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Old 10-25-2009, 10:29 AM
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Hello everyone.

My 24 yo daughter, who has returned home due to divorce and college, was diagnosed with Hashimoto's in 2006. Surgical removal of left lobe and is on replacement hormone meds.
Her new doctor has been testing her for everything and we have found intolerance to gluten/wheat/casein-cow milk/soy/maize-corn, which caused a new batch of tests Celiac Disease Comprehensive Panel -- Tissue Transglutaminase Antibody, IGA <3 U/mL (I gues she is negative??)
IMMUNOGLOBULIN A 515 H 81-463 mg/dL (this is high)


But that is it for blood I believe for Celiac Disease for the next one is Magnesium, RBC and IGF-1, then others for hormones and cortisol, etc.

I have her scheduled to meet with a gastro for the biopsy to determine the celiac. But now after being here, I see most blood works cover more areas than what she had done.
She works part time, attends classes full time and we don't know what is causing her problems. I don't even know where to begin?? We have been blaming hypo thyroid for all of her ills and poor care by her doctors. Now, this is something way different and new to us.
Is it adrenals? Thyroid? Gut? It seems as if her problems became worse during a very stressful separation/divorce, moving back home, beginning classes again. Could it just be the hashi's and stress?
Should I find a doctor for her that specializes in auto-immune disease? I have no idea what I am doing!
Any and all info - put in as simplest terms as possible for the noob - would be greatly appreciated. Her doctor now has a let's wait and see and her mother wants to get all the info yesterday! Thanks.
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