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Originally Posted by chgomom  ALSO!!
I have celeic disease....the blood tests alone are NOT definitive.
You need to see a GI specialist, and you need to have a biopsy. Sometimes your blood tests are negative in light of having deficiencies, a bone scan that shows you have been compromised in that way. They also for a full picture on celiac should not just run the two main indicators....they should be running a full picture of your autoimmune status (ie inflammation markers such as CRP, Sed rates and etc) , because Celiac disease is itself an auto immune disease of your GI tract.
So ask him for a referral to a GI specialist and let a GI doc investigate it further if you have a concern about celiac.
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She's absolutely right! It is not correct that diagnosing celiac is a simple as a couple of blood tests. I have a friend who just went through this.
She is also correct in suggesting that you run this by your doc and not try to self-diagnose or have someone here do it. This is a matter for a medical professional.