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I Hate Getting Glutened At Night

Nantzie

By Nantzie
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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I don't know what did it this time. Probably cross contamination. My husband made dinner tonight (yum!), but I'm pretty sure he had contaminated hands before he started because when I went out to the garage I noticed a McD's bag in his car. He has a long commute... I was suspecting I got glutened earlier, especially after seeing the McD's bag, but until I tried to go to bed and get some sleep, I wasn't sure. Sure enough, racing thoughts, buzzing brain, obsessing about relatively minor occurances. Like, one time I accidentally discovered that didn't have the money to leave a tip and didn't apologize. I've been obsessing/beating myself up about that for over an hour. Before that it was that my daughter (who had a fever today) is going to miss school next week, but I have doctor appts, so what am I going to do and who can I find to babysit. On Monday. Four days from now. When she'll logically be over whatever random virus she has right now. :rolleyes:

I'm SOOOOOO glad this doesn't happen every night anymore. And it used to. I don't know how I got through that for all those years. To think that I used to think that that was ME... Knowing now that it's the gluten that does that... It just really creeps me out.

Gluten is messed up. And why does it have to stick to everything???

Nancy

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Wow! You really sound like you get the neurological thing going bad! I had chronic,life-long depression before I went gluten-free. Thank God for psychotrophic drugs(in my case Prozac) until I figured out what was wrong!

I use catmint(sedative)/meditation/self-help books with positive reinforcement and hope for the best. My syptoms are more physical but I do tend to get uptight/obsessive about stuff too if I don't watch it and remind myself it's a symptom of a reaction. Also, I noticed that regular exercize helps me with everything including getting sick/glutened and managing my symptoms. You might also want to see if there is something your Dr. can do for you on these occassions. Sounds very intense.PJ

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Wow! You really sound like you get the neurological thing going bad! I had chronic,life-long depression before I went gluten-free. Thank God for psychotrophic drugs(in my case Prozac) until I figured out what was wrong!

I use catmint(sedative)/meditation/self-help books with positive reinforcement and hope for the best. My syptoms are more physical but I do tend to get uptight/obsessive about stuff too if I don't watch it and remind myself it's a symptom of a reaction. Also, I noticed that regular exercize helps me with everything including getting sick/glutened and managing my symptoms. You might also want to see if there is something your Dr. can do for you on these occassions. Sounds very intense.PJ

Not sure if your response is directed at me or Nantzie, if me - I am getting better- honestly even my longsuffering boys have said so.

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When I have been glutened I get a restless night. I used to stress out about everything when I was a teenager trying to sleep. But that has improved a lot over the years. I was a worrier, I still am.

But now being gluten free for 8 months, I have a very disturbed sleep, when glutened, tossing and turning. The other morning I wrote in my food diary "Dark shades in my sleep" Idon't think that meant I had my sunnies on! I had a cough that night too, I don't know if that is related, as I seem to get a bit congested in the nose as well when I have gluten, and at times when I don't. The telling thing for me, is that I will trip over my speech the next day. Forever say the wrong word for what I mean, but tripping over words is quite exasperating.

Cathy

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