<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Yesterday I had a biopsy. I found it an unpleasant procedure, not helped in the least by my tense and defensive nature. The doctor says my intestine appears normal, and from the picture she gave me I'd have to agree. I didn't see any of the scalloping or dry river bed type cracks. We still await the histology report. Having extremely positive bloodwork for CD and an apparently negative biopsy is very unnerving. And so far as trying to get a doctor to change the way he does a procedure, I've yet to meet one who has taken kindly to a patient telling him how to do his job. I guess I need to have my skin biopsied and see if this rash really is dermatitis herpetiformis. I would appreciate anything anyone could tell me to make the relationship between CD and DH clearer to me. My doc says you can have DH and not CD, I didn't know that. I have a biopsy set for the 16th for my eleven-year-old son who is IgA deficient, has ADD and has had abdominal pain and headaches forever,and had an IgG reading of 40. I had told myself that this was enough evidence to justify suspicion and since he was IgA deficient a biopsy was the only way to know if he had CD. Now I feel he could have the biopsy, get a false negative and be worse off than before. I'm struggling with the idea of canceling the biopsy for him. I'm beginning to think it's not worth dealing with if you don't have proven malabsorption. I'm so discouraged.