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- cristiana replied to cristiana's topic in Related Issues & Disorders2Healthy diet leading to terrible bloating
@trents - THANK YOU, that is a really helpful and interesting post. I have had fairly extreme symptoms. Being a veteran hypochondriac I've been imagining all sorts and what you say makes me think I've probably been up to my usual catastrophizing! That said, I foresee another colonoscopy appointment if things don't settle down soon., and if I have... -
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Welcome to the celiac.com community, @hjayne19! Because of the damage done to the villous lining of the small bowel by celiac disease's inflammatory process, absorption of nutrients from our diet is generally compromised and over time it is typical for those with celiac disease to develop nutritional deficiencies. Your low ferritin is evidence of that... -
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Healthy diet leading to terrible bloating
Making significant changes in our diets, even when it is in, what would we are told by the experts, a healthy direction, can be upsetting to our system until it adjusts. To make an analogy, it's like beginning an exercise regiment when we don't ease into it gradually. That's one thing that occurs to me as a response. And I think as we get up in years this...- 1
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- hjayne19 posted a topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease1Insomnia help
Hi! I am a recently diagnosed celiac and my first post here. hoping for some help. I initially didn’t have any gastric symptoms before diagnosis. Mostly night sweats almost every night and bad insomnia. Sometimes 1-3 hours before falling asleep but mostly waking at 4 am and not able to fall asleep. I felt like a zombie. I have also had low Ferratin f...
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@trents - THANK YOU, that is a really helpful and interesting post. I have had fairly extreme symptoms. Being a veteran hypochondriac I've been imagining all sorts and what you say makes me think I've probably been up to my usual catastrophizing! That said, I foresee another colonoscopy appointment if things don't settle down soon., and if I have got diverticulosis I guess that is how they will find out. I've just checked some statistics and I had no idea until I googled the condition that such a large percentage of the UK population has diverticulosis, i.e. 50 per cent by the age of 50, and that diverticulitis itself - i.e. inflammation of the diverticular - affects 5-25 per cent of the population. Oddly enough I knew a young woman with it and she told me years ago that it felt like there was a baby's foot wedged into her stomach at times, just like when she was expecting a baby, and this is exactly how it feels to me at times (although I realise as a man you will not be familiar with this sensation!) I also do have an umbilical hernia which I think plays me up. On your other earlier points - I have read elsewhere that sudden intake of fibre can cause a lot of discomfort. It reminds me of the time I swapped a chocolate bar with a muesli bar with apricots in an effort to be healthy, and there was a stone in it which broke my tooth! No pain no gain I suppose! And re: new intolerances, that too is very likely. I will start keeping a food diary and my husband has today bought me some peppermint tea, hopefully that might help disperse some of the bloating! Thank you.
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Welcome to the celiac.com community, @hjayne19! Because of the damage done to the villous lining of the small bowel by celiac disease's inflammatory process, absorption of nutrients from our diet is generally compromised and over time it is typical for those with celiac disease to develop nutritional deficiencies. Your low ferritin is evidence of that. We generally advise those who have been newly diagnosed to invest in some high quality and high potency gluten-free vitamin and mineral supplements to address this. We're talking about more than a multivitamin. We usually advise B-complex, D3 (5-10k IU daily), zinc, and magnesium glycinate. In particular, magnesium can be helpful for sleep issues and the glycinate form is important as it is assimilates much better than a lot of common forms you see on supermarket shelves which are formulated more for shelf-life than the are for assimilation. Has your ferritin rebounded yet? You may also need an iron supplement if you aren't on one already. Do you have Costco stores near you? Costco's Kirkland Signature brand and Nature Made brand of vitamins and supplements are good quality, economical choices and will be labeled gluten-free on the packaging if they are.
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Making significant changes in our diets, even when it is in, what would we are told by the experts, a healthy direction, can be upsetting to our system until it adjusts. To make an analogy, it's like beginning an exercise regiment when we don't ease into it gradually. That's one thing that occurs to me as a response. And I think as we get up in years this becomes more and more true. We become less adaptable to change. The other thing that occurs to me is that you may have added in things, that though they are nutritionally dense, may be things that you as an individual may have some degree of intolerance to. You mention nuts and citrus. Those are packed with nutrition but also high in histamines. And citrus is not only high in histamines but is also a histamine liberator. I know from personal experience there are some things I can eat occasionally, in limited amounts and I'm okay. But if I eat them too often or consume large servings they will give me an upset tummy or a migraine attack or both. And you might also look at the possibility that you have developed diverticular disease. Nuts and seeds are a no no for that I understand.
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Hi! I am a recently diagnosed celiac and my first post here. hoping for some help. I initially didn’t have any gastric symptoms before diagnosis. Mostly night sweats almost every night and bad insomnia. Sometimes 1-3 hours before falling asleep but mostly waking at 4 am and not able to fall asleep. I felt like a zombie. I have also had low Ferratin for years. Sleeping got a little better I also realized I wasn’t eating enough carbs after working with a dietician. it’s been 3 months gluten free. I definitely am on the more sensitive side I would say. I get really bad panic/doom anxiety which was bad before diagnosis and has since improved but comes in waves. Now my insomnia has been bad again and looking for some advice. I try to keep a strict routine morning and night. But can’t seem to turn my brain off even though I’m exhausted. Anyone else going through something similar?
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Hello fellow coeliacs and a Happy New Year I'd appreciate some advice. In December I gave up junk food and ate a new healthy diet, which had a lot of gluten-free oats, nuts, oranges in it, and a quite a lot of black coffee, rather than my usual lattes etc. After a week or so I felt awful bubbling and bloating in the area which I would say is the ascending and transverse colon. Earlier in the day it might start with stabbing pain, maybe just two or three 'stabs', or a bit of an ache in my pelvis area, and then by the evening replaced with this awful bloated feeling. I can still fit into all my clothes, there isn't any visible bloating but a feeling of bloating builds from early afternoon onwards. The pain and bloating has always gone by the morning. BMs normal. I went back to my normal diet over Christmas, for a couple of days things improved, but the bubbling and bloating then came back with a vengeance. I'm having an ultrasound in a couple of weeks to check my pelvic area and if that is clear I suspect may have to have a colonoscopy, but is there anything anyone can recommend to calm this bloating down. I have been given an additional diagnosis of IBS in the past but it has never been this severe. I have to confess that I might have had some gluten over Christmas, I ate a lot of Belgium chocolates which were meant to be gluten free but the small print reveals that they were made in a shared facility, so I have probably brought this all on myself!
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