Symptoms after gluten exposure

[eah4me]

Hi!

its been a while since I’ve been on here but I was diagnosed celiac in January of this year. I’ve been gluten free ever since. It took about 6 weeks before all my symptoms went away and I’ve been feeling awesome ever since!  My follow up appointment got cancelled because of COVID but I’ve just stayed off gluten and assumed I’m fine. 😜 

 

last week I accidentally ate gluten. Totally my fault. Made two separate desserts for my family. One had gluten. While serving it I stupidly just popped a piece in my mouth and ate it like an idiot!  Ugh. Anyways. I felt fine at first, but over the next few days started having issues like I remember from before I stopped eating gluten. Weird nausea, tons of bloating and gas pain, toilet issues. It’s been 7 days and today I’m finally getting better. But still not great. Is this a normal response to eating gluten?  It was one bite. I’m just surprised it’s lasting so long. Wondering if I’m just psyching myself out??  Thanks!!

[cyclinglady]

It is a pretty normal response in my opinion.  Remember, celiac disease is not an allergy.  Gluten, in celiac disease, triggers an autoimmune flare up/response.   (It is not about how long gluten remains in the digestive tract.).  How long your body decides to stop attacking  your small intestine lasts depends on you.   Think of lupus or Rheumatoid Arthritis.  No one knows what triggers flare ups for these and any other autoimmune disorder.  Celiacs at least can avoid flare ups.  We are lucky, sort of.....😂

Edited July 11, 2020 by cyclinglady

[eah4me]

43 minutes ago, cyclinglady said:

It is a pretty normal response in my opinion.  Remember, celiac disease is not an allergy.  Gluten, in celiac disease, triggers an autoimmune flare up/response.   (It is not about how long gluten remains in the digestive tract.).  How long your body decides to stop attacking  your small intestine lasts depends on you.   Think of lupus or Rheumatoid Arthritis.  No one knows what triggers flare ups for these and any other autoimmune disorder.  Celiacs at least can avoid flare ups.  We are lucky, sort of.....😂

Thank you!  That makes me feel better. And that totally makes sense too. It’s weird I feel like I can feel my intestines being all inflamed and angry!!  With all the COVID drama I just started worrying maybe I couldn’t chalk my symptoms up to gluten. 😜