How long does a coeliacs blood test take to come back?

[WitchingHour2point0]

Exactly that!

I had bloods done on Friday lunch time, including a FBC, B12, folate, and ferritin. Also Coeliac screen (TTG).

All the others are back but not the coeliac screen yet. Is that usual?

[Rollercoaster44]

when i had Ttg done last year it took 3 days - no idea what the norm is though.

[WitchingHour2point0 in reply to Rollercoaster44]

Thank you. 🙂

[Regenallotment Ambassador]

I think mine took a fortnight, zinc and selenium were 3 weeks. Rest was a few days. If they find something they often send on to do some other test too. 🌱

[WitchingHour2point0 in reply to Regenallotment]

Thanks Regen. I was slightly paranoid that perhaps they were holding the result back until Monday when they might have appointments! 😂

I don't think I have coeliacs but I'll be glad to quit gluten again. It doesn't agree with me either way. 🐋

[Regenallotment Ambassador in reply to WitchingHour2point0]

Yeah mine was inconclusive , I’d been gluten free a long time before the doc said I’d like you to eat it again for a few weeks before the test… not long enough really to build up enough Ig antibodies. However I did feel like absolute crap while eating the gluten and gp apologised for putting me through it and said I probs am coeliac or have wheat/gluten allergy, I think it’s lectin related but GP hadn’t heard of that. Hope you get something more concrete, I will never eat gluten again it is absolutely awful, weeks to recover feeling hungover / foggy and terrible pain between my shoulder blades. 🌱

[WitchingHour2point0 in reply to Regenallotment]

I'm not sure what to do about mine; I've been eating gluten with abandon over the past 2 weeks. (Since I saw I was having a coeliacs test done!)

My result was 1.48 (0.7 - 4.0) 23% so I am comfortably within range but I had tests done in 2020 and 2013 which were 0.5 (13%) and 0.6 (4%) so I can't decide if it near enough as low as it was or whether I should keep eating gluten for a few more weeks and test again to see if it goes up again and then I'd know either way.

buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, I feel crappy at the moment. Properly achey when I wake up and my left hip hurts.

[Regenallotment Ambassador in reply to WitchingHour2point0]

It’s a tricky one isn’t it.

I’d like a diagnosis but would have to make myself really unwell to find out if maybe I am or maybe I’m not (more likely) with an allergy or non coeliac intolerance or lectin issue.

So, in discussions with GP we’ve gone with …live as if coeliac and this works for me.

I say I am coeliac in public settings and this is much easier to handle than saying I’m not but can’t have gluten. No one cares either way and no one asks for proof 🙏

[helvella Administrator]

I think this is a test which is not done at all labs. In labs that do perform the test themselves - rather than sending it to an area lab or whatever they do - the time seems to be about 7 days. However, some labs have a protocol of doing additional tests if the first step is positive. Not sure if that adds any time, or not.

[WitchingHour2point0 in reply to helvella]

I got my results today so that was a 6 day turnaround.

[helvella Administrator in reply to WitchingHour2point0]

As expected?

[WitchingHour2point0 in reply to helvella]

I posted up thread to Regen but my result was 1.48 (0.7 - 4.0) 23% so I am comfortably within range but I had tests done in 2020 and 2013 which were 0.5 (13%) and 0.6 (4%) so I can't decide if it near enough as low as it was or whether I should keep eating gluten for a few more weeks and test again to see if it goes up again and then I'd know either way.

[CoeliacMum1]

Yes it’s alway my last test through.

If NHS testing it can be several days to a couple of weeks.

My last one in May via my NHS/GP including weekends was 5days it’s how quick they get them back and your surgery processes them.

I know privately 48hrs is required to culture what ever they do to it, according to my gastroenterologist, so you could get results in 3 days but that was over a decade ago and what gastroenterologist mentioned to me… labs may have got quicker now but not sure… I have had to wait nearly 2wks before via NHS, but may of been around holidays, so busier in every department to record them.

[WitchingHour2point0 in reply to CoeliacMum1]

Thank you I got my results back to day so that was 6 days - didn't stop me checking every day though! 😂