130 Days Without Cc... Reset

[EmiPark210]

I got glutened this weekend. I went home for Thanksgiving, and while my parents are amazingly supportive and helpful, something still slipped through. I didn't recognize that it was gluten until the gut sick started yesterday. I thought I was just tired/dehydrated/stressed and all that. I remember from the last couple times I got traces or those couple times I ate something with wheat (oops) it was all over in 3-4 days. But its been 5 and I'm still having trouble eating because all food and food smells are making me nauseous and my gut is still a balloon. This, of course, is not helpful to recovering back to normal but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. 

 

This has also been the longest stretch I've gone without any CC issues since I had my endoscopy in April so is it possible my reaction is just getting worse because its been so long?

[cyclinglady]

This is just me, but I only had anemia when I was diagnosed.  Now, if I get accidentally glutened, I definitely get sick with tummy issues, body aches, fatigue and crazy itching on my arm, but no rash!  Takes me about a week to feel good.  Others here can be affected longer.  My husband seems to recover in just a day or two, but he's been gluten-free for 12 years and his intestinal tract is probably 100% healed.

 

I eat simple comfort foods and take L-glutamine and probiotics to speed healing.  Not sure if it works, but my brain thinks so and that's what counts!  

[cap6]

It really varies from person to person.  Some people find that their symptoms get worse as they heal, others find symptom all but disappear.  I am goinf on 4 years and have had a combo of both.  For the first 18 mo or so my symptoms were far worse if glutened.   Now I find that if glutened the symptoms have almost all but disappeared which means I must be all the more careful not to get anything.  But then the last time I was glutened was almost a year ago so.....  everyone is so different.

[notme]

i like to think this way:  i feel pretty good almost every day, now that i am healing.  when i was still consuming gluten, i felt BAD every day, but it came on so gradually that i didn't notice it (just a little worse, tired-er, headache was constant, etc, and of course the big D).  and that was the effects of the gluten reaction (plus gut damage)  so, now, when i get gluten, i feel that same bad-ness, only it comes on all at once, in a matter of days, not gradually.  it's the same, just more evident because you're going from feeling pretty *fine*    to feeling like crap pretty fast as a reaction to gluten.  because, i get all the same symptoms that have gone away (except when i get glutened) - no new symptoms - just all at once like getting hit by a truck - POW!!    if that makes any sense, lolz, it's just my theory.  <also, pretty evident that i, indeed, have been glutened - it's not the flu, it's not food poisoning, it's gluten........    go directly to bed, do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollas 

 

i take extra probiotics, take long hot showers, drink lots of water, blah, blah, blah <just makes me feel like i'm being proactive.  it still takes 14 days to run it's course.   i hope you feel better.