I know this was a subject other people had asked Heather about after a recent newsletter, so I thought I'd post what I'd learned.
I'm still eating wheat free 2 years after that blood work and endoscopy. But I went to a new GI, referred by "daliatree". This new GI told me he doesn't even run the tests that my previous GI said pointed to possible wheat intolerance because they are totally unreliable. The tests are called Gliaden AB IgA and Gliaden AB IgG and my numbers had been in the strong positive range.
He went on to show me that in the same lab report was a test for Transglutaminase AB (IgA) which he said is a much more reliable indicator of Celiac. My test for that was well within the negative range. My previous doc didn't point that test out to me at the time!
SO, what does this mean? Not too much since I already knew I didn't have celiac, but it does mean that its time for me to try adding wheat back to my diet and see how it goes. I'd put it off, bc I thought the blood tests showed that my system reacted negatively to wheat. I still may turn out to be wheat "intolerant" but there is no blood test proven to establish that according to this GI.
Dan
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