Discovering Celiac Disease: Charlie’s DNA Story
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2018
- Adopted as a child and dealing with health issues since college, Charlie was excited to take the 23andMe test to learn more about himself. His reports led to a celiac disease diagnosis from his doctor that changed his life and allowed him to finally feel normal. Learn more about your health at www.23andme.com.
Disclaimer:
Intended for use in adults to report genetic variants associated with a higher risk of developing celiac disease. Not intended to diagnose any disease or describe overall risk of developing a disease. Visit 23andme.com/test-info for additional report information. - Věda a technologie
I got my 23&Me results recently at age 35, and they show that I have the same genetic celiac variant that Charlie has. I've had chronic internal inflammation for years and years with no known cause. Celiac wasn't even on my radar. Just this morning, I had a blood test done to look for the presence of celiac! Thanks, 23&Me!
so was it positive?
I trust the dna test and listening to your own body more than eating tons of gluten and getting permanently worse for a iga test i hate this fking disease too
I just found out I have Celiac Disease from 23AndMe! The varients I have is HLA-DQA1. I knew when I took gluten out of my diet (the best I could at least), my symptoms were not as strong and my rashes went away but I never would have thought I actually had Celiac Disease. Just some sort of mild intolerace. I was hospitalized so much. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia but I just knew something else was very very wrong. It made so much sense to know I just didn't have a gluten intolerance but actual Celiac Disease. I can't explain enough it was a life saver it was to find out. I feel like I might get my life back. I can't explain how close to dying I was. I thought there's nothing that could help me anymore. I mentally was giving up because I just couldn't live like this anymore. Thank God I found out. Now I feel hopeful. Thank God I did this Genotyping test!
Any gastroenterologist that doesn't test for H. Pylori or Celiac disease for somebody who has chronic digestive issues should have their license taken away. But, we wouldn't have very many gastroenterologists left.
I agree. And it's sadly true
I'd suffered intermittently with Celiac Disease for probably 40 years and no doctor recommended the test, but a Diabetes Educator (nurse) had the presence of mind to ask if I'd ever been tested. Shame on your specialist doctors for not even trying to rule it out first!
Me too
I had health issues too. When my 23&me results came in for Celiac I went gluten free.
None of my doctors even considered this.
The damage: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, arthritis, chronic cough
I’ve been gluten free for 6 months, my cough gone within days. My joints although still damaged are pain free. I don’t know if my liver is better, but I don’t think I’m damaging it further
This is amazing, hope to hear more customer experiences through videos like these
I have the same story. 23andme made me look into celiac after finding I had one of the two variants. I just completed blood work and have an endoscopy planned for next Wednesday. Celiac has all of the symptoms I’m experiencing and I’m hoping it’s the answer so I can start my journey to feeling better.
What a great discovery you might never have known without the 23&Me results. Truly amazing.
I received kit today, and I am very excited now. 🤩
This is me! Srsly me. As adopted person and with several health problems no doctor couldn't help. Specially being half Asian. Celiac never even crossed my mind. Doing 23nme helped me figure this out. And after learning this and several months later of eating gluten to see how my gut lining was, Im happy to learn it's in pretty good shape. All due to living fairly clean life style I live. Now it just keeping up so that it continue to repair it itself. There is no days off or cheat days.
I was diagnosed with Celiac disease about 10 years ago. So when I got my 23andMe results I expected to find that I had a variant. But I don't, they didn't detect either variant in my genes.
Well that makes me happy I didn’t have it in my 23 and me either. I’m going for colonoscopy/endoscopy after finding I carry the lynch gene. I really just wanted to have Celiac disease because my niece and Aunt have it. Still hoping that’s why I’m having these issues
- Celiac disease is a common autoimmune disorder induced by ingestion of gluten in genetically susceptible individuals.
- Only a minority of those who are at genetic risk develop the disease.
-The incidence of CD has increased over the last half-century, resulting in rising interest in identifying risk factors for CD to enable prevention.
- Environmental and/or lifestyle factors play a causal role in the development of CD.
- For primary prevention (i.e., interventions before CD occurs), early feeding practices seem to have no impact on the risk of developing CD during childhood. Other environmental influences have been investigated as potential risk factors; however, they have not yet led to primary prevention strategies.
- Secondary prevention is possible through early diagnosis and treatment; however, it will not identify all CD patients as long as mass screening has not been introduced.
- As a gluten-free diet is a major challenge, tertiary prevention strategies are under evaluation; however, none of these measures are currently recommended as treatment.
(Meijer et al., 2018)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6284033/
I overlooked my 23&Me variant for years, but I’ve been having crazy symptoms recently consistent with Celiac. I’m going to ask my doctor if we can explore it.
I also have one variant - insurance is horrific about helping and certainly won't cover anything pre-existing, so I plan to try going gluten-free first. Thank you for posting this. Good luck in your health journey.
Totally eliminate grains and get on a high fat, low carb natural clean keto diet it will do wonders for you.
The strongest genetic predisposing factors for Celiac Disease, HLA DQ2 and/or HLA-DQ8, are present in about 40% of the Caucasian population. Most of these individuals do not develop CD, since the prevalence of CD is ~1% (Meijer et al., 2018)
I have celiac disease. And I will say it’s not easy.
Great idea !!!!!
I just got my results back the other day and found out I have it. And I already was making diet changes like keto and carnivore/zero carb. It seems to be the cure
The ansestry test also tests gene and celiac gene
Quinoa is a great substitute for pasta I think.