There are quite a few of us who have tested positive for gluten antibodies but negative for celiac disease. There are mixed feelings on whether we should or should not be sticking to a GF diet. Some of the people on here eat GF and others, who have found no relief from eating GF, have gone back to it, despite the antibodies.
Doctors have different opinions on this. I've gotten advice from 4 doctors. 2 tell me to eat gluten if I want, one said I must adhere to a GF diet, and one told me to do whatever I felt comfortable with. 
I was on a GF diet for over a year, and felt no better. Just went from D to C...but still pain, spasms, gas, bloat...
I'm afraid to eat wheat though. Because I fear that I have Gluten Intolerance plus IBS and maybe I just can't get the IBS solved and that I should still eat GF, even though I don't feel better on it, while I continue to work on the IBS. But, the doctor I see now wants me to eat gluten again because he thinks there are no absolute answers with these blood tests. One doctor I spoke with on the phone told me she won't even use the blood tests anymore because they don't do anything but confuse people. Well, I'm confused, that's for sure!
You can definitely have both gluten intolerance and IBS. You did say you had less pain with a GF diet...so maybe you are better off sticking with it and accepting the fact that you will still need to watch other foods because of your IBS.
You can't be definitively diagnosed with celiac unless you have an endoscopy...and you can't have one of those without eating gluten again for a while, for the test to be accurate.
What are your thoughts? Have you gotten the opinion of a GI doc? Do you trust your doctors advice to abstain from eating gluten based on blood tests? How are you feeling today?
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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