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Well, I finally got a doctor to agree to do the blood test and now I'm
worried about getting a "false negative".  I keep reading that I will need to
be on a gluten diet for a month to get good results.  Unfortunately, I have
been following the GF diet for 20 days, with 2 relapses (1 was intentional 12
days ago and the other from stupididty -soy sauce - 10 days ago) I am
wondering what the blood test will show?  Also, and I'm sure this sounds
crazy, but I found some canned gluten in the Chinese grocery (it's some kind
of speciality) and I was wondering if I were to eat a few cans of this on
Saturday/Sunday if I would have the IG-response by Monday (to assure a good
test) Or maybe I could eat a few dozen donuts!

The problem for me is that I had about 50% letup in symptoms after following
the diet -- not enough to say, 'oh yeah, gluten was definitely the problem'
and yet too much to abondon the idea completely.  Of course if I come up
negative then I'm up for the entire GI-hell (upper GI, barium, sigmoidoscopy,
etc.  etc.  etc.)  and I've already been told that gas, although "annoying"
and "socially embarassing" is not a "real" problem.  In other words, they'll
be happy to torture me, but don't hold out for an actual diagnosis (much less
a cure!)

Well, any advice on the speed of gluten-response, or blood-test stories will
be much appreciated.

Thanks! lynn
[log in to unmask]  Hollywood, FL

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