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[guzwoman]

Oh reading this makes me feel so much better. I am new to Celiac. My allergist and doctor believe that I have it despite not being tested because I have enough symptoms. After being just shy of two weeks gluten-free, my 11 year old daughter commented that she has noticed that I don't yell at her as much as I used to and seem less distracted. I personally have noticed that my focus is better and I am less depressed, which is amazing because I am always a little sad, anxious and agitated. It is especially impressive because I own a business and it is going through the holiday slump, plus I am overwhelmed by the fact that I can't eat gluten and even more difficult I have a spice allergy and I am Mexican. Nature has a cruel-cruel sense of humor. I think the most difficult part for me is knowing that gluten has made me such a difficult person all of these years and knowing that, at times, I was so not nice to my daughter and people I love.

I am excited though to have psychological balance and hopefully one day soon get off my ADHD medication.

Here's to looking towards less angry days and less unintended hurt feelings.

~mg

[medaevalmom]

WOW. That inital post, and many after could have been written by me.

i love the title Post-Wheat-Syndrome! just last night at a dinner we (hubby) and i were describing my experience with gluten as similar to PMS form hell that lasts for days, even a couple weeks at a time, before improving.

Funny thing... same thing happens to him when he eats tomatoes during ragweed season

I can`t help you much except to say, isn`t it great knowing we are not alone. I esp. like the fact that after reading some of these i don`t feel like a nut-job anymore. If so many people experience the same thing... it cannot possibly be just in my head can it?

[GFinDC]

I also had mental symptoms from gluten in the past. The title of this thread pretty much describes my symptoms, depression, anger and quick temper. At times I would become angry and not even know why. I was easily frustrated also. I had bad memory problems also, and would forget things very quickly. Sometimes when I was working on the computer if I switched from one app to another I would forget what I was planning to do in the 2nd app. And have to switch back to the first app to remind myself. So forgetting things within a second or two. That was scary stuff. Now what was I saying? Oh yeah! But things got much better after being gluten-free for a while. My memory improved, my anger went away, my depression also flew the coop. It took a while for those changes to happen, but they did happen.

[1desperateladysaved]

If I get a food I am intolerant of I sometimes get really sad even though I have good circumstances. Now, when that happens, I figure I just have to hold on for a couple of days and will begin to feel better again.