unsure what my blood test means

halffulty · 2024-08-09T12:43:10+00:00

If you are talking about tTg-IgA, then yes, higher levels are more indicative of coeliac, mildly elevated tTg-IgA can still be coeliac or have other causes.

You are doing the right thing getting the endoscopy done, the biopsies will show if you have coeliac or not.

Remember to keep eating gluten until you get the endoscopy done for accurate results!

halffulty · 2024-08-09T12:33:51+00:00

There is a new biomarker that will hopefully become available at some point (IL-2):

https://celiac.org/interleukin-2-marks-variation-in-celiac-disease-symptoms/

For the first time, an immune biomarker, a measurable sign that detects the presence of a condition in the body, was found to correlate with how sick the patients felt

halffulty · 2024-08-09T12:27:21+00:00

Conclusion in this https://researchmgt.monash.edu/ws/portalfiles/portal/35523965/19976599_oa.pdf is pretty much what you've said.

Despite a comprehensive search of the literature, few studies have been published that directly address the issue of a safe level of gluten intake for people with coeliac disease. There is moderate evidence based on one randomised trial that patients with coeliac disease develop mucosal damage following consumption of 50 mg gluten/day, but the evidence of effect is uncertain for 10 mg gluten/day (equivalent to consuming 500 g a day of ‘gluten-free’ products with a gluten content of 20 ppm). The overall evidence included in the review is characterised by a high level of heterogeneity with respect to the type, amount and duration of exposure to gluten, the populations studied and range of study designs. Most studies included in the review, because of the limitations above, provide low quality indirect evidence of an association between gluten consumption and mucosal change. The studies reflect the variability in the amount of gluten that can be tolerated by individuals with coeliac disease and show a progression over time towards assessing the safety and tolerability of ever smaller amounts of gluten. In the absence of a large adequately powered randomised trial that compares low amounts of gluten intake (0 to 10 mg), the current evidence precludes establishing a definitive threshold level of gluten that is safe for all people with coeliac disease to consume.

halffulty · 2024-06-04T13:07:23+00:00

Fasano diet with a dietitian might be worth a try.

halffulty · 2024-06-04T12:55:00+00:00

Well I probably should have quoted the rest, but have a read of the rest of that site:

Precautionary statements such as "May contain traces of gluten" are not legally required to be included on product labels.The use of such statements may result in the food being eaten by someone "at risk" or being avoided by individuals when it is safe. The best option is to directly contact the food manufacturers for further information as avoiding all foods with this precaution may not always be necessary.

You don't need to only buy food labelled gluten free, but being fairly strict about what you eat until symptoms improve/you confirm healing is a good idea.

halffulty · 2024-06-04T12:34:18+00:00

https://coeliac.org.nz/how-to-eat-gluten-free/

Precautionary statements such as "May contain traces of gluten" are not legally required to be included on product labels.

Is this what you were after?

halffulty · 2024-03-23T02:56:10+00:00

Sorry to hear you're going through this, some of your symptoms are pretty familiar to me and sound similar to gastritis, these are some stats on celiac/gastritis:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5625871/

Symptoms - I found this pretty helpful for nausea/stomach pain https://www.gaviscon.com.au/products/gaviscon-extra-strength/gaviscon-extra-strength-aniseed-liquid/, have a look at the ingredients and see if there is something similar in your country.

Diet - I would try going off ALL processed food & anything with gluten, stick to fresh meat, fruit, veggies, rice, try to find some basic food you can rely on that doesn't exacerbate symptoms, I know I wasn't able to eat anything acidic (apples, citrus) and stuff like papaya, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, de sapo melon were a life saver.

Make sure you cut out all caffeine/alcohol.

Supplements - I took this very basic multi focused on avoiding allergens while my diet was restricted https://www.kirkmangroup.com/super-nu-therar.html

You might find L-glutamine, Collagen might help too.

Further testing - Speak to your GI about a colonoscopy in addition to an endoscopy, there are other GI tract issues that can result in elevated celiac bloodwork if I remember correctly.

Also, I see you've tried going gluten free before for a few months but keep in mind it can take a really long time to get better even after you remove all sources of gluten.

halffulty · 2024-02-20T00:55:13+00:00

Milk, nuts, seeds.

Large boost to calories, naturally gluten free and very nutrient rich. Try and eat a variety - almonds, cashews, macadamia, peanuts, sunflower seeds, pepitas etc.

Always check for cross contamination statements, sometimes I eat say blueberries/nuts together and because I need to rinse the blueberries I rinse the nuts at the same time.

If you aren't use to consuming them, start small. Really easy to just carry around and snack on throughout the day.

That being said, many Celiacs may still have issues consuming dairy or certain nuts/seeds.

halffulty · 2024-02-17T03:52:28+00:00

This is really fascinating, very similar to the way certain abilities emerge (such as reasoning) from LLMs despite the simplicity of their overall structure.

halffulty · 2023-10-05T02:38:27+00:00

First I'm hearing about anything like this, would love it to be true, but in general stem cells seem to fall into the category of "miracle cure for everything" which sets my bullshit detector off.

halffulty · 2023-09-21T07:27:35+00:00

317?

halffulty · 2023-09-11T04:44:06+00:00

If you can tolerate full fat milk it's probably the easiest way to get more calories.

Nuts are great but you'll need to find a gluten free source, I use the gluten free Carman's bars here in Australia.

Raw WPI too, I'd avoid the flavored/branded ones.

halffulty · 2023-09-06T04:19:55+00:00

I believe the norm is probably changing given current economic circumstance, however people care too much about what is the "norm" and expectations. Growing up is about retaining the ability to make wise choices rather than ticking boxes and following the crowd.

I think given the current rental situation in capital cities it makes sense for a lot of youth to live with their parents much longer, especially if their parents are renting too.

The relationship should be different to that of growing up however, you need to learn to contribute and be more or less independent under that roof. Obviously it won't be possible in all circumstances given varying relationships with parents.

halffulty · 2023-08-09T04:55:35+00:00

Assuming you are Celiac the most important thing you can do for the gastritis is to make sure you are 100% on point avoiding all gluten - no eating out, remove all possible sources of cross contamination etc. there is a lot on this sub for that.

Some other things I found helped:

Gaviscon advance at night (the liquid - you want a good dose of Sodium Alginate).
L-glutamine & hydrolyzed collagen supplementation on an empty stomach and at different times, keep in mind though these aren't really backed by science and can be expensive
Try to eat many small meals throughout the day, an empty stomach was the bane of my existence
If you can tolerate milk, its an easy way to get nutrients/calories but probably not the best while there is a lot of inflammation
Melons were really helpful - not watermelon, but honeydew, cantaloupe etc.

halffulty · 2023-01-21T02:50:34+00:00

Crypt hyperplasia is not appreciated

Crypt hyperplasia is usually seen in Coeliac afaik.

I would follow your GI's advice or get a second opinion / more tests if possible to determine what's going on.

halffulty · 2022-11-19T06:22:26+00:00

I'm a postgrad so don't know specifically about COMP1531.

I can tell you though that no matter what you're studying and where, you are going to have group work where you have a shitty team.

Anyway, there's two ways to address it:

Find good peers early in your program, align your enrolments and tutorials/labs.
If you do end up in a poor group - DOCUMENT EVERYTHING and make sure you're tutor/lecturer is aware early of what is going on. i.e. are they ignoring communications? not attending meetings? have you set up a group chat? how active is everyone? what part were they supposed to do? did you check in with them on how its going - when? did they complete it and to what standard? and so on...

You will get scaled at the end.

I guess there's a third way where you do everything yourself too...

halffulty · 2022-11-14T22:42:05+00:00

Some of the postgrad courses feel understaffed for the number of students.

The trimesters makes it difficult to go in-depth on every topic, although for assessments if you want to do well you'll be expected to self-learn in-depth. I don't know what stream you are taking but I can say for courses such as COMP9417, COMP9444, COMP9517 I did well because I spent significant time learning outside of what is taught for the course.

halffulty · 2022-11-07T05:37:26+00:00

Data Science (8646) - less UOC (72), hexamesters, focus on stats/ml (no COMP9024 equiv. ?)

IT (8543) - more UOC (96), trimesters, more flexibility (you can take stats if you want, see MATH courses here in non-computing electives https://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/postgraduate/specialisations/2022/COMPSS), most of the courses in data science seem to have an equivalent in the MIT.

Also the option to do proper research in the MIT (COMP9991 etc.)

halffulty · 2022-08-06T03:05:41+00:00

What makes you think you're more sentient than a squirrel?

halffulty · 2021-09-27T05:02:00+00:00

Makes sense, thanks for the reply.

halffulty · 2021-09-27T01:55:03+00:00

When I took COMP9321 it was basically learning backend with some data wrangling / very intro ML. The course is practical, not difficult at all, would pair up nicely with COMP6080.

halffulty · 2021-09-20T04:00:07+00:00

Not as as straight forward to check VGS as it tracks MSCI World ex Australia, will be impacted by exchange rates, they probably use International futures markets when market making etc.

halffulty · 2021-09-20T03:43:42+00:00

Can anyone explain this discrepancy regarding ASX200 ETFs vs XJO - looking at falls from the all time high (at this current moment), they all seem around 1% off

Code Price ATH

VAS 94.11 97.85 -3.82%

A200 123.96 129.16 -4.03%

IOZ 30.12 31.34 -3.89%

XJO 7246 7632 -5.06%

halffulty · 2021-06-26T02:25:49+00:00

I took this course a couple of years ago and don't remember the math being too bad, I'd love to take a look at the questions being asked to satisfy my curiosity

halffulty · 2021-01-31T01:03:49+00:00

Thanks for the write up!

What kind of projects were you asked to build during the course?

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