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Posted 9/28/2011 5:20 PM (GMT 0)
I see and know people who are helped by Wheat Free (NOT GLUTEN FREE) diets. How do I know my UC diagnosis is correct? I don't recall any biopsy result confirming this, just my GI looking up my rear while I was "flaring".

This is an interesting article, her UC was cured... did she have UC? Do I? Do you?

indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/09/preventative-cardiologist-wheat-is-addictive-and-causes-weight-gain/
Posted 9/28/2011 5:31 PM (GMT 0)
A good GI will always test a patient that is having bowel issues for Celiacs disease even if there is clear evidence that crohn's or UC is present. I've had 4 GI's in my 20 yrs of having IBD and although they knew I had IBD they still tested me for Celiacs, where I live it's just the common protocol.
Posted 9/28/2011 5:39 PM (GMT 0)
I took a look at the article. It does sound like she is predisposed to colon inflammation. Her body has trouble digesting wheat. Her body could have responded in many ways, yet it responded in her colon.

Your GI probably took a biopsy when he/she did a scope.

I think it's important to first figure out what external factor(s) are causing your IBD. Once you figure out the cause, you can look into whether or not that cause could have given you IBD without your being predisposed. And I think that cause would have to be something that is known to either destroy good fecal bacteria or promote the spread of bad fecal bacteria. That's just my opinion. I don't think there are any set rules on this without being tested.
Posted 9/29/2011 4:04 AM (GMT 0)
to me, that would be 2 separate issues.

UC has a fairly specifit pattern of inflammation and healing...but other things can mimic where the inflammation is.

UC diagnosis is usually through a process of elimination.
I don't believe the "lady" was cured by eliminating wheat. There are many misdiagnosis, and many reasons for "colitis", which can be mistakenly assumed by patients to mean UC.

I absolutely have UC...well controlled and never as bad as the first year.
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Posted 9/29/2011 2:35 PM (GMT 0)
What Quincy said. I understand your frustration. It's hard having a disease that basically means we get a certain kind of inflammation that they don't know the cause(es) of. I have UC in the sense that my body hates my colon.
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