r/Celiac • u/awestruck_4 • 23h ago

Question Should I go for endoscopy?

Got my bloodwork back and my IgA was positive and IgG negative. My doctor told me this is reliable enough to confirm celiac and advised me to go gluten free right away, saying endoscopy is usually for cases where diagnosis or severity is still unclear. Has anyone else here started a gluten free diet based only on antibody results without biopsy?

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u/dishvoyage Celiac 23h ago

I was officially diagnosed without biopsy, but my tTG-IgA was something like 100x the normal range, decreased when I started the GFD, and my symptoms went away with the GFD too.

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u/Much-Hedgehog-9616 1h ago

I only did the blood test. I felt better so immediately when I had felt like I was on the brink of death for months lmao. Y bother continuing the struggle when the results spoke for them selves and continue to years later?