Tga results came back satisfactory, what does that mean?

Digestive health
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Quick history age 37 recovering from years of eating disorders anerxexia and more recent bulimia, successfully for the last year. I actually started the recovery process at a higher BMI, so ultimately have a BMI of 40.

for the last 6 months I have hadi constant diareah, undigested food in my stools, feeling sick and zero energy. I'm also suffering with huge amounts of oedema around my whole body, which it think I is contributing to the higher BMI?

The GP requested several blood tests, thyroid, crp which was a little raised, I was informed, but ultimately everything fine, but she said the coeliac hadn't come back, but when I phoned up the surgery I was told my Anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody was satisfactory, so I'm confused, does that mean it's negative?

Either way She requested a further coeliac test. I'm just confused with the satisfactory result, I did ask the the receptionist if there was a range with the result,m but she said it just said satisfactory.

any ideas please?

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I don't know! They use very confusing language. Immediately after my endoscopy (which turned out to diagnose coeliac disease), I was told that everything looked normal. At first, I assumed that ruled out CD but what they meant was 'nothing they could see with the endoscopy but the biopsies they had taken would tell me more.' As indeed they did.

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Thanks for replying Rachel,yes it can be confusing!

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Hi Dawn I hope by now you have checked with your doctor and that he has organised an endoscopy to confirm whether coeliac disease or not?

 

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Hi, no the dr doesn't want to investigate futher as the she said that the satisfactory result means I haven't got coeliac disease.

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A blood test is not conclusive as sometimes it comes back as a false negative. You do need to have an endoscopy to make sure. I would suggest you either go to a different doctor and/or request an endoscopy.

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Before having an endoscopy you do need to have been eating gluten for 6 weeks.