Stress

[Danijela]

hello:

I was just wondering if anyone has noticed if this disease at your weak moments has made your tolerance to stress and tension less

Ive noticed throughout my ilness ive become less and less able to handle tough situations my first reaction is to run!

I never use to be like this my family and prior jobs has put me in worse positioins than i'm in now i didn't do a bad job and handleing it (i think anyways) now even little things like my brother and sister arguing put me in a really bad place i can't handle it at all... i can't even handle people raising their voices or even telling me bad/ negative things

even loud bangs and such have a bad effect on me

thanks for listening yet again

[nettiebeads]

hello:

I was just wondering if anyone has noticed if this disease at your weak moments has made your tolerance to stress and tension less

Ive noticed throughout my ilness ive become less and less able to handle tough situations my first reaction is to run!

I never use to be like this my family and prior jobs has put me in worse positioins than i'm in now  i didn't do a bad job and handleing it  (i think anyways) now even little things like my brother and sister arguing put me in a really bad place i can't handle it at all... i can't even handle people raising their voices or even telling me bad/ negative things

even loud bangs and such have a bad effect on me

thanks for listening yet again

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Yes, stress and celiac disease do not go together well at all! Just got over a mild glutening myself this week - and the emotional toll was way worse than the physical this time. It is very common with celiac disease. I felt like I'was the most horrible person in the world, why did I bother living.... What saved me this time was reconizing that I did have a glutening, had been through it before, and just to grit my teeth and hold on until it passed. Which mercifully was rather short. Way back when, when I was first dx'd, I was completely out of control. I do feel bad about the way I acted then, but I honestly didn't know what was happening. I'm now so very gluten-free, the house is practically gluten-free (husband isn't and has to have his bread, but that's about it). Give yourself time. As you heal, the mood swings will pass and you will feel like your real self again. Can't promise you a time line, but it will happen.

[Lisa]

Stress was the catalyst that kicked in my celiac disease reaction. I can pin-point it to the day. I am a public servant to our community and a town official told me that if something "bad" happended, that it would be my responsibility.....so, after that, I spent two months in the bathroom. I would quit today, but two of my board members have cancer and going through chemo and I don't have the justification. They show up, so there go I. Twenty more meetings and I'm out of there.

Stress can seriously alter your life. We all need to find some way to put stress where it can safely be handled, either through excersize, yoga, time out or finding some place alone that we can put things into perspective....then we can go about our day.

Take vitamines, get plenty of rest and know that what you have, you have not created. It happened to you. We all have times of weakness and they happen alot, but understand that you will have to power to do something about it when you get a hold of the world of gluten free. The quality of life that you would like to have is all in your hands. Yeah, so it's the pits. But take a minute and look at your life in the future.......

We have a saying in our home from an old Indiana Jones Movie....."he choose wisely"... I often use this with my girls (adult girls, well sort of).

Hello, well it seems that I just given a pep talk to myself. It was not intended to be but, it sure seems that way. Well...........stress is a very big part of celiac disease. Try not to take it out on others, but realize that it is just the struggle that you are dealing with and try to voice it to those close to you. With hopes that they will understand. Obviously, we have all been there and still there.

Hope this will be helpful and I haven't babbled too much.

Lisa B.

[Mahee34]

Stress actually triggers reactions for me, even if i'm not glutened...I'm a graduate student that just has so much on my plate right now that my stomach hurts on a daily basis....so now i'm going to the doctor this coming week to see what the deal is. Mom said maybe I'm lactose intolerent, which I'm not sure can just come out of no where can it? If i'm that too, someones gonna flip out

anyway, i'm going to talk to the doctor about other things that are tied on to celiac disease and what i can do, i'll let you know how it goes