Well got my results back and I guess this explains alot 🤦🏼‍♀️

[JennaShi]

Sorry for the lighting, if you cant see it it says 96.6 for parietal cell antibody range 0.0 - 24.9

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. Im not sure if this qualifies me as auto immune gastritis but thankfully we have discovered this.

[Gambit62]

positive for IFA means you do have PA (auto-immune gastritis).

Please take a look at the PAS forum

healthunlocked.com/pasoc

[JennaShi in reply to Gambit62]

Hi Gambit, I will take a look however I did not test positive for intrinsic factor antibodies, atleast not yet thankfully. This is for the parietal cells that makes the intrinsic factor. I do test high but my IFA is negative and b12 is in range so it kind of seems like my immune system hasnt destroyed too many of them yet? I am looking into endoscopy.

[Gambit62 in reply to JennaShi]

both IFA and GPCA are problematic tests - GPC gets confused by other metabolites so has a tendency to false positives. IFA is quite insensitive so gives false negatives 40-60% of the time.

[JennaShi in reply to Gambit62]

I can see your point. I think I remember you mentioning this to me before. I do think that since my b12 has gone from a 364 (2017) to 671(2018) i believe it was i think that this is also some sort of proof that the IF are not yet being affected and that b12 supplements are helping.

I will look into GPC test some more as well. I do think i will be looking into an endoscopy because the GPC results were high to get a better understanding of what is going on.

I will most deffinitely be keeping an eye on b12 and will retest in future for IF antibodies. Thank you for your concern, i do appreciate it. I have, since the last time we communicated, started following the PA group and have been reading posts as well.

[JennaShi in reply to Gambit62]

Someone also commented about not taking b12 before b12 test and stopping b12 atleast a week before IF test on the pernicious anemia sight. I still recognize what you said anout how accurate it is but I also realize I couldve better read about it before getting the test.