Does This Prove I Don't Have Celiac? Any Help Would Be Greatly Appreciated

[kapoy]

I've been not feeling well for about a year after I 'caught' a relatively bad cold that morphed into a week long migraine, violent vomiting and then left me with fatigue and a constant 'full feeling' along with brain fog, fake arthritis (I have swollen joints that upon examination doctors will tell me is arthritis and then when they get the blood work tell me it is not but offer no other explanation)and myriad of other weird and random things. I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome about 6 months ago, for which there is nothing that can be done. It was an ordeal even getting to that diagnosis. A lot of doctors would just tell me it was due to migraines and would refuse to believe that a 28 yr. old felt like a senior citizen.

Lately I have felt that the digestion aspect of what has been going on with me has been overlooked. I never feel hungry and I constantly feel bloated, have stomach pains after eating and frequently am constipated. I don't have D but when I do go the stool usually floats and has muscus on it.

Recently I've been paying more attention to what I eat. I know that after I eat pizza I feel worse. I did a few mini tests and tried not eating gluten and I seemed to have more active days. I went to the doctor and got a blood test. I started gluten free, dairy free, and yeast free the day after the test. I spent the next day throwing up all day. I'm not sure why or if that's normal.

My main question is about my blood work. I'm wondering if my test results rule out a gluten intolerance enough that I could start eating gluten and only worry about yeast? Which I have since found out runs in my family.

IGA, SERUM 330 (ref range 70-400 mg/dl)

TTG Antibody, IGA 2 (ref range 0-6 U/mL)

Thanks for any help anyone can provide. I'm a little too brain foggy right now to decipher the results on my own. They also seem to be different blood work than other people have gotten. I have read on here that some test results can give false negatives but I'm wondering if these values are enough to be pretty proof evident that I don't have a gluten intolerance. Which would be nice to rule out but if the no yeast doesn't prove fruitful either then I'm back at the beginning with no clue.

Thanks and good luck to everyone trying to figure out what's going on with their bodies.

-k

[ravenwoodglass]

No those tests do not firmly rule out celiac. For one thing a comple panel was not run and for another even with a full panel false negatives are not uncommon. Your symptoms do suggest celiac or gluten intolerance. You may want to see if your doctor will do an endoscopy with biopsies to check your villi, but even then false negatives are not uncommon. After you have had all the tests you choose to have you should do a strict trial of the gluten free diet for at least a couple of months and see if it helps. It can take a bit of time to heal and we often have some ups and downs at first.