Daignosis by group consensus

[Surlygirl]

Could you be lactose intolerant? Did anyone test you for Celiac disease? Just a couple that come to mind.

[KnottedYet]

I went through the whole gallbladder shenanigan before my trouble was narrowed down to gluten intolerance/celiac sprue.

I don't know which it is, cuz I don't want an intestinal biopsy. There is s'posed to be a blood test now, but the biopsy is best.

Well, the treatement for gluten intolerance and for celiac sprue are the same, so I'm not fussing.

Mine goes from 0 to misery, and stress has a lot to do with it. (Even when I don't eat wheat, oats, barley, or rye, i can get symptoms, which my doc says sounds more like celiac sprue.) It's not just increased acid production, it's the immune system going into over drive.

google gluten intolerance and celiac disease/sprue and see what you come up with.

Some of the symptoms of gluten/celiac are pretty bizzarre.

(I even have the bald smooth patches on my tongue and the eczema on the skin sometimes. Icky. )

[LBTC]

gluten intolerance/celiac sprue.
(I even have the bald smooth patches on my tongue and the eczema on the skin sometimes. Icky. )

Wow! Many of you have provided some really good ideas for what to look into, but Knotted, you have actually mentioned things that I was not sure were related.

I have occasionally gotten eczema ever since one very bad spell of it in the winter of 2000. I had it again this spring fairly bad, but have got it under control now.

But, most curiously, I have been getting the patches on my tongue that come and go, which my doctor told me is a benign condition requiring no treatment that is called geographic tongue. This has been coming and going for almost 2 years now.

I will do more research on celliac sprue and gluten intolerance for sure, and if there is a blood test for them, I will definitely ask for it as I'm not really keen on having a biopsy! Part of me has thought these things were connected, but doctors keep assuring me they are not.....there ya go!

Thank you all for your great input! I've got some reading to do!

~T~