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Read up on NCGS and go gluten-free. It can take up to a year or so to see vitamin level changes, but you should start to feel better within a few weeks. In the meantime, use supplements.View Thread

It can take a number of weeks to find out if gluten is a problem. You should probably figure about 4 weeks, minimum, but you will see small difference in the meantime if you do have a gluten issue.
You can get tested via the use of Enterolab.com if you care to. The fecal IgA-gliadin test was one that finally gave us the answer to my husband's problem when the other tests failed. You could also do the gene test which will tell you whether or not you're carrying the genes for either celiac disease - which is gene-linked with a number of other autoimmune issues including forms of IBD and other diseases - and gluten sensitivity.
It's not going to hurt you to go GF, although if you go to a doc and want to do the blood test or a biopsy you'll have to go back on gluten - a lot of it and for probably several months - to get a diagnosis that way. But many individuals are more than willing to forego ever eating gluten again for any reason if they find that an exclusion diet gives them an answer.View Thread

In many cases tTg is not seen to be elevated even when IgA gliadin is elevated.
Your results would make me suspicious if I saw this result in someone I suspected of gluten problems.
In general, the blood test 'suck' unless someone has had gluten issues for a long, long time.View Thread




If all they're doing is deciding if you have gluten issues via a biopsy, don't stop there, please. That biopsy is not the 'do all and end all' of diagnosis. Double-check and triple check since it's suggested that celiac and forms of IBD are gene linked.View Thread

How was your baby tested for celiac disease? How were you tested for it?View Thread

You can do an IgA/IgG gliadin blood test, which may or may not pop positive if she is positive. But it's also possible to come up with a false negative. Please keep that in mind. The definitive one in most docs minds is the biopsy, but in some cases that can also come back as negative when someone is actually positive for gluten issues, unfortunately.
Ask the doc to do genetic testing for gluten issues even if they're going to do other tests. If he/she won't do it, go to enterolab.com and order the genetic test. It's not prohibitively expensive and it's worth it to find out if someone is carrying either celiac or gluten-sensitive genes. Far too many people go for years before true diagnosis is made and that's sad.
Make sure to check to see if any gluten issues run in either side of the family, which could make finding out if gluten is the issue a lot easier.View Thread

But what I'm wondering is if your brother has been gene tested because celiac disease and Crohn's are gene-linked. In some cases even if the disease hasn't shown itself yet (genes haven't expressed themselves), it will at some point in the future and for those with an IBD and a 'gluten-gene' hanging over their heads, a gluten-free diet can help.View Thread
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