Your Experience With Testing

[jaysmom]

We had our first Gastro appointment last week and they drew blood. This coming week we go back for the breath test and upper GI where he is to drink something than have an image taken of it.

As I am new to the process and confused about what to do I was just wondering what others experiences have been. Our 9yr old still has horrific gas, diarrhea, stomach pain, rash, nasuea, fatigue and general pedi was no help so our eggs are in the GI's basket now.

Why is it so hard to get an answer?

We will talk to the Dr this week the same day the breath test and GI thing is done to get results but just betting on previous experience I doubt there will be an answer.

[Kibbie]

Its all going to depend on the Dr. My daughter had her blood drawn and about 5 day later (including the weekend) I received a phone call that she had tested positive for Celiac Disease. Her MRI (we thought it could be a brain tumor) and upper GI were canceled and we scheduled a biopsy instead.

The biopsy was about 2 weeks after that phone call and I had to continue giving her gluten until then. The day before her biopsy was the last day I ever gave her gluten.

So it took about 3 weeks from blood work to biopsy... an we had about 2-3 weeks of sever symptoms before the blood work.