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odcdinah

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Hi everyone,

I feel like I'm peppering this board with questions, but I"m new to celiac and don't know how to interpret what is going on with me.

One final health-related question - once beginning the gluten-free diet, is it normal to experience increased urination? It's very strange, I know diabetes should be ruled out, but recent blood sugar tests have been normal.

Just wondering if this is an adjustment of my body to the new diet. Any thoughts? :P

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Hi everyone,

I feel like I'm peppering this board with questions, but I"m new to celiac and don't know how to interpret what is going on with me.

One final health-related question - once beginning the gluten-free diet, is it normal to experience increased urination? It's very strange, I know diabetes should be ruled out, but recent blood sugar tests have been normal.

Just wondering if this is an adjustment of my body to the new diet. Any thoughts? :P

I had to laugh because I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else. (but it certainly may have been) YES! This happened to me. I told my husband that if I was going to have to pee this much, I might just go back to gluten. (A ridiculous thing to say given how sick I'd been) I was spending almost as much time in the bathroom, but for a different reason. I don't remember when that symptom started exactly, fairly early in my gluten-free. BUT, that symptom didn't last, maybe a couple of weeks.

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Nothing would surprise me! I didn't have that particular problem but I gained a whole bunch of other issues I never had before.

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Hi everyone,

I feel like I'm peppering this board with questions, but I"m new to celiac and don't know how to interpret what is going on with me.

One final health-related question - once beginning the gluten-free diet, is it normal to experience increased urination? It's very strange, I know diabetes should be ruled out, but recent blood sugar tests have been normal.

Just wondering if this is an adjustment of my body to the new diet. Any thoughts? :P

Not sure but I think the increase in urination is because the body is trying to get rid of the toxin. I noticed this also and also notice an increase when I am glutened. I know I am at the end of the aftereffects of gluten when I finally sleep through the night without getting up to pee, usually a couple of weeks after I get glutened. While it is going on I try to restrict my fluids after 6 pm but increase them early in the day to try and speed things through.

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All of your questions are not a bother. If you hang around, you will see that we ask tons of the weirdest questions ever!

If one of your symptoms was diarrhea, then your body is now sending the fluids to the kidneys, where it belongs, instead of to your intestines. I was constipated all the time, and now I actually pee less, as fluid is going to my intestines in proper amounts.

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I really hope this is not your final question. We are here to help each other. Check labels, find substitutions, learn new information, and in general just dealing with a gluten free diet.

Yes, I do think there was more frequent urination on the gluten-free diet. Makes since because it was stopping the daily "D" runs for me.

L.

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