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Thank you so much, Laura. Those results were unreadable to me! I really appreciate your help on this. So that would make me homozygous for DQ2? I wish they'd just give us plain english...

Hi, I'm in the middle of a horrifyingly bad gluten challenge in preparation for my biopsy, etc., so please excuse any confused-sounding bits of this. Before subjecting me to a gluten challenge, I had the genetic testing done. I don't entirely understand the results, but the gist is that I'm positive for one of the types: HLA-DQ2 (DQA*05/DQB1*02...

Thanks, Cara. My doc wants to avoid having me suffer as much as possible, so she wanted to try the initial antibody tests, knowing that they would probably come out negative. I guess I'll know to question the genetic test results when they come... I'm sure you can all understand my unwillingness to gluten myself!

Thanks psawyer... I know that the genetic test won't diagnose, but I guess I was curious as to why it isn't done first to find out whether it's even possible I have it before I put myself through the awfulness of eating gluten again. It's helpful to know it isn't conclusive, though.

Hi there, I'm in the midst of getting diagnosed, mainly to find out whether I have celiac or non-celiac gluten intolerance. I went off gluten to see if it would improve my symptoms, not realizing I would have to be on it in order to do testing. My PCP didn't want me to suffer by going back on for the blood work, so I did the first round of blood tests...

Hi, I'm brand new here! I'm going through the testing process to find out whether I have celiac or not, but if it's not that, I have a non-celiac gluten intolerance. I went off gluten a little over a month ago as an experiment to ease my migraines, and it worked. The problem is, I've had a massive cold sore on my lip since almost the same time....