The GI Doctor

I called the GI office that my sister went to. I figured, hey why not.

Turns out GI doctors are extremely busy. They told me he was booked out like 3 months. Fortunately, there was the option of seeing an MA within a couple of weeks.

Everyone wanted to know my symptoms, and what had led me to come there. It felt so silly... "well, I've been super tired so my endo sent for Celiac tests and well... here I am."

The MA looked at my lab results and said that 99% of people with my numbers have the disease, but I'd need an EGD (upper GI endoscopy... or something like that).

At this point, I expressed concern about being sedated because I'm breastfeeding. I wanted to be sure I could go home and nurse my baby. The MA was kind and went out of the room (presumably) to ask the doctor about it. He came back and told me that they would just sedate me without the pain meds, as the sedation was safe, but the pain medication was not. I was cool with that. (I've had 3 babies without pain meds, I can do anything!)

They were also careful to tell me that I needed to continue to eat gluten because the test would not give the right result if I already was eating GF. (I knew this because I had heard it all from my sister who had just gone through this.)

We scheduled my EGD and I headed home, already forming a bucket list of gluten-laden items forming in my head.