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blood test for h. pylori came back negative 2 x

Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 8:11 am
by pinay2
i have been diagnosed with H. pylori two weeks ago by my GI doctor 2 weeks ago, she did an endoscopy and found H. pylori but before that i have been going to 2 different internal medicine doctor and they both tested me for H pylori thru blood test and it both came back negative so my question was how's that possible?

Re: blood test for h. pylori came back negative 2 x

Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:14 pm
by Helico_expert
interesting. so how did your GI doctor diagnose H. pylori? histology or CLOtest?

the blood result from your internal medicine doctor, did they send the blood to proper pathology lab? what is your IgA and IgG value?

Re: blood test for h. pylori came back negative 2 x

Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 11:32 pm
by pinay2
Helico_expert wrote:interesting. so how did your GI doctor diagnose H. pylori? histology or CLOtest?

the blood result from your internal medicine doctor, did they send the blood to proper pathology lab? what is your IgA and IgG value?

Re: blood test for h. pylori came back negative 2 x

Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 11:40 pm
by pinay2
i was having pain on my lower rib cage, severe nausea, fatigue, weakness, bloating,burping,loss of appetite, weight loss, pain in the upper abdomen in between rib cage and gurgling sounds inside my stomach. 4/18 i was given amoxicillin for cough and went back to the same doctor told them i was having abdominal pain nausea, pain in my rib cage and was put on Macrobid and that was on 5/16 for uti she saud but uti test came back negative and told me that it's just a antibiotic it won't hurt me. and on 5/31 i went back there again with all the same symptoms and ordered a blood test for H. pylori and came back negative and she then put me on Macrobid agian and told me to take nexium so i went to different doctor a week later for second opinion and he did a blood test for H. pylori and it came back negative. so i was refer to GI doctor and Endoscopy was done and told me that i have H. pylori. i am now on my 8 days of treatment using Pylera and Pantoprazole. i was wondering do i really have pylori? does my endoscopy result accurate? the GI doctor told me that my intestine lining is good just need to treat the bug.

this was the result..no number showing:Ordered Date: 05/31/2013 by my internal doctor.


Assessments: Abdominal pain, epigastric


Lab: H.PYLORI AB (IGM)

Name Value Reference Range


H. PYLORI AB IGM Negative

Result:


Received Date: 06/10/2013

Re: blood test for h. pylori came back negative 2 x

Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 5:52 am
by Helico_expert
IgM is usually tested if you just got infected with pathogen.
IgG should be tested in your case.

I would trust your endoscopy result more. So, do you have histology report from endoscopy?

Re: blood test for h. pylori came back negative 2 x

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:54 pm
by pinay2
GI Doctor used camera to see and they did a biopsy.

igM .80
igG 5.6

that's what the doctor told me. Hopefully this help. The medecine that i was taking made me cry, the side effect was so horrible... I'm just glad that today is my last day of treatment and hoping that i got rid of the bug. i really don't want to take any more antibiotic.

Re: blood test for h. pylori came back negative 2 x

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:50 pm
by Helico_expert
i am not familiar with the IgG measurement. Did you ask your doctor what is the cut off for IgG to determine if you are positive?

antibiotic side effects are very common. Try to think positively and dont think about the side effect. It usually worse when you keep thinking about it.

Try to finish your treatment to avoid antibiotic resistance.