Questions

[tigger61]

Hi Everybody,

I am sitting here feeling kind of strange and hoping someone can help with this...I am having some trouble with my stomach in the upper area of the left side abs, it feels like something is trying to pass thru the area and can't. Has anybody else ever had this happen to them before and what can you do about it? I have only been gluten free since Jan 06 for the most part it has been pretty good but I also have IBS to make things ever more fun...I am not sure if I should try to eat something to maybe help or will that make it worse?

Also has anyone lost weight? I am down 23lbs so far and by DH is getting worried about the weight lose,he has been great throughout all of the problems that I have had trying to cope with everything but one thing he does is he is always saying your not eating enough and I eat what I can. I am very lucky to have him and my son they also have gone gluten free with me to help. I'm sorry I am just carrying on.

Any suggestions would be of a great help.

Thank-You,

Tigger61

[BRUMI1968]

Hi. I don't know what to say about the stomach problems...my stomach problems usually are more like feeling green, or feeling like my stomach is full of air...I don't relate right away to your description.

The weight loss thing, on the other hand, is something I'm struggling with. Okay, it's fun to a point, but when is it going to stop? I'm 5 foot 8-1/2 and was weighing about 130 pounds, which is about 10 pounds less than I weighed when I ate wheat two years ago. Now I weigh 125. What's freaky is that I lose about 1/8-1/4 pound every day for a few days...so I've become obsessed about weighing myself every morning. The days I don't poop (they still happen now and again), I stay the same. But if I poop, I lose the weight.

So I started trying to see how much I was eating. Yesterday I felt like I ate a lot, but it was all low cal stuff. I don't eat grains, dairy, beans, soy, or sugar...so basically I eat some meats (new after 15 years of veggie-ism), veggies, some fruits (low on glycemic index - trying to fight off yeast), nuts and seeds, oil, and eggs. It's hard to get a lot of calories this way. I feel awesome most of the time - full of energy like never before - but I just bought a size 26 pair of jeans. I'm 37 years old - size 26 is CRAZY!!!! Well, at least for me. (Admittedly, it was fun jeans shopping for the first time since high school.)

I am going to have to sit down and do some math and try to come up with some ways to manage this. Especially since I want to start exercising more and I don't dare lose more weight if I do that. Maybe when I start exercising, my appetite will get better (it's fine now) and it'll work itself out.

Good luck with your tummy. I know my tummy is loads better w/o the gluten, but we all have to work out the kinks as we go along I guess.

[dionnek]

yes, I have these pains (feels like someone is stabbing a knife in my left side) all the time. I've only been gluten-free for 2 months now, and they had gone away initially but today they came back. Don't know if it is a symptom of being "glutened" or not, since I still don't feel "normal" yet and don't know when I am accidentaly glutened. I've mentioned this to my dr(s) (I have gone through 9 dr's to finally get diagnosed with celiac) and none of them seem concerned, so I just live with it. Sorry this doesn't help - I had read on here that some people have gall bladder pains, which sounds similar, but that is on the right side, and my pains are always on the left.

[lorka150]

tigger - from the day of diagnosis i went gluten-free. for about 4.5 months, one product slipped into my diet daily (i didn't know), and i lost about 45lbs. I was extremely tiny, and in the hospital - two doctors had told me I was going to die. I was on the toilet about seventeen times a day. No exaggeration.

One day, i checked a food and realized there it was - sneaky little devil! I removed it immediately, gained 10lbs in two weeks (and kept going up), and realized my mistake. Please check your products.