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I'm sorry but your doctor was incorrect when saying that you only have to be eating gluten for two weeks to get a valid antibody test. Unfortunately, many general practitioners and more than a few GI docs are not up to speed when it comes to diagnosing and advising patients with regard to celiac disease. Two weeks may have been acceptable for the endoscopy/biopsy but the serum antibody test actually...Tracy66, also be aware that serum vitamin and mineral level testing may not tell the whole story since they don't measure what is actually getting to the tissues. Deficiencies can also be masked in some cases by supplements. A case in point is a B12 deficiency being masked by folate supplementation. Really, it can be better to observe the effects on the body and on behavior when it comes to diagnosing...Was the other testing saliva or blood tests? My other thought is that there is greater room for error in saliva than in blood dna? I’m not even close to being scientifically minded so it’s just a guess based on seeing the difference in results for our son. Here are the results. The one with the “positive” was the blood dna test. I’m going to have to make a new post for ...