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Lately I have been wondering a lot about celiac and wheat allergies. Its seems like if I eat anymore bread products other then my 2 peices of toast in the morning I dont feel good. Ive tried different brands of bread, bagels, english muffins,etc. and it seems like they always cause problems along with saltine crackers, grahm crackers and many cereals. Honey, this is your body telling you something. I have had the celiac blood test done and it came back as negative. Although one of the levels was extremely high and one was about normal so the doc said that maybe I could be carrying the antibodies for it but not actually have it. If that makes any sense! I makes perfect sense. You may not have CD, but if the Gliadin antibodies are high you are gluten intolerant. Anyways is there anymore tests I could get to test this sort of thing? A GI may want you to have the endoscope test to test for flattened villi, but other than that you already have your answer about gluten intolerance because the blood tests are extremely sensitive and a false positive is RARE. Remember to always get copies of all your blood test results. How do they test for food allergies? Usually with an IgG ELISA test that can test over 100 different foods. I want to set up an appointment with a new GI so I want to ask for specific tests. Thanks! In the meantime the true test is to go gluten free to see how you feel. Go to any of the Celiac message boards for tips. You may be surprised to know that 70% of CD patients were first diagnosed with IBS. IBS does not kill, but CD does if gone to long undiagnosed. Kandee

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