QUOTE(DQ1Squared @ Dec 20 2005, 09:05 PM)

Christa—My E-lab results were similar to yours--positive for antigliadin IgA, tTG and casein. My GP recently diagnosed me with celiac disease based primarily on my medical history and diminishing gastro, joint, and other symptoms on the gluten-free diet. I gave him my Enterolab results and he certainly wasn’t rude although he was more interested in specific symptoms along with the marked improvement from the diet. (I had already tested negative for Crohn’s, colitis, etc.) Based on the reports of others in this forum, your mileage will probably vary considerably! If your doctor is rude or dismissive, you might want to find some celiacs in your area and ask them for the names of their doctors.
Also, don’t assume that you absolutely aren’t celiac based on the genes. A small percentage of biopsy diagnosed celiacs have genes other than the main celiac genes.
Best of luck with your doc. If you’ve done enough research to understand your test results, you know more about celiac disease/gluten sensitivity than most of the physicians out there. Please let us know how it goes.
DQ1Squared
I have just got back from my appointment with a newish younger female doctor at my practice. I have given up on my usual GP of 30 years. I explained that while looking for cooking tips for my D I had come across lots and lots of parents of coeliac children on this forum with the exact same pattern of illnesses and progression as me and my sisters, Ibs, fibro, neuro, freezing hands and feet, brain fog, etc so I had spent some time researching gluten and coeliac. She listened to me, read the results from Enterolab accepted my reasoning that as I am off wheat and 95 gluten-free bloods would be false negative like my daughter's. I had printed out some studies regarding genetics, celiac, and gluten-free neuro problems quoted from 'the Lancet' She said it was significant that while on 'Atkins' (essentially gluten-free) I had been 3 stone lighter and healthy with no IBS for a year or so until my decline into the Fibro twilight zone 2 years ago

She is sending me for a bone density scan, (dowagers hump getting worse) thyroid function, glucose, folate, b12. Liver function, FBC and ESR. Interestingly she talked about the 'iceberg' theory regarding coeliac diagnosis (before I had a chance to mention it to her

) and was quite willing to accept that I demonstrated 'gluten sensitivity' (as I have an auto immune reaction to gluten, with a genetic link,) she even wrote that on the clinical details box of the lab test form. ! I was expecting to have to argue my case for testing so was very surprised that she actually knew that most coeliacs stay undiagnosed, coeliacs can be overweight and not have the 'classic' symptoms.
All in all I came away feeling very postive about the whole appointment.