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Stomach ache since going gluten-free?


EmilyJ93

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EmilyJ93 Apprentice

Hi everyone,

I started my gluten free diet a month ago after receiving an official celiac diagnosis. I haven’t really felt any different since going gluten-free, although I didn’t seem to have digestive symptoms like stomach aches when I WAS consuming gluten.  

Anyways, last night I had a terrible stomach ache and can’t figure out why. Everything that I ate yesterday was prepackaged or prepared in my home, and I haven’t had any issues with eating these items since going gluten free. The only thing I can think of is that yesterday I dumped out some packaged oats and pasta that I had in my pantry that I no longer use because of celiac. I coughed a bit after dumping these out, but didn’t think anything of it at the time. 

I just think it’s all strange since digestive symptoms haven’t seemed to be a part of my celiac disease so far. Any thoughts? Maybe it’s just a stress stomach ache, but seems weird. 


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Scott Adams Grand Master

Celiacs still get bugs and viruses, or eat food that may have bacteria in it, so it certainly could be just some type of bug, rather than gluten. 

You also may have additional intolerance issues, for example if you eat gluten-free oats it turns out about 10% of celiacs also have an oat intolerance, so if you eat oats you may want to stop for a while, and keep a food diary when you ad them back (and perhaps do this with other foods).

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