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Hello All -

I had my panel run more than a week ago and still haven't heard anything back. My doctor had said that since the lab had to send the test out, it would take a while longer than in house tests and that he thought it'd be about a week. I also allowed some extra time for post-holiday backup (I had it right after new years) but I'm getting anxious.

I'm just wondering how long it took for all of you to get your antibody tests back.

My doctor and I agreed that regardless of the results I'm going to have an endoscopy but we're waiting for these to come back first. I'm getting impatient, especially because it seems that my symptoms are only getting worse and I'm anxious to begin my exclusion diet but I need to wait until after the biopsy is taken! :unsure:

Thanks,

Phedre


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It was about a week for me! I would be calling and asking about them if you still don't have them.

I did mine testign teh same way. We did the blood tests and scheduled a biopsy right away before we even got teh blood work back.

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It was about a week for me! I would be calling and asking about them if you still don't have them.

I did mine testign teh same way. We did the blood tests and scheduled a biopsy right away before we even got teh blood work back.

Yeah, I'm going to give him a ring tomorrow to at least check the status of things. Basically all of this testing is just to make things official before I go on the diet - I'm still going to do it anyway to see if it helps, especially after reading about all the people here who tested negative and then improved on it!

Thanks :)

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