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Old 01-13-2012, 07:26 AM
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Default As Mrs. D hints at--

--with her mention of a longer glucose tolerance test, I doubt, if you've been getting tested by a general practitioner, or even a run-of-the-mill neurologist, that you've had anything resembling a comprehensive work-up. (I'd be interested in the minor liver abnormality, though--I can say that small liver enzyme increases, particularly ALT and AST, that are less than twice "normal" upper limits on lab test ranges, are often associated with fatty infiltration of the liver, which can be exacerbated by alcohol; these are usually treated with lifestyle changes first--weight loss, drinking cessation, etc. This is quite common and often found in people who are overweight or have metabolic syndrome, which is a pre-diabetic situation.)

However, we shouldn't be too fast to attribute this to glucose tolerance problems, though a presentation such as yours is commonly caused by that. The gluten observation is intriguing--gluten sensitivity with or without frank celiac is absolutely associated with neuropathy and with other neural dysfunctions (though I don't expect a lot of GP's to know that--have you at least had the anti-gliadin and anti-transglutaminase assays done to check for possible gluten issues, which are also more common than most doctors think?).

I'd also say you should compare your test results to the famous Liza Jane spreadsheets, which were designed to be as comprehensive a list of tests for neural symptoms as could be thought of, and which also serve as a great way to track results over time:

www.lizajane.org


If you want to share your test results with us we'd be more than happy to take a crack at interpretation (and we're pretty good at that, if I may say so).
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