To make a short question long (feel free to skip this part): I have known for many years that bread, pasta and other wheat-based products make me unwell. I have gradualy come to have a diet that doesen't include many of these foods, but without beein totaly glutenfree. About 6-7 years ago I did the bloodtest for celiac that you can do at home, it came back negative. A year later i tryed it again, and it was still negative. I continued having problems with gluten, and mentiond this for my doctor at the time, who said that if the tests I'd taken at home were negative, there was no point in any more testing, as they tested for the same thing at the doctors office. So I figured it was just an intolerance or something, and stayed away from most gluten.
Then, this spring, I went to have an allergy test done. I askd the doctor about symptoms of whete allergy, even thou I knew my symptoms were not allergysymptoms, just in case. By now I have mooved, and as my regulare doctor was not available one of the others doctores at the office was doing the test, and she said she wanted to test me for celiac, even thou I said I'd taken the home test twise.
I then got the testresults by mail, with a lether from the doc that had taken them saying that it was mostly normal, apart from DGP-IgG, wich was slightly elevated, but not enough to be considerd positive, and that this was most likely unsignificant.
I then called my regular doc and told him this and the fact that I have been eating very little gluten for several years, so he wantet me to do a gluten challange for a month and then have a new test. After two weeks I was not able to do it anymore (working alot, beeing a stundent with exames coming up, children to look after...) and did the new test. It came back even a little more elevated, just enough to be considerd positive. So doc sendt me off for biopsy at the hospital. I'm having it done early september, with strickt orders to 'eat normaly' untill then. As I'm trying to do that I notice more and more symptoms i never related to gluten getting worse, I'm realy ill now, pretty much the whole list of symptoms
So my question is; with only DGP-IgG elevated, and only slightly but getting worse after gluten challange, and the fact that gluten makes me realy sick, much more so than I have ever been aware of, could it still be somthing other than celiac causing it? It could always be NCGI, but that would not explain the elevated IgG, would it?
Guess I'm afraid they won't pick it up on the bio, and people are gonne think I'm just imagine things. Feels like it already, caus I never made a big point out if staying away from gluten, and I'm not the type to complain about headaces or jointpain, stomaceaces, nauchia and 'little' things like that, so my family feels taht this is just out of the bue..
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