MamaRiz

Thanks for the conversation starter! It's a difficult thing to understand, and I will be doing more research while waiting for more information from the doctor. It's a long process. But thankful I got some answers quickly about the gluten immune response because for sure I wasn't thinking gluten was an issue for me when she did the tests.

Thanks for the response! The only thing I'm wondering is: would I have an immune response if it wasn't celiacs? I can't find a straight answer to that question. My aunt is a dietitian who works in a hospital, and her opinion is if I'm having symptoms and a biopsy is negative then it can't be celiacs because the biopsy is the "gold standard". But...

Thanks so much for your response. I feel like the gastro logic is confusing about the waiting 6 months. I think what he was trying to say if I keep up my same diet they would test to see if the antibodies increased? And if I stopped gluten, I would do a challenge to see if I would still have an antibody reaction? My primary doctor saw that recommendation...

I don't want to go into the whole story, but my doctor put in a bunch of blood tests based on my symptoms, and the only one that came back positive was the below for celiacs. She referred me to the gastro who of course did the biopsy. He took 8 samples, but the biopsy came back as negative. Looking at the forum here, it seems like that's not uncommon. The...