giving me the diarrhea because it seemed
to be coming from everything I was eating back then.

Recently we made a few errors. I am allergic to practically everything
(dust, mold, pollen, trees, grass, etc, etc, but surprisingly not to
dogs & cats, aren't I lucky) & my GI prescribed fluticasone inhaler
(called Flonase here in the U.S.). Big mistake. We did not know at the
time how compromised my immune system was. I did a gluten challenge
last December for about 10 days to see if we could detect antibodies
to gluten in my blood. The test came back negative & all the 10 days
of gluten did to me was give me sprue that I could not get under
control until about last month.

However the big mistake was the fluticasone propionate inhaler & me
using it 2x a day as instructed by my GI for my massive sinus
allergies. You see fluticasone is a steroid & does decrease the immune
system response in the sinuses; however one side effect is candida
albicans infections of the sinuses, throat & mouth ("oral thrush",
leukoplakia, etc). Well I got a whopper of a case of candidiasis:
sinuses, mouth, throat, intestines, I think it was slowly becoming
systemic from what I felt.

Well during this time I ran in to gluten in a few over the counter
medications that use gluten as a binder in some way & promptly got
sick as a dog from them. However my immune system did practically
nothing while the candidiasis tried to become systemic on me. I told
my doctor my immune system is retarded. I ended up on two treatments
of fluconazole in order to get read of the candidiasis. One doctor
prescribed 200mg, 2 tablets, 1 tablet to be taken 1 week apart. Well
that worked a bit, but the candida just came roaring back on me.
Apparently it was living well inside my sinuses & liked it there.
Another doctor prescribed 100mg, 1 tablet a day for 7 days. That did
the trick. No more candidiasis.

Interesting thing that I observed in me from this however: I am pretty
sure the candida infection hit me from the beginning of the
fluticasone usage, back in November last year. What I noticed was the
gluten set off malnutrition & sprue in me (I got sprue bad this time:
weight loss, shortness of breath, easy bleeding, pale skin color, etc)
& the candidiasis just took off because my immune system was weakened
at the time from the malnutrition (malabsorption caused malnutrition).
However it seemed that the more the candidiasis took off in me the
worse the sprue got in me. It became a horrible escalating out of
control downhill spiral: the more malnourished I became from sprue,
the more the yeast took over leading to more sprue.

However once I took the fluconazole the second time around for a week,
once the candidiasis went away the bathroom & digestive tract bounced
right back to normal. My skin color came back, no more easy bleeding,
no more shortness of breath, weakness, etc. Took some time to recover
from but I am bouncing back.

Anyway, in my case there are no antibodies to gluten in my blood.
However if I eat gluten my intestines melt down, my nervous system
falls apart, I practically fall in to a coma when I eat whole gluten
now from what we found out during the gluten challenge last December.

Oh yes I had all the biopsies done in 2002 but unfortunately it was
about 10 months after I'd figured out on my own that gluten was the
culprit that was making me sick for so many years, so not
unsurprisingly the tests came back negative. The nice thing was my
intestines had healed up 10 months after cutting the gluten out of my
diet. I wish the doctors here had taken me seriously back then & done
the tests sooner. It is a long story but they had concluded I was just
crazy because the lab works always showed just IgE antibodies were
elevated in me even while my intestines were melting down each day
from me eating gluten.

Also, my Irish grandmother died of colon cancer at age 59 & my
Scots-Irish father died at age 57, neither had ever been diagnosed
with celiac disease but I suspect they suffered with it all their
lives. Currently I suspect my brother is being affected by it but he
does not want to change his diet after seeing what I go through each
day just to be able to eat. My sister I believe is somewhat affected
by my father's genes however we are mixed-race & I think my mother's X
gene is helping her with it. But out of 6 children my parents had,
three of us are getting sicker as we get older (I nearly died by 2001)
& the other three who take after my mother have no symptoms of the
problems that plague us & are healthy.

Oh one last thing, GI doctor did the DNA testing & there is no
dominant gene for celiac disease in me. She thinks I have a recessive
gene form of the disease, probably inherited by dad's mom. It is also
real bad because my immune system is so wrecked & weak now that I am
giving off no antibodies to gluten to help them make the diagnosis :-(
such is life with this nasty disease :-(

Good luck to you


On 10 Aug 2005 11:01:50 -0700, "tazzastazzas" <tazzastazzas(a)libero.it>
wrote:

>Some questions about three different form of celiac disease indicate in
>the title: -through the blood antibodies (Anti-Endomysial,
>transglutaminase antibodies, antigliadin andibodies)exams what of the
>three types of celiac disease is possibile to diagnose? Some of the
>three types of celiac disease could not be noticed with blood
>antibodies exams? -What type of exam in all three case is able to
>notice the presence of celiac disease? Is it intestinal biopsy? Thanks.

From: Janice on 21 Aug 2005 00:01
You probably are prone to arthritus and body aches I'll bet. You will also
be prone to cancer and parasitic infections. This indicates a pH balance
problem. Try some sodium bicarbonate (1/8 teaspoon) each day at about 4 PM
(not before food) and if it works look into acidosis. Magnesium supplements
help to increase your body pH level and will solve most of your allergies.
This is a long term process that takes months, if not years, to correct.

See a Naturopathic Doctor and get some real help. MDs know nothing of this
and either do car mechanics.


"j.a.a" <no.spam.please(a)it.wastes.bandwidth.burp> wrote in message
news:fbjfg1l1u1r7t8g7kkhj56a35tdr178ofe(a)4ax.com...
> I am one of those "silent" types but what we have found is I am
> immuno-compromised. My thinking is my immune system was not
> functioning correctly from an early age & as I got older it just got
> worse & worse due to constant inflammation from eating gluten daily &
> the malnutrition from the malabsorption due to the constant sprue I
> had. I found out I had gluten enteropathy at the age of 40 btw. I
> could not figure out what was giving me the diarrhea because it seemed
> to be coming from everything I was eating back then.
>
> Recently we made a few errors. I am allergic to practically everything
> (dust, mold, pollen, trees, grass, etc, etc, but surprisingly not to
> dogs & cats, aren't I lucky) & my GI prescribed fluticasone inhaler
> (called Flonase here in the U.S.). Big mistake. We did not know at the
> time how compromised my immune system was. I did a gluten challenge
> last December for about 10 days to see if we could detect antibodies
> to gluten in my blood. The test came back negative & all the 10 days
> of gluten did to me was give me sprue that I could not get under
> control until about last month.
>
> However the big mistake was the fluticasone propionate inhaler & me
> using it 2x a day as instructed by my GI for my massive sinus
> allergies. You see fluticasone is a steroid & does decrease the immune
> system response in the sinuses; however one side effect is candida
> albicans infections of the sinuses, throat & mouth ("oral thrush",
> leukoplakia, etc). Well I got a whopper of a case of candidiasis:
> sinuses, mouth, throat, intestines, I think it was slowly becoming
> systemic from what I felt.
>
> Well during this time I ran in to gluten in a few over the counter
> medications that use gluten as a binder in some way & promptly got
> sick as a dog from them. However my immune system did practically
> nothing while the candidiasis tried to become systemic on me. I told
> my doctor my immune system is retarded. I ended up on two treatments
> of fluconazole in order to get read of the candidiasis. One doctor
> prescribed 200mg, 2 tablets, 1 tablet to be taken 1 week apart. Well
> that worked a bit, but the candida just came roaring back on me.
> Apparently it was living well inside my sinuses & liked it there.
> Another doctor prescribed 100mg, 1 tablet a day for 7 days. That did
> the trick. No more candidiasis.
>
> Interesting thing that I observed in me from this however: I am pretty
> sure the candida infection hit me from the beginning of the
> fluticasone usage, back in November last year. What I noticed was the
> gluten set off malnutrition & sprue in me (I got sprue bad this time:
> weight loss, shortness of breath, easy bleeding, pale skin color, etc)
> & the candidiasis just took off because my immune system was weakened
> at the time from the malnutrition (malabsorption caused malnutrition).
> However it seemed that the more the candidiasis took off in me the
> worse the sprue got in me. It became a horrible escalating out of
> control downhill spiral: the more malnourished I became from sprue,
> the more the yeast took over leading to more sprue.
>
> However once I took the fluconazole the second time around for a week,
> once the candidiasis went away the bathroom & digestive tract bounced
> right back to normal. My skin color came back, no more easy bleeding,
> no more shortness of breath, weakness, etc. Took some time to recover
> from but I am bouncing back.
>
> Anyway, in my case there are no antibodies to gluten in my blood.
> However if I eat gluten my intestines melt down, my nervous system
> falls apart, I practically fall in to a coma when I eat whole gluten
> now from what we found out during the gluten challenge last December.
>
> Oh yes I had all the biopsies done in 2002 but unfortunately it was
> about 10 months after I'd figured out on my own that gluten was the
> culprit that was making me sick for so many years, so not
> unsurprisingly the tests came back negative. The nice thing was my
> intestines had healed up 10 months after cutting the gluten out of my
> diet. I wish the doctors here had taken me seriously back then & done
> the tests sooner. It is a long story but they had concluded I was just
> crazy because the lab works always showed just IgE antibodies were
> elevated in me even while my intestines were melting down each day
> from me eating gluten.
>
> Also, my Irish grandmother died of colon cancer at age 59 & my
> Scots-Irish father died at age 57, neither had ever been diagnosed
> with celiac disease but I suspect they suffered with it all their
> lives. Currently I suspect my brother is being affected by it but he
> does not want to change his diet after seeing what I go through each
> day just to be able to eat. My sister I believe is somewhat affected
> by my father's genes however we are mixed-race & I think my mother's X
> gene is helping her with it. But out of 6 children my parents had,
> three of us are getting sicker as we get older (I nearly died by 2001)
> & the other three who take after my mother have no symptoms of the
> problems that plague us & are healthy.
>
> Oh one last thing, GI doctor did the DNA testing & there is no
> dominant gene for celiac disease in me. She thinks I have a recessive
> gene form of the disease, probably inherited by dad's mom. It is also
> real bad because my immune system is so wrecked & weak now that I am
> giving off no antibodies to gluten to help them make the diagnosis :-(
> such is life with this nasty disease :-(
>
> Good luck to you
>
>
> On 10 Aug 2005 11:01:50 -0700, "tazzastazzas" <tazzastazzas(a)libero.it>
> wrote:
>
> >Some questions about three different form of celiac disease indicate in
> >the title: -through the blood antibodies (Anti-Endomysial,
> >transglutaminase antibodies, antigliadin andibodies)exams what of the
> >three types of celiac disease is possibile to diagnose? Some of the
> >three types of celiac disease could not be noticed with blood
> >antibodies exams? -What type of exam in all three case is able to
> >notice the presence of celiac disease? Is it intestinal biopsy? Thanks.
>


From: Jerry on 21 Aug 2005 04:03
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:01:02 -0400, "Janice" <Janice(a)hotmail.ca>
wrote:

>You probably are prone to arthritus and body aches I'll bet. You will also
>be prone to cancer and parasitic infections. This indicates a pH balance
>problem. Try some sodium bicarbonate (1/8 teaspoon) each day at about 4 PM
>(not before food) and if it works look into acidosis. Magnesium supplements
>help to increase your body pH level and will solve most of your allergies.
>This is a long term process that takes months, if not years, to correct.
>
>See a Naturopathic Doctor and get some real help. MDs know nothing of this
>and either do car mechanics.

Yup. I had electrolyte imbalances forever. Finally got them under
control last year. I already am thinking I'm going to be lucky if I
don't end up with colon cancer like grandma & dad died from. I don't
know if I caught it early enough. 4 decades is an awfully long time to
go cooking my intestines.

Believe it or not from what I've been reading lately in researching
why the candida spread thru me so easily (my retarded immune system)
one of the problems I probably have right now is my pH level is
probably already too high. Candida thrives in an alkaline environment
& does poorly in an acidic environment, from what I've learned. Makes
sense with my daily diet, with what I am forced to eat each day in
order to deal with food allergies & to keep my digestive tract
functioning. I can't really handle acidy foods anymore now anyway.
Probably a byproduct of having gone too long cooking my intestines by
eating gluten all those decades. I mean if I use a little apple cider
vinegar on a salad, that's enough to mess my intestines up. That's how
bad off I am now with regards to acidy foods. I really have to watch
the acid content of what I eat now.

So the combination of sprue from the gluten test, the malnutrition
afterwards, the alkaline environment my body has now from my diet, add
the fluticasone inhaler feeding a candida infection in the sinuses
that worked its way in to my mouth & throat & gut, it was a recipe for
disaster. So that's why the scorching case of candidiasis.

Interestingly one of the recommendations for dealing with candida
overgrowth of the gut is probiotics: acidophilus, bifidus, etc. Taking
probiotics is supposed to weed the bad bacteria & yeast out of the gut
after a while by wrecking the too alkaline environment in the gut that
allows candida overgrowth to occur. Who knew.

How retarded is my immune system now? Well it did nothing while
candida worked its way throughout my body, but I used a generic
pseudoephedrine HCL product (in place of the Sudafed name brand stuff)
& this generic happened to use gluten of some form as a binder (barley
or wheat probably, along the lines of textured vegetable protein type
stuff) & my immune system instantly went bonkers over that: started
destroying my intestines immediately. Made suffering with the
candidiasis that much more agonizing. So yeast overgrowth to the point
of systemic yeast infection? Immune system plays dumb. Tiny bit of
gluten in a generic OTC nasal decongestant? Immune system goes bonkers
& starts attacking my intestines. Ain't it wonderful? Nope, I hate it.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions. Take care

>"j.a.a" <no.spam.please(a)it.wastes.bandwidth.burp> wrote in message
>news:fbjfg1l1u1r7t8g7kkhj56a35tdr178ofe(a)4ax.com...
>> I am one of those "silent" types but what we have found is I am
>> immuno-compromised. My thinking is my immune system was not
>> functioning correctly from an early age & as I got older it just got
>> worse & worse due to constant inflammation from eating gluten daily &
>> the malnutrition from the malabsorption due to the constant sprue I
>> had. I found out I had gluten enteropathy at the age of 40 btw. I
>> could not figure out what was giving me the diarrhea because it seemed
>> to be coming from everything I was eating back then.
>>
>> Recently we made a few errors. I am allergic to practically everything
>> (dust, mold, pollen, trees, grass, etc, etc, but surprisingly not to
>> dogs & cats, aren't I lucky) & my GI prescribed fluticasone inhaler
>> (called Flonase here in the U.S.). Big mistake. We did not know at the
>> time how compromised my immune system was. I did a gluten challenge
>> last December for about 10 days to see if we could detect antibodies
>> to gluten in my blood. The test came back negative & all the 10 days
>> of gluten did to me was give me sprue that I could not get under
>> control until about last month.
>>
>> However the big mistake was the fluticasone propionate inhaler & me
>> using it 2x a day as instructed by my GI for my massive sinus
>> allergies. You see fluticasone is a steroid & does decrease the immune
>> system response in the sinuses; however one side effect is candida
>> albicans infections of the sinuses, throat & mouth ("oral thrush",
>> leukoplakia, etc). Well I got a whopper of a case of candidiasis:
>> sinuses, mouth, throat, intestines, I think it was slowly becoming
>> systemic from what I felt.
>>
>> Well during this time I ran in to gluten in a few over the counter
>> medications that use gluten as a binder in some way & promptly got
>> sick as a dog from them. However my immune system did practically
>> nothing while the candidiasis tried to become systemic on me. I told
>> my doctor my immune system is retarded. I ended up on two treatments
>> of fluconazole in order to get read of the candidiasis. One doctor
>> prescribed 200mg, 2 tablets, 1 tablet to be taken 1 week apart. Well
>> that worked a bit, but the candida just came roaring back on me.
>> Apparently it was living well inside my sinuses & liked it there.
>> Another doctor prescribed 100mg, 1 tablet a day for 7 days. That did
>> the trick. No more candidiasis.
>>
>> Interesting thing that I observed in me from this however: I am pretty
>> sure the candida infection hit me from the beginning of the
>> fluticasone usage, back in November last year. What I noticed was the
>> gluten set off malnutrition & sprue in me (I got sprue bad this time:
>> weight loss, shortness of breath, easy bleeding, pale skin color, etc)
>> & the candidiasis just took off because my immune system was weakened
>> at the time from the malnutrition (malabsorption caused malnutrition).
>> However it seemed that the more the candidiasis took off in me the
>> worse the sprue got in me. It became a horrible escalating out of
>> control downhill spiral: the more malnourished I became from sprue,
>> the more the yeast took over leading to more sprue.
>>
>> However once I took the fluconazole the second time around for a week,
>> once the candidiasis went away the bathroom & digestive tract bounced
>> right back to normal. My skin color came back, no more easy bleeding,
>> no more shortness of breath, weakness, etc. Took some time to recover
>> from but I am bouncing back.
>>
>> Anyway, in my case there are no antibodies to gluten in my blood.
>> However if I eat gluten my intestines melt down, my nervous system
>> falls apart, I practically fall in to a coma when I eat whole gluten
>> now from what we found out during the gluten challenge last December.
>>
>> Oh yes I had all the biopsies done in 2002 but unfortunately it was
>> about 10 months after I'd figured out on my own that gluten was the
>> culprit that was making me sick for so many years, so not
>> unsurprisingly the tests came back negative. The nice thing was my
>> intestines had healed up 10 months after cutting the gluten out of my
>> diet. I wish the doctors here had taken me seriously back then & done
>> the tests sooner. It is a long story but they had concluded I was just
>> crazy because the lab works always showed just IgE antibodies were
>> elevated in me even while my intestines were melting down each day
>> from me eating gluten.
>>
>> Also, my Irish grandmother died of colon cancer at age 59 & my
>> Scots-Irish father died at age 57, neither had ever been diagnosed
>> with celiac disease but I suspect they suffered with it all their
>> lives. Currently I suspect my brother is being affected by it but he
>> does not want to change his diet after seeing what I go through each
>> day just to be able to eat. My sister I believe is somewhat affected
>> by my father's genes however we are mixed-race & I think my mother's X
>> gene is helping her with it. But out of 6 children my parents had,
>> three of us are getting sicker as we get older (I nearly died by 2001)
>> & the other three who take after my mother have no symptoms of the
>> problems that plague us & are healthy.
>>
>> Oh one last thing, GI doctor did the DNA testing & there is no
>> dominant gene for celiac disease in me. She thinks I have a recessive
>> gene form of the disease, probably inherited by dad's mom. It is also
>> real bad because my immune system is so wrecked & weak now that I am
>> giving off no antibodies to gluten to help them make the diagnosis :-(
>> such is life with this nasty disease :-(
>>
>> Good luck to you
>>
>>
>> On 10 Aug 2005 11:01:50 -0700, "tazzastazzas" <tazzastazzas(a)libero.it>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Some questions about three different form of celiac disease indicate in
>> >the title: -through the blood antibodies (Anti-Endomysial,
>> >transglutaminase antibodies, antigliadin andibodies)exams what of the
>> >three types of celiac disease is possibile to diagnose? Some of the
>> >three types of celiac disease could not be noticed with blood
>> >antibodies exams? -What type of exam in all three case is able to
>> >notice the presence of celiac disease? Is it intestinal biopsy? Thanks.
>>
>

From: Janice on 21 Aug 2005 09:23
L-Lysine is a known immune system enhancer.

Check it out. It works for everybody I have talked to.

If you have digestion problems try a balance free form amino acid
preperation. There are several online companies selling ood products
California. Try J-M Phamacal and Anabol Naturals


"Jerry" <no.spam.please(a)it.wastes.bandwidth.burp> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:01:02 -0400, "Janice" <Janice(a)hotmail.ca>
> wrote:
>
> >You probably are prone to arthritus and body aches I'll bet. You will
also
> >be prone to cancer and parasitic infections. This indicates a pH balance
> >problem. Try some sodium bicarbonate (1/8 teaspoon) each day at about 4
PM
> >(not before food) and if it works look into acidosis. Magnesium
supplements
> >help to increase your body pH level and will solve most of your
allergies.
> >This is a long term process that takes months, if not years, to correct.
> >
> >See a Naturopathic Doctor and get some real help. MDs know nothing of
this
> >and either do car mechanics.
>
> Yup. I had electrolyte imbalances forever. Finally got them under
> control last year. I already am thinking I'm going to be lucky if I
> don't end up with colon cancer like grandma & dad died from. I don't
> know if I caught it early enough. 4 decades is an awfully long time to
> go cooking my intestines.
>
> Believe it or not from what I've been reading lately in researching
> why the candida spread thru me so easily (my retarded immune system)
> one of the problems I probably have right now is my pH level is
> probably already too high. Candida thrives in an alkaline environment
> & does poorly in an acidic environment, from what I've learned. Makes
> sense with my daily diet, with what I am forced to eat each day in
> order to deal with food allergies & to keep my digestive tract
> functioning. I can't really handle acidy foods anymore now anyway.
> Probably a byproduct of having gone too long cooking my intestines by
> eating gluten all those decades. I mean if I use a little apple cider
> vinegar on a salad, that's enough to mess my intestines up. That's how
> bad off I am now with regards to acidy foods. I really have to watch
> the acid content of what I eat now.
>
> So the combination of sprue from the gluten test, the malnutrition
> afterwards, the alkaline environment my body has now from my diet, add
> the fluticasone inhaler feeding a candida infection in the sinuses
> that worked its way in to my mouth & throat & gut, it was a recipe for
> disaster. So that's why the scorching case of candidiasis.
>
> Interestingly one of the recommendations for dealing with candida
> overgrowth of the gut is probiotics: acidophilus, bifidus, etc. Taking
> probiotics is supposed to weed the bad bacteria & yeast out of the gut
> after a while by wrecking the too alkaline environment in the gut that
> allows candida overgrowth to occur. Who knew.
>
> How retarded is my immune system now? Well it did nothing while
> candida worked its way throughout my body, but I used a generic
> pseudoephedrine HCL product (in place of the Sudafed name brand stuff)
> & this generic happened to use gluten of some form as a binder (barley
> or wheat probably, along the lines of textured vegetable protein type
> stuff) & my immune system instantly went bonkers over that: started
> destroying my intestines immediately. Made suffering with the
> candidiasis that much more agonizing. So yeast overgrowth to the point
> of systemic yeast infection? Immune system plays dumb. Tiny bit of
> gluten in a generic OTC nasal decongestant? Immune system goes bonkers
> & starts attacking my intestines. Ain't it wonderful? Nope, I hate it.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the suggestions. Take care
>
> >"j.a.a" <no.spam.please(a)it.wastes.bandwidth.burp> wrote in message
> >news:fbjfg1l1u1r7t8g7kkhj56a35tdr178ofe(a)4ax.com...
> >> I am one of those "silent" types but what we have found is I am
> >> immuno-compromised. My thinking is my immune system was not
> >> functioning correctly from an early age & as I got older it just got
> >> worse & worse due to constant inflammation from eating gluten daily &
> >> the malnutrition from the malabsorption due to the constant sprue I
> >> had. I found out I had gluten enteropathy at the age of 40 btw. I
> >> could not figure out what was giving me the diarrhea because it seemed
> >> to be coming from everything I was eating back then.
> >>
> >> Recently we made a few errors. I am allergic to practically everything
> >> (dust, mold, pollen, trees, grass, etc, etc, but surprisingly not to
> >> dogs & cats, aren't I lucky) & my GI prescribed fluticasone inhaler
> >> (called Flonase here in the U.S.). Big mistake. We did not know at the
> >> time how compromised my immune system was. I did a gluten challenge
> >> last December for about 10 days to see if we could detect antibodies
> >> to gluten in my blood. The test came back negative & all the 10 days
> >> of gluten did to me was give me sprue that I could not get under
> >> control until about last month.
> >>
> >> However the big mistake was the fluticasone propionate inhaler & me
> >> using it 2x a day as instructed by my GI for my massive sinus
> >> allergies. You see fluticasone is a steroid & does decrease the immune
> >> system response in the sinuses; however one side effect is candida
> >> albicans infections of the sinuses, throat & mouth ("oral thrush",
> >> leukoplakia, etc). Well I got a whopper of a case of candidiasis:
> >> sinuses, mouth, throat, intestines, I think it was slowly becoming
> >> systemic from what I felt.
> >>
> >> Well during this time I ran in to gluten in a few over the counter
> >> medications that use gluten as a binder in some way & promptly got
> >> sick as a dog from them. However my immune system did practically
> >> nothing while the candidiasis tried to become systemic on me. I told
> >> my doctor my immune system is retarded. I ended up on two treatments
> >> of fluconazole in order to get read of the candidiasis. One doctor
> >> prescribed 200mg, 2 tablets, 1 tablet to be taken 1 week apart. Well
> >> that worked a bit, but the candida just came roaring back on me.
> >> Apparently it was living well inside my sinuses & liked it there.
> >> Another doctor prescribed 100mg, 1 tablet a day for 7 days. That did
> >> the trick. No more candidiasis.
> >>
> >> Interesting thing that I observed in me from this however: I am pretty
> >> sure the candida infection hit me from the beginning of the
> >> fluticasone usage, back in November last year. What I noticed was the
> >> gluten set off malnutrition & sprue in me (I got sprue bad this time:
> >> weight loss, shortness of breath, easy bleeding, pale skin color, etc)
> >> & the candidiasis just took off because my immune system was weakened
> >> at the time from the malnutrition (malabsorption caused malnutrition).
> >> However it seemed that the more the candidiasis took off in me the
> >> worse the sprue got in me. It became a horrible escalating out of
> >> control downhill spiral: the more malnourished I became from sprue,
> >> the more the yeast took over leading to more sprue.
> >>
> >> However once I took the fluconazole the second time around for a week,
> >> once the candidiasis went away the bathroom & digestive tract bounced
> >> right back to normal. My skin color came back, no more easy bleeding,
> >> no more shortness of breath, weakness, etc. Took some time to recover
> >> from but I am bouncing back.
> >>
> >> Anyway, in my case there are no antibodies to gluten in my blood.
> >> However if I eat gluten my intestines melt down, my nervous system
> >> falls apart, I practically fall in to a coma when I eat whole gluten
> >> now from what we found out during the gluten challenge last December.
> >>
> >> Oh yes I had all the biopsies done in 2002 but unfortunately it was
> >> about 10 months after I'd figured out on my own that gluten was the
> >> culprit that was making me sick for so many years, so not
> >> unsurprisingly the tests came back negative. The nice thing was my
> >> intestines had healed up 10 months after cutting the gluten out of my
> >> diet. I wish the doctors here had taken me seriously back then & done
> >> the tests sooner. It is a long story but they had concluded I was just
> >> crazy because the lab works always showed just IgE antibodies were
> >> elevated in me even while my intestines were melting down each day
> >> from me eating gluten.
> >>
> >> Also, my Irish grandmother died of colon cancer at age 59 & my
> >> Scots-Irish father died at age 57, neither had ever been diagnosed
> >> with celiac disease but I suspect they suffered with it all their
> >> lives. Currently I suspect my brother is being affected by it but he
> >> does not want to change his diet after seeing what I go through each
> >> day just to be able to eat. My sister I believe is somewhat affected
> >> by my father's genes however we are mixed-race & I think my mother's X
> >> gene is helping her with it. But out of 6 children my parents had,
> >> three of us are getting sicker as we get older (I nearly died by 2001)
> >> & the other three who take after my mother have no symptoms of the
> >> problems that plague us & are healthy.
> >>
> >> Oh one last thing, GI doctor did the DNA testing & there is no
> >> dominant gene for celiac disease in me. She thinks I have a recessive
> >> gene form of the disease, probably inherited by dad's mom. It is also
> >> real bad because my immune system is so wrecked & weak now that I am
> >> giving off no antibodies to gluten to help them make the diagnosis :-(
> >> such is life with this nasty disease :-(
> >>
> >> Good luck to you
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10 Aug 2005 11:01:50 -0700, "tazzastazzas" <tazzastazzas(a)libero.it>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Some questions about three different form of celiac disease indicate
in
> >> >the title: -through the blood antibodies (Anti-Endomysial,
> >> >transglutaminase antibodies, antigliadin andibodies)exams what of the
> >> >three types of celiac disease is possibile to diagnose? Some of the
> >> >three types of celiac disease could not be noticed with blood
> >> >antibodies exams? -What type of exam in all three case is able to
> >> >notice the presence of celiac disease? Is it intestinal biopsy?
Thanks.
> >>
> >
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