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I’ve been having symptoms of boating, abdominal pain, acid reflux, anxiety and nausea for about two years. I’ve recently had a gastroscopy about a week and a half ago. How long does it take to get the results and will I receive them in the post? I’m hoping to get a diagnosis soon as feeling nauseous everyday is literally ruining my life :/

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"Receive them in the post"? What post do you refer to? Do you mean in the follow up visit with the doctor? Did you have an endoscopy (aka, upper GI)? About a week I think.

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6 hours ago, trents said:

"Receive them in the post"? What post do you refer to? Do you mean in the follow up visit with the doctor? Did you have an endoscopy (aka, upper GI)? About a week I think.

Yes when I had a barium meal I received the results in the mail/post. Yes had upper gi (endoscopy) over a week ago, with biopsies taken.

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Mail/post? Do you mean the postal service via snail mail? What country are you in? They don't do that here in the USA. For me and many others in the USA, we can check test results via our medical provider's online tool. Each patient has an account that can be accessed online where we receive messages and test results and can even schedule appointments.

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Oh right I live in the UK so it’s abit different. We can get the results wrote to us in a letter. However wasn’t sure how long it would take as last time I waited nearly a month.

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If it has been that long I would contact them, as they should have the results by now. Did you get blood tests done for celiac disease? If so, please share your results. It would be unusual for a doctor to do only the biopsy for celiac disease, but not the blood tests. Also, in the UK it is my understanding that many cases of celiac disease are currently being diagnosed with only blood tests:

 

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Yes I had one blood test I think it was ttg and it was negative, but they said because my symptoms were strongly suggesting celiac they wanted to double check and also check for anything else aswell.

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33 minutes ago, Scott Adams said:

If it has been that long I would contact them, as they should have the results by now. Did you get blood tests done for celiac disease? If so, please share your results. It would be unusual for a doctor to do only the biopsy for celiac disease, but not the blood tests. Also, in the UK it is my understanding that many cases of celiac disease are currently being diagnosed with only blood tests:

 

 

10 minutes ago, Meggannn said:

Yes I had one blood test I think it was ttg and it was negative, but they said because my symptoms were strongly suggesting celiac they wanted to double check and also check for anything else aswell.

also I have other autoimmune diseases and my gp has said this increases the chances. I will contact them Tomorrow and ask about the results.

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If possible, please get the actual blood test results and share them here. This is because your results might be just under the cut off for celiac disease, but that certainly would not rule out gluten sensitivity, for which they currently cannot screen. Many with gluten sensitivity have elevated antibody tests, yet doctors tell them "good news, you're not a celiac and can keep eating gluten." But often it turns out they should not be eating gluten.

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10 minutes ago, Scott Adams said:

If possible, please get the actual blood test results and share them here. This is because your results might be just under the cut off for celiac disease, but that certainly would not rule out gluten sensitivity, for which they currently cannot screen. Many with gluten sensitivity have elevated antibody tests, yet doctors tell them "good news, you're not a celiac and can keep eating gluten." But often it turns out they should not be eating gluten.

Oh right thanks I didn’t know that. On letter they only put negative so no actual results visible. I will ask them and find out results of biopsy tomorrow

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