Need Help With Blood Test

[Neal77]

I received my blood test today and I would like some help figuring it out.

The doctor said I tested positive for it and I had an endoscopy and they said everything was normal. I started doing a gluten free diet about 1 1/2 months ago and I am feeling much better and I have even stopped taking prilosec for the heartburn I would always have. So anyway, here are the blood test results

IGA,Serum, Celiac Disease reference range 81-463 results 467

Gliadin Antibody (IGA) reference range neg <11 equivocal 11-17 positive >17 results 14

TTG Antibody, IGA reference range neg <5 equivocal 5-8 positive >8 results <3

Well, thats it. I hope someone here can tell me what all this means

Thank you

[sb2178]

1. You're not IGA deficient, so the values of the tests are reasonably accurate.

2. Your antigliadin (anti-gluten) antibodies are somewhat elevated but not enough to definitely diagnose you as positively celiac.

3. Your anti-tissue (TTG) antibodies are still normal, which means that your intestines aren't destroyed. See normal biospy. (This is good. You can still absorb food.)

There are a couple of views on these sorts of results. Basically, there are people who think that it is a lesser disease where your intestines are not destroyed and you are just miserable. There are people who think that the gluten (antigliadin) reaction is happening in different organ systems, like your skin, joints, or brain. There are also people who would say that your results are celiac disease at the very beginning. In other words, before your body has destroyed your intestines and if you were to keep eating gluten, your immune system would take out some villi.

There are also silly doctors who think that your results mean nothing. But, given your results from the diet, you can verify that's not true.

Hope that helps. There isn't a ton of celiac/gluten sensitivity research on the development of the disease, so sometimes it's hard to know exactly what/where we all are. The diet results should reign supreme, always.

[Skylark]

So these are tests after a month and a half gluten-free? That makes them a little hard to interpret. Tests fall the longer you're off gluten, and some people look normal after a few months. The anti-gliadin IgA means your body does have some reaction to gluten, but doctors won't usually diagnose celiac from that result alone. People can have anti-gliadin IgA and OK-looking intestines - sounds like you're that way.

If you feel better gluten-free, that's the important thing. Glad you found something that helps and gets you off Prilosec.

[Neal77]

Thank you for information. It does help. I think I do have a sensitivity to gluten. I know I have had a few things with gluten in it (like soy sauce and oyster sauce we put in our fried rice) and I have been fine with that. I had the blood test done a year ago but I just got a copy of it the other day. I do feel much better since I have stopped eathing wheat products though so I think I will keep doing that.

I did go gluten free for a week and then i went back to eating normal and after the 2nd night of eating gluten I started getting the runs and a fever and wound up going to emergency because I started getting the shakes really bad. They told me there that I had the stomach flu. I asked the doc if he thought this was because I went back to eating gluten and he said it wasn't because I had a fever. I still have my doubts. Anyway thank you again for the info. I have learned a lot hanging out here in this forum.

[nora-n]

You say the blood tests were a year old.

Now typically the antigiadin test is the first one to turn positive, then the ttg test.

So in theory, the antigliadin test might have gotten higher by now and the ttg might have turned positive .

I mean until you went gluten free.