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Hello friends, I was diagnosed with celiacs November of 2016, had a few problems here and there but besides that everything has been smooth sailing up to this point...

This past week whenever I would attempt to eat solid food I would get this unbearable cramping in the upper (mostly left) part of my stomach. The cramping got so bad yesterday when I tried to have a bagel I just hunched over in pain and was unable to sit up right. I live in a pretty small town and there's one gastro doctor in my area; my next appointment with him is on the 23rd. I have tried nutritional drinks and they're also causing pain, thin liquids are my life saver at this point. I've also noticed swollen and painful lymph nodes on my neck :blink: ...

I'm completely baffled and unsure what to do. Any and all advice is SUPER welcomed and appreciated ♥

 

Food is literally making me sick and at this point i'm starting to not care to eat anymore

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My first sign to a gluten exposure used to be my lymph nodes swelling, has not happened in over a year with recent exposures but this disease always changes symptoms it seems.  Have you been sticking very strictly to the gluten free diet avoiding eating out, processed foods or stuff that might be contaminated? You might want to get your antibodies checked again to see if they are going down.

I can relate on the solid food issue, after a gluten exposure I have to spend weeks eating soft mushy foods, like microwaved eggs with extra almond milk mixed in, nut and seed butters blended into smoothies and nut meal porridge, steaming my veggies to mush and blending them into soups or eggs.....gets a bit annoying but I mix it up with extracts and herbs as I find spices irrtate my gut also after a exposure.

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Was it a gluten free bagel? If so, you may have become intolerant to foods in your diet. Have you looked at the low FODMAP diet? I have recently gone on this and it does seem to be helping.

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13 hours ago, flowerqueen said:

Was it a gluten free bagel? If so, you may have become intolerant to foods in your diet. Have you looked at the low FODMAP diet? I have recently gone on this and it does seem to be helping.

Yes, it was the canyon gluten free bagel (which are super yummy btw!) and i've never heard of that diet i gotta check it out :) try to figure out what's going on.

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14 hours ago, Ennis_TX said:

My first sign to a gluten exposure used to be my lymph nodes swelling, has not happened in over a year with recent exposures but this disease always changes symptoms it seems.  Have you been sticking very strictly to the gluten free diet avoiding eating out, processed foods or stuff that might be contaminated? You might want to get your antibodies checked again to see if they are going down.

I can relate on the solid food issue, after a gluten exposure I have to spend weeks eating soft mushy foods, like microwaved eggs with extra almond milk mixed in, nut and seed butters blended into smoothies and nut meal porridge, steaming my veggies to mush and blending them into soups or eggs.....gets a bit annoying but I mix it up with extracts and herbs as I find spices irrtate my gut also after a exposure.

I'm SUPER strict with it haha but maybe somewhere something i ate got contaminated, i made an appointment to get my antibodies checked out :) thank you 

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On 07/03/2018 at 12:41 AM, Squanching said:

Yes, it was the canyon gluten free bagel (which are super yummy btw!) and i've never heard of that diet i gotta check it out :) try to figure out what's going on.

Yes, definitely give low FODMAP diet a go, it can make a real difference. After 2 months you start to re-introduce foods which are not allowed, one at a time, to see if you can tolerate them - it helps weed out the real offenders.

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