Symptoms

[Ddowda74]

I was recently told to remove gluten from my diet completely. Did anyone else experience nausea, heartburn, or dizziness in the beginning of being gluten free? Thanks in advance. 

[Tracy414]

  On 9/17/2022 at 2:17 PM, Ddowda74 said:

I was recently told to remove gluten from my diet completely. Did anyone else experience nausea, heartburn, or dizziness in the beginning of being gluten free? Thanks in advance. 

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I experienced nausea, headache, increased hunger and generally feeling unwell for a few days after stopping gluten. There seems to be a withdrawal phase for some, which actually tells me a whole lot about gluten. Probably wheat more specifically. It’s bizarre to me, I don’t have withdrawal symptoms when I don’t eat apples for a few days. Wheat is in everything! I’ve learned quite a bit from this site. Those feelings did pass in a few days. I generally eat whole, fresh foods, now and continue to see progress in how I feel. I don’t have celiac (per my labs), but likely NCGS (lots of symptoms) and feel so much better after eliminating gluten from my diet! I hope you start feeling better soon! 
Here is a quick read with references (kind of old, but still valid IMO

https://www.beyondceliac.org/q-and-a/feeling-withdrawal-from-gluten/

[Ddowda74]

  On 9/18/2022 at 11:14 AM, Tracy414 said:

I experienced nausea, headache, increased hunger and generally feeling unwell for a few days after stopping gluten. There seems to be a withdrawal phase for some, which actually tells me a whole lot about gluten. Probably wheat more specifically. It’s bizarre to me, I don’t have withdrawal symptoms when I don’t eat apples for a few days. Wheat is in everything! I’ve learned quite a bit from this site. Those feelings did pass in a few days. I generally eat whole, fresh foods, now and continue to see progress in how I feel. I don’t have celiac (per my labs), but likely NCGS (lots of symptoms) and feel so much better after eliminating gluten from my diet! I hope you start feeling better soon! 
Here is a quick read with references (kind of old, but still valid IMO

https://www.beyondceliac.org/q-and-a/feeling-withdrawal-from-gluten/

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Thank you so much! I cut it a week ago, so I really hope it goes away soon!!!  I really appreciate your response on it because all of the weird little symptoms scare me sometimes. 

[Tracy414]

  On 9/18/2022 at 5:23 PM, Ddowda74 said:

Thank you so much! I cut it a week ago, so I really hope it goes away soon!!!  I really appreciate your response on it because all of the weird little symptoms scare me sometimes. 

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I agree! I knew for months something was not right, but never would have thought it was gluten. Did an elimination diet and things got so much better!! Started to reintroduce to rule out celiac and once back on gluten, symptoms came back and some worse. I started having tingling in my fingers/toes.