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What a Crock 6 Sep 2011 | 03:19 am
From this article at NPR News: "Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School, says (chronic fatigue) patients need to change how t...
a long-overdue update 7 Jun 2011 | 07:47 am
Hi folks, sorry for the long delay in posting. I'll try to bring all the various threads from previous blog entries up to date in this post. I wish I had good news to report, but I don't. In Septembe...
Cymbalta 29 Sep 2010 | 07:30 am
So I've been on 30mg Cymbalta for 5 days now. It's been a mixed bag. On the plus side, my muscle pain is significantly improved, and I'm feeling less despondent and generally in a better mood. On the...
went to see a rheumatologist today 21 Sep 2010 | 09:10 am
After a 2 month wait, I finally had my appointment with a highly-recommended rheumatologist today. I was pretty impressed with the initial visit. He spent a lot of time taking down my history, asking ...
Hyperparathyroidism? 12 Sep 2010 | 05:55 am
Well I'm beginning my 10th week gluten-free, and still not seeing much improvement, beyond some modest GI symptoms. I'm planning to stick with the diet for at least a couple more months, but I'm getti...
genetic test for Celiac: I'm HLA DQ8 Heterozygous 25 Aug 2010 | 06:43 am
Quick update- the results of the genetic test for Celiac came in today. I'm heterozygous for HLA DQ8. She only ran the test for DQ2 and DQ8. My understanding is that this indicates a "moderate" risk f...
update: "Mild villous blunting" 17 Aug 2010 | 10:43 am
Today marks 6 weeks post-biopsy, and 6 weeks on the gluten-free diet. On the bright side, I have seen some gradual improvement in GI symptoms- the rumbling, gas & bloating that I used to get after mos...
Celiac biopsy negative, bloodwork positive 16 Jul 2010 | 02:33 pm
So I had the endoscopy and colonoscopy performed last week, and got the results back this morning- all is normal. Given that the previous blood-tests were strongly positive, I asked the doctor whethe...
New bloodwork results: Celiac looking more probable 19 Jun 2010 | 12:49 am
Got a call from the gastroenterologist on Thursday with some potentially good news. She repeated the bloodwork that had initially been done by my primary care doc, which you'll recall revealed an elev...
Visit with a Gastroenterologist 17 Jun 2010 | 01:13 pm
I had my first visit with the gastroenterologist on Monday. She agreed that Celiac Disease was within the realm of possibilities. She's ordered up an endoscopy and (shudder) colonoscopy, both to be do...
