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Sick Or Glutening?


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OK - sorry to go graphic - but I had some severe D tonight. (ick!)

I could have been glutened at the lunch table today at work. It was excpetionally crumby and filthy today. I cleaned and cleared a spot and washed hands and was very careful, but you never know......

Still, and I may sound crazy here, it didn't feel like a glutening....It felt like different D. Does that make sense? I don't know if I am imagining things, making things up, or just plain crazy, but it seemed different than any I've gotten from being glutened.

I have a slight fever, so I'm guessing my hunch is correct, but I'm just curious......

Basically, my question is - how do you tell if you've been glutened or if you have a bug... or are you winging it too?


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OK - sorry to go graphic - but I had some severe D tonight. (ick!)

I could have been glutened at the lunch table today at work. It was excpetionally crumby and filthy today. I cleaned and cleared a spot and washed hands and was very careful, but you never know......

Still, and I may sound crazy here, it didn't feel like a glutening....It felt like different D. Does that make sense? I don't know if I am imagining things, making things up, or just plain crazy, but it seemed different than any I've gotten from being glutened.

I have a slight fever, so I'm guessing my hunch is correct, but I'm just curious......

Basically, my question is - how do you tell if you've been glutened or if you have a bug... or are you winging it too?

Hi again! I moved this to 'Coping With'--hope this is where you wanted it. Anyway, it sounds like you may have caught a virus. I always get stomach rumbling, cramping and D about 2 hours after I've gotten some gluten. That's how I know that it's gluten and not something else. Everyone is different, but I think most people have some sort of sign that happens when they've been glutened. It takes a bit of time to get familiar with all of it. Hope you feel better soon :)

ebrbetty Rising Star

sounds like a virus to me too, my aunt was in the ER last night for terrible D and stomach pain, they said there is a bad virus going around

feel better soon

Carriefaith Enthusiast

Do you only get D when you have gluten? Maybe there are other symptoms that would help ou detect gluten. For example, I can tell becasue I can get brain fog, dizziness, a rash/hives, and heart problems.

Rusla Enthusiast

I was fine earlier at work, I have had no gluten today for sure. However, as three people were off today with a virus, I know that is what I have. It too was not the same as glutening. I would say you and I both have a virus now.

If I have been glutened I know within 5 minutes. I have spent most of the day in the bathroom and it is not the cramps of gluten. If it doesn't feel like a glutening, chances are it is not.

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