Endoscopy

[Oliverg]

Hi I have been waiting for my endoscopy results for 3 weeks now they took 6 biopsies I had the follow appointment today. I went to meet the gastro and they have somehow haven't  got my results and cannot find them. They where supposed to take a blood test when I had the endoscope which they forgot to ( check iron levels etc) so I'm now having to wait another 3 weeks for another follow up. He has booked in for a dexa bone scan I do not understand why they have booked me in for the bone scan considering I haven't been "diagnosed yet" 

 

Is this happened to anyone else??

 

thanks 

[Scott Adams]

Welcome to the forum, and I'm sorry to hear of their ineptness. I'm not sure, in all the years I've been on this forum, of a situation like this. Losing your blood an biopsy results is tantamount to malpractice, and if any additional expenses are incurred from these errors it should be on them. Is there any hope of finding these test results, or have they now given up?

I just want to remind you, in case you didn't know, that you need to be eating ~2 slices worth of wheat bread a day for 6-8 weeks leading up to a blood test, and at least 2 weeks before a biopsy, otherwise the results may be false negatives.

If a bone scan is done with regard to possible celiac disease it's normally done after a diagnosis, rather than beforehand, but it would not hurt to do before.