JigsawPuzzle

Hi everyone, After some back and forth with doctors, I finally got a lab slip to have some celiac blood tests done. Here is what they have marked on the slip: Antigliadin Ab Antiendomysial Ab Transglutaminase Ab Other: EMA - IgA I know it's missing some from the full celiac panel, but do you think this will give me accurate results or should...

Thank you all for the advice! I am going back to my GI doctor in a few weeks, and I will request that he have my blood tested for all of those levels you mentioned. I just hope he is willing to continue testing, because staying on a gluten-filled diet has been miserable and I worry it is causing damage, but I don't want to go gluten free yet and compromise...

Hi Lisa, Thank you for your response! My doctor didn't order any blood tests for Celiac. What is the full panel of antibody tests that I should have done? I'm not sure how many samples he took, but I do know that they were only from the esophagus, stomach and duodenum (he was also looking for Barrett's esophagus and H. Pylori), and he didn't go far...

I am 22 years old and have spent the majority of my young life in doctors’ offices and hospitals. It started with constant headaches, where I was sent to neurologists and specialists who sent me for scans and tried hundreds of medications, all to no avail. Over the years this process was repeated with arthritis specialists, endocrinologists, gastroenterologists, ...