Originally Posted by cotonpal

The blood tests for celiac are notoriously insensitive. Also you don't have to have celiac to be sensitive to gluten. Non-celiac gluten sensitivity is a real condition and many of us have it. https://celiac.org/celiac-disease/u...-sensitivity-2/ Because of my severe gastro-intestinal problems that left me housebound (along with a host of other stuff like arthritis and depression) I had testing done through Enterolab which uses stool testing for antibodies to various foods rather than blood testing. It is much more sensitive but unrecognized by most conventional doctors. I came back sensitive to gluten (along with dairy, soy and eggs). I cut all those out and my symptoms went away. I now can leave the house without worry. That's proof enough for me that I need to avoid these foods, which I do, scrupulously. I never want to go back to being sick and unable to leave my house.

Jean