<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Dear Listmembers, I would very much like the opinion of some people and if there are any doctors on this list what they think. I have suffered seven years with severe symptoms. When I found the Celiac information it read like my medical chart. I have severe digestive problems I cannot eat anything. I was diagnosed with rapid gastric emptying (10 minute interval dumping vs. normal of over an hour), I had 0 gall bladder contractibility and it took 3 years to get that taken out. I am weak, and dysfunctional most of the time. The pain in stomach radiates into my back so much that I cannot sleep all night, the pain under my ribs feels like I have had numerous knife wounds under them and I cant breath for the pain. This started with the death of my sister and the pregnancy of my 4th child. Now I went off of wheat on Sept 11, but before that I had a diet since June or so that I was almost completely wheat free as I could eat almost nothing. I survived on oatmeal and steamed well cook vegetables. During the summer August 10th my birthday, I had surgery to open up my bile ducts, pancreatic and common. They had shut down by the spasm, this is what causes the pain in my back and under my ribs. I felt better after the surgery once I got over a bout with pancreatitis. I started to feel better and work out everyday but as always then I start getting hungry and since I am feeling normal again I eat "real-food" and get sick again. I then went to Austria for 10 days with my husband, low and behold I got sicker everyday eating normal food, I brought oat meal with me but just could not find a way to cook it at the hotel and started eating bread and coffee. By the time we came home I was deathly ill again. But while we were there my husband was lecturing at an alternative medicine conference and the physicians there led me to start thinking I had celiac disease. Lewis (my husband a doctor) had done one test for wheat/gluten and I had not tested positive so he had not followed up on celiac. Well, I went off of wheat and dairy religiously when I got back from Europe. I went through what seemed like a withdrawal period, the pain in my back and under my ribs was not bothering me but I felts severe cramping and other pain that I can only describe as what someone might feel as withdrawal symptoms. Once they were gone I felt great for the first time in 7 years I was pain free. Right about that time I did the blood tests and they were negative to gluten sensitivity. I spent a week feeling great then set up to have a biopsy done. One week before the biopsy I went back on wheat, I ate a wheat bagel with tofu spread, I became violently ill with the pain like broken glass under my ribs so bad I could not lay down and sleep all night and that was "with" pain medication. It took me 36 hours to stop the pain and 42 to feel back to normal again. I decided not to go back on wheat for the biopsy. It came back negative. So what can I do now.? I wanted to try to locate that test that was posted on this list, called the "transgluten tissue test" (I think?) but I cannot remember the right name or find out more about it. Any suggestions, about the test and whether folks think that I am Celiac? I have been feeling very well and pain free and my energy is amazing, my husband says he has not seen me like this in 7 years. I had a bad experience with the biopsy as I had the flu and was quite run down and the doctor found yeast in my esophagus, which traveled into my stomach/intestines and I got a terrible yeast infection. I ended up taking meds to stop the Yeast infection but suffered terrible pain and bloating, but once I got over that I have been fine, healthy even!!! . I will keep off of wheat, gluten, dairy ( I tested highly allergic to dairy by Elisa test). But it sure would be nice to have a diagnosis. thanks for anyone's opinions or help happy holidays morgaine mehl madrona vermont