Methotrexate for a 2.9 CRP?

[Suzie]

Ah, so having floating stools is a sign that you're likely deficient in the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K ?
I've been taking supplements of vitamin D for a year and my levels are still low - and I've had the un-submersible stools for at least half a year before starting them.

Great advice here about not taking celiac tests at face value. I'm certainly going to persue genetic testing for it after 2 blood tests and a biopsy a year ago showed negative, but those little buggers still wont flush. Dive, submarine, dive!

Good luck with the MTX.

Suzie

[irish]

Hubby has the celiac and never had blood work done as it wasn't available when he got diagnosed. He swallowed the bullet. Also he had o folic acid in his system and the GI doc said that happens with celiac.

We have a son who had the blood work and it was negative. He had weight loss and was havaing so much gas, cramping, etc for quite a few years. I finally told him it was time to "give it up" and start the diet. His wife was going away for 2 weeks and he cleaned out the cupboard and got rid of the gluten foods.

He started the diet (which was no big deal to him cause his dad has been on it since 1978) and he gained 10 # the first month and felt much better. 

I would caution people that occasionally a person without celiac will have stools that float. This is probably an occasional thing caused by eating high fat foods. Celiacs have stools that float pretty much all the time. This has been an interesting conversation!!!lol Irish

[Suzie]

Yes Irish, it's pretty interesting! Have you ever watched that show, You Are What You Eat, with the Scottish dietician Dr Gillian McKeith? Ew, she's obsessed with looking at people's stools to diagnose their health problems.

One more nugget of TMI - I read that people with celiac usually have large, soft pale stools that float. I wonder what,( for example, mentioning no names, hypothetically speaking, for reasons of scientific enquiry you understand, ahem), hard little stools that are always darkest brown, and always, ALWAYS, float, signify? And the person in question would dearly love to lose weight but doesn't, despite not consuming too much fat (is vegetarian, almost vegan, and shuns oil and butter in all things except a small bar of chocolate and maybe 6 almonds/cashews/brazil nuts daily)?

From today, I'm going to go gluten free and see what happens. Oh, I mean the hypothetical girl with the 3-flush poops is.

Oy.

[Suzie]

Sorry for hi-jacking the thread, Kimi, but my new rhuemy is considering Rituxan just like you with the MTX, I really don't want to go that route if something else might help...



Suzie

[jazzlover]

I still say "the original mangosteen supplement." It will amaze you.

[irish]

Malabsortion floating stools are not always pale in color. Depends on lots of things, but brown is also seen. Irish