Back To The Fun Of Testing And Results

[darkmindead]

Is there such thing as borderline? Or questionable . My daughters IGA was 37 but for her age the cut off for defficiency was 34. Her TTG was >3. But I cant help but wonder if she is defficient. Anyway I surprisingly got tested for Celiac because of several issues i have had. I havve all of the symptoms except growth and losing weight issues. In fact Im having trouble losing weight and have gained if anything. My results were :

ttg >3

IGA 9 U/ML

IGA Serum 253

My doctor is a bit slow to the punch so I know I wont hear from him for weeks ( I got my test results because I have an in at the lab)

Not sure if it makes any difference but with it my HDL's were low, my LDL's were High, and my c-peptide was extremely high with a normal marker being 0-3.0 and mine at 11.0. Not sure if any of those would corrilate with the Celiac panel

[ravenwoodglass]

Have you all tried the diet? A postive celiac panel is a positive celiac panel even if only a degree or two into it. Some doctors will call a low positive a negative, until you get sick enough for those numbers to go up. Celiac is the only disease that I know of that doctors will tell you to keep harming yourself just to try and get a higher positive on a blood test or more damage to the intestine. Relying on blood work almost killed me, I don't show positive at all on the tests. 30% of us won't. The diet is the best test. If you intend to allow your doctor to biopsy, again this can rule it in, but not confirm that you don't have it, you will need to continue to eat gluten until after the biopsy. If you are going to go that route make sure you try the diet strictly for a couple of months when the testing is done, no matter what the results are.