Going to Gastro today.....

I can only think of a few non-invasive tests:
Abdominal Ultrasound
Stool sample (parasites, blood)
Breath test (bacterial overgrowth)

Blood work:
Anemia
H. Pylori
IBD (this would be through Prometheus Labs)
Lactose Intolerance (Prometheus does this too)
Celias (Prometheus)

Invasive:
Sigmoidoscopy
Colonoscopy
EGD (upper endoscopy)

I may have forgetten a few so I'm sure someone else will be around here shortly.

Good luck! Come back and tell us how it went.

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Upper and lower GI's are barium meals. If they find anything, even the slightest bit off, they'll want to scope you. I would go straight to the scopes. That barium is hard to get down (and keep down). Yuck.
Most doctors have a Prometheus kit.... They take your blood, fill out the Promethues paperwork and mail the kit with your blood to them. Results come in about a week.

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Canyonbabe711,

I thank you for your post, but unfortunately, we all have different conditions that affects us.  If you have read under my posts, that I was born with a rare bleeding disorder that prevents me from clotting, and this causes more complications for myself.  I wish I had it easy like yourself, but unfortunately I don't. 

My gastro doc told me yesterday, that I was not aware of he biopsies everything.  This is even more of a risk for bleeding.  I am having an H2O breath test to see if I am truly lactose intolerant.  The MUO is the only Hospital here where I live, that does this testing.

 

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DX:Glanzmanns Thrombasthenia(bleeding disorder)"GT" Type 1 as an infant, IBS 2004 with no testing done.