Knowing 'No' is Knowing No More?

[drwex]

More un-wellness stuff. We cut because we care.


The blood test for celiac came back negative. That's totally unsurprising, and something of a relief as I've watched the sucktasticness of this disease in several of my friends. However, my doc doesn't have any other explanation for the oddities seen in my small intestine on the last round of X rays.


Sorry for the nasty mental image, but giardiasis has a symptomatology that matches to a good degree and the doc agreed that some people do have histamine reactions to this kind of infestation. Anyway, it's not a parasite.


The next step is definitely a GI specialist, which is currently scheduled for June something. Neither my doc nor I like that answer so we're going to try to get them to make it sooner. I give them until Friday to improve the situation, then I unleash Pygment on them.


Meanwhile I'm thinking a couple steps ahead. My current theory is a food allergy, possibly nightshades. Two questions for the assembled knowledge base. Google isn't giving me clear answers.
1. Is it possible to be allergic to wheat or gluten without having celiac disease?
2. Are some nightshades worse than others? Like, could I be allergic to eggplant but not tomatoes? Or might one nightshade provoke a worse reaction than others?

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[coraline]

i believe the answer to both of those is yes, but that's based on some observation of people i know with allergies, and also on "it's the human immune system, just about anything is possible", not on research i can point you to, so it's probably not a very useful response.

good luck...

[drwex]

Thanks.