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ARCHIVED IgA deficiency with 0.7? Yes or no?
Lizninn replied to Lizninn's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
I thought VA was pretty specific for celiac disease. That's why I thought any further blood tests weren't that important anymore, because I was assuming a biopsy could diagnose celiac disease anyway. I did not know there where that many other causes for VA. So yes, I will ask for the whole Celiac panel now. Thank you! I have some pretty obvious reactions... -
ARCHIVED IgA deficiency with 0.7? Yes or no?
Lizninn replied to Lizninn's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Cyclinglady: do you have an IgA deficiency or was your bloodtest negative despite of that? Were you positive on the other tests or only on the biopsy? I've been through a lot of articles and studies about IgA deficiency and my level of 0.7 g/l - 70 mg/dl should be enough to have a valid test on Celiac. It's very unlikely my tests are false-negative because... -
ARCHIVED IgA deficiency with 0.7? Yes or no?
Lizninn replied to Lizninn's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Thank you for your reply, GFinDC I thought I finally figured out this IgA deficiency thing and that my blood results are indeed invalid. However, I read on Open Original Shared Link that for a Celiac test, only IgA levels under 0.2 makes the blood tests invalid, what means my blood test with an IgA of 0.7 should give an accurate result and not false... -
ARCHIVED IgA deficiency with 0.7? Yes or no?
Lizninn posted a topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Hi everyone, I'm a 27-year old woman living in the Netherlands. I first started seeing my GP in 2009, when my stomach/belly problems got really out of hand and I got extremely tired en depressed (and lots of other strange symtoms). To make a long story short: I had a colonoscopy that showed a mild chronic proctitis (probably not Colitis Ulcerosa...