Fever, Headaches & Intense Hunger

[Guest cassidy]

I got glutened 1 1/2 weeks ago from an Amy's pizza (one leftover from their non-gluten-free facility I guess). I have been getting headaches everyday since then. Not really bad ones, just enough to be there. I used to have these all the time prior to being gluten-free. Now, I usually only get a very bad headache that lasts for 24 hours about a day after being glutened. So I still have the headaches and heartburn. I think it usually takes two weeks after being glutened for me to feel totally normal again.

I have also been starving for the last week or so. I'm talking about waking up in the middle of the night and eating because my stomach is sooo hungry I can't get back to sleep if I don't. I ate a bowl of cereal for breakfast and then made peanut butter toast because I was so hungry that I felt like I hadn't eaten anything. I just stepped on the scale and it said I gained 4 pounds since last Saturday. I've been eating a lot, but not junk food. I am underweight and I haven't gained a pound in months, how could I gain 4 pounds in a week???

Yesterday I had a very bad lower back ache. It lasted for a few hours and was where my hip bones are. my skin felt very sensitive. It was like anything I touched was 10 times more powerful that it would usually feel. It wasn't unpleasant, but it was very weird. I was also very cold. I'm in Florida and I put on a sweatshirt and sweat pants and I still had goose bumps. I decided to take my temperature and it was 100.4. My skin was burning up but I was still cold. Is that what a fever feels like? I can't remember the last time I've had a fever. Why would I have a fever for a day?

So, this morning my temperature is low 97.4 but I feel hot. I still have the headache, but other than that I'm fine. We are trying to get pregnant, but according to my temperature I haven't ovulated yet this month, so I don't think it could be that. Any ideas?

[GFBetsy]

The first time I really got a high fever as an adult, I felt like I was FREEZING! I made my husband get in bed with me, and snuggled up between him and a heating pad under a down comforter, and I was STILL cold. I was just shivering like crazy. Then my DH took my temp, and I was 102 or something like that. So, yes, fevers make you feel very cold.

I'm not sure why you had a fever, except that it could be a virus . . . some of them don't last very long. Just long enough to make you achey and feverish for a day or so. Hope you're feeling better now.

Also, you might have missed the temp clues for ovulation and be pregnant anyway. Which would be a good thing! I know when I was pregnant with my second I was hungry all the time for those first few weeks. I don't think I usually gained that much weight that quickly, though. Although water retention can do strange things to you . . .