Colonoscopy, was: Re: Seacure

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Dear Marilyn,

Go to Enterolabs.com and read about a stool test that can test for

celiac (as well as the gene test) and that does not require you to be

eating gluten. IT is pretty accurate, possibly more so that the blood

test. Judy

> >just a reply on the Celiac testing, I think

> >there is a genetic test that would require blood

> >test. I don't think you have to go on a gluten

> >filled diet with it. It could at least tell you if you carry the gene?

>

> I do not know -- I may ask the next time I see

> the gastro after the colonoscopy. (The next time

> I see him will be for that, and I don't think

> that is the time to be asking about things like

> that. I'm having enough trouble with the fact

> that a patient with apnea should ALWAYS use their

> xPAP machine for any kind of sedation, and the

> gastro doesn't think I need it for something as short as a colonoscopy.

>

>

> — Marilyn

> New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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