colonscopy result

my colonscopy was normal. the doc told me that i am postive for the celiac gene blood test that he had ordered earlier.  i am suppose to have a small bowell follow thru next week, does anyone know if that test will show the damage to the small intestine with celiac disease? i thought that in order to see that you would have to have the test where they go down the throat?  i would post on celiac site but hardly anyone on that site.. thanks..

Celiac needs to be diagnosed by biopsy of the duodenum or jejunum, I forget - this is done by endoscopy. An upper GI barium series is something you'd do to look for narrowing due to Crohn's disease. A colonscopy cannot see into the small bowel so this is a way to examine the small bowel via imaging. I don't think Celiac would cause the kind of damage you'd be able to detect via x-ray, but I'm not an expert.

Generally, when you go see a GI with bowel complaints, there is a suite of tests that are done. SBFT is one of the tests typically in that suite.

jenny, it is wonderful to hear that there weren't any signs of ulcers.