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GA connected to liver?

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valerief
valerief

I have had GA for about 5 years now. Only on my hands, which is pretty unattractive because your hands are always visible and it looks like ringworm!

In the last year my liver enzyme levels have been high. When I looked up what could be causing it, one of the possibilities was autoimmune hepatitis. I'm hearing in this forum that following a gluten-free diet seems to help keep the GA away. Celiac's disease is an autoimmune illness as well. I was wondering if anyone here has had elevated liver enzymes?

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  • j0603
    j0603 valerief

    Posted

    Hi,

    I have had GA for 3 years now and have routinely had my blood work done with no abnormalities. I don't have celiac or any other autoimmune issues but this one. If your GA is caused by a gluten allergy maybe taking gluten out of your diet will help, but that's if gluten is causing your GA.

    I have had a couple theories on what caused me to get GA one is that my silicone breast implant ruptured, could it be from silicone traveling through my body? The other is the GA appeared shortly after I received a TB test was the test too much for my immune system or tainted?

    What ever the cause, I continue to get new circles and so far plaquenil and cortisone injections directly into the circle are the only things that clear this horrible rash up.

    Please keep posting I continue to hope a "cure" will come. At the very least it would be great to know what is making our skin cells morph to the extent that our bodies won't recognize them and create this response to destroy them.

    ~ Julie

    • sarahsings
      sarahsings j0603

      Posted

      Hi, Julie. 

      Those are are good thoughts. My thought would be that more people with GA would share those common factors. It would be cool if everyone on this forum could make a list of all foods, products, environments, habits and health conditions they have/use and see if there are common denominators. That would take awhile and the lists would be long, but I wonder if it would be helpful. 

      I am diabetic. I have gone off sugar/starch rigidly previously and my spots have gone away. Now, after blowing that and going back to starches, they are far greater in number and when I eat yeast, they darken and grow. 

      I want this condition to teach me something. I want to learn what the cause is so I can help others help themselves. Doctors are NOT NOT NOT the answer because they don't HAVE any answers. I keep telling myself it is not long term and we are going to figure this out. 

      Sarah

       

    • j0603
      j0603 sarahsings

      Posted

      Hi Sarasings, yes! That would be a great place to start but a lot of work. I had one dermatologist tell me that GA is an autoimmune disease and just like any other autoimmune disease the "why" we get them remains a mystery. GA sufferers could just have sensitive or genetically flawed immune systems. I have two immediate family members with autoimmune disease and a family history of diabetes so we may be missing a chromosome or something. I have also wondered if finding a "cure" for GA would also be finding a cure for all autoimmune disease which, like cancer, isn't financially feasible for the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

      Hopefully I am not rambling but just saying... what do you think?

    • sarahsings
      sarahsings j0603

      Posted

      The predominant thought that comes to mind here is that there are natural answers that don't require the medical researchers' excuses there isn't enough funding. I feel there is knowledge they hide because how would they make money providing known cures. Maybe cynical but that's my gut belief. We'll get there.. smile

    • j0603
      j0603 sarahsings

      Posted

      I agree with you! Have you suffered with emotional stress or trauma as a child and adult? I certainly have and I have wondered if it wore my immune system down .....
    • sarahsings
      sarahsings j0603

      Posted

      Bwahahahahha!!!!!!!!!!

      That is a sarcastic laugh. Trauma? What is THAT? I'm

      Sorry for yours. But, sure. Plus, I am a terrible diabetic and am grateful I'm not in worse shape. I go to the chiropractor and try to eat well, but there's a lot of falling off the wagon.

      I have avoided western medicine, but I wonder about food dyes, adrenals, taking phen-fen in the 90's, food allergy to eggs, chemicals, etc, so many things.....

    • TraceyD
      TraceyD sarahsings

      Posted

      Hi Sarah,

      ?I am also T1 diabetic for 27 years.  Just had GA show up last year.  I just started a Keto diet.  I'm hoping that it will affect the GA positively as a bonus to crazy good blood sugars lately.

    • sarahsings
      sarahsings TraceyD

      Posted

      Hmmmm....interesting. I wonder if this is candida. I've also wondered about inflammation and from

      What. AND....crazy weird...but wonder how honey bees could be part of the solution.

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