Re: what could the constipation be was: recommended tests

March 20, 2006

wrote: " I was diagnosed with celiac via the blood test. Yes, my

doctor could have

ordered the biopsy, but he said I would know for sure just by going on the

gluten free diet. The improvement was so dramatic, that there's no way that

I am not a celiac. The way we saw it, was that there's no reason to rack up

more bills (I had been through years of tests and the bills were running

quite high) just to prove what we could prove through diet. "

I'm wondering just what this could be? I have IBS but don't know why. My

son has chronic constipation though not as bad as other children. He will go

3-4 days without a bm, have one each day for a few days or have one day of a lot

of pooping (he would eat a lot of fruit I think because of the laxative effect),

then the cycle would start all over again. He's doing so much better on the

diet.

so why worry about giving it a diagnosis. I guess it would just help because

I'm a concrete thinker in some ways. I'd like to know what happened here. If

it isn't celiac then perhaps he will be able to use that information in the

future. If it is just dybiosis then don't we heal the gut, stay on a healthy

diet and probiotics and hopefully we'll be better? I was better for along time

after ds was born. I lost a ton of weight due to a bland, simple diet..not

healthy, I'll admit, but when i started eating again, I could have bread and no

problem. It was the spices, garlic, some cheeses, restaurant foods that got me;

not the whole grains and milk. I loved eating grains, not because I had this

crazy addiction for carbs like that but because I felt full and energetic.

Alas, I've bought into this diet now because after 3 weeks ds is doing a ton

better, i'm feeling more energetic but my IBS is still there. I figure I just

have to get this thing healed.

So what else could constipation be? I understand it's a leaky gut symptom

but.... I guess I should stop questioning and just do, but I'm feel that being

open to the possibilities is a plus. I don't feel like any doc is going to look

at my son and say he needs to be on this diet. So the only support I feel that I

have is here because most docs, even some who support the use of SCD, will not

think that ds is serious enough to be on the SCDiet.

Any thoughts?

gwen

luca-3

scd 3 weeks.

HTH,

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>

>Reply-To: pecanbread

>To: pecanbread

>Subject: Re: Re: recommended tests

>Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:08:26 -0800 (PST)

>

> " Jody G. " momtobandj@...> wrote:

>There is a genetic screening for Celiac, but it is not 100% reliable.

>Even if it is positive, it doesn't " prove " that someone has Celaic

>disease. If it is negative, it doesn't completely rule out the

>possibility.

>

>I don't think that a doctor will give a definitive Celiac diagnosis

>without the biopsy.

>And to do that, I am pretty certain that the person will have to go

>back to eating a regular diet for an extended period of time (6 weeks

>I think). "

>

> Yes, this was what we learned. I'm really interested in what people

>think about the stool testing through some of the other labs like Entero or

>Great Plains? Have other celiac been diagnosed by a doc, by stool testing

>or by their own intuition?

>

> gwen

>

>Luca-3

> scd 3 weeks

>

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March 20, 2006