Knowing 'No' is Knowing No More?
Apr. 10th, 2007 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexMore 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?
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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Date: 2007-04-10 02:22 pm (UTC)Yes. One member of the family is called "deadly nightshade", and it is distinguished from the only-mildly poisonous "purple nightshade" by the white flowers instead of purple.
As you dial down from those to things like potatoes, you get varying concentrations of all sorts of complex organic molecules.
Like, could I be allergic to eggplant but not tomatoes?
Yes. Or rather, your reaction to eggplant may be well underneath your radar, while tomatoes (for example) may cause you gastric distress.
Or might one nightshade provoke a worse reaction than others?
By now, you know the answer to that is "Duh!".
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Date: 2007-04-10 03:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-10 05:15 pm (UTC)So it could easily be a higher sensitivity to one than the other.
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Date: 2007-04-10 06:54 pm (UTC)