RobinL

My doctor told me that you need to be on gluten at least once a day for 6 weeks for the blood test to work. I did that, and had similarly inconclusive results... and the doctor said even on gluten for 6 weeks, it could be not enough time to see a reaction (this is just for a blood panel, not an endoscopy). So in my experience, you might not have been...

In 1964, the classic symptom of celiac disease was 'failure to thrive"... meaning you probably lost a lot of weight as a child/had stunted growth. So on the one hand, a blood test or endoscopy was probably not done. On the other hand, if your celiac disease diagnosis was correct, you would absolutely still have it today. It cannot come and go--it is a lifelong...

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Hi there, I just got my blood tests (Total IgA) results back: one sample came back positive, one came back negative. In September, I was off gluten for a month, but not 100% off (cheated maybe once a week, sometimes only with a sip of beer). Then, when I went back on, I wasn't 100% on. Probably not eating gluten every day. So in Jan., I took 8 weeks...