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Anxiety/joint Pain

sunshinen

By sunshinen
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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sunshinen Apprentice
sunshinen
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One of the unexpected benefits of going gluten free has been a huge reduction in anxiety and joint pain, but every now and then I have flare ups. My glutening experiences are not usually associated with severe gastric distress, so it is sometimes hard to know if I have been glutened. For me, the give away is a migraine, but I think there are times where I didn't get enough to trigger a migraine, but still suffer in more subtle ways.

Does anyone else associate anxiety, joint pain, and other non-GI symptoms with being glutened? How long does it take for these symptoms to show up and go away? When you start to feel symptoms, how far back do you question your diet?

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Ursa Major Collaborator
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I get all of those symptoms when glutened. And I sometimes don't get obvious symptoms for up to a week after being glutened.

My symptoms don't usually start showing up until the next day, and can last up to two weeks.

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Yep--I get those reactions, too, when glutened. My joint pain is mostly in my hips and I get anxiety and extreme moodiness.

These begin within a few hours. They last from a few days to about a week.

kabowman Explorer
kabowman
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My knees hurt when I start having food problems. When they start to hurt, I really start checking my diet.

sunshinen Apprentice
sunshinen
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thanks!! everyone sounds so similar to my experiences. the dumb thing is that i went to bed with a migraine, but still wanted confirmation that i'm not crazy and arthritic. i think that's what all those years of misdiagnosis do to you: hard to trust yourself and that there really is an answer.

BamBam Community Regular
BamBam
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Very seldom do I get diarrhea when I am glutened. I usually get extreme anxiety and fears and my joints usually hurt to but not all the time. I am just now going through some kind of gluteneing, and I don't know from what, I think it was my turkey, but anyway, I have severe anxiety/fears and they usually start a day or so after and last about a week.

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bluejeangirl Contributor
bluejeangirl
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yep I'll have digestive problems like gas along with the pains but I don't get D I just feel like it. I got glutened this thanksgiving and my worse symptoms are joint pain especially in my neck because I sit at a lap top which kills my shoulders being that the key board is too high. I also get very depressed which will turn to anxiety if I have to go into public places. So I have to lay low until it goes away and this time its taking about a week. I've been having tummy upsets not because of the gluten but since my appetite is low I've been eating planters peanuts which worsened instead of help getting my system in the right tract.

So I figured that out about 4 days ago and on day 4 of prilosec feeling better in that regard but I then figured out this morning waking up with the neck and shoulder pain that I was in a hypoglycemic response. I could tell because I get so cranky and there's this overwhelming tiredness that won't go away until I eat then the pain and tiredness will slowly go away.

So I'm going to be more aware of eating something before I go to bed that will last me through the night. I don't know why one thing leads to another like that but I think its a matter of learning how your body response to gluten and then being careful if you have other allergies or blood sugar problems.

Gail

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One of the unexpected benefits of going gluten free has been a huge reduction in anxiety and joint pain, but every now and then I have flare ups. My glutening experiences are not usually associated with severe gastric distress, so it is sometimes hard to know if I have been glutened. For me, the give away is a migraine, but I think there are times where I didn't get enough to trigger a migraine, but still suffer in more subtle ways.

Does anyone else associate anxiety, joint pain, and other non-GI symptoms with being glutened? How long does it take for these symptoms to show up and go away? When you start to feel symptoms, how far back do you question your diet?

One of the unexpected benefits of going gluten free has been a huge reduction in anxiety and joint pain, but every now and then I have flare ups. My glutening experiences are not usually associated with severe gastric distress, so it is sometimes hard to know if I have been glutened. For me, the give away is a migraine, but I think there are times where I didn't get enough to trigger a migraine, but still suffer in more subtle ways.

Does anyone else associate anxiety, joint pain, and other non-GI symptoms with being glutened? How long does it take for these symptoms to show up and go away? When you start to feel symptoms, how far back do you question your diet?

I was glad that someone brought this up because before I went Gluten free, I was suffering with memory and mood problems. I had no idea how bad they had been until I didn’t have them anymore. Now, I noticed if I do get some Gluten the memory and mood problems come right back and it takes about 2 days for them to go away.

I also suffer with the body pain, at times it is so bad, combine that with the mood and memory and everyone around me suffers. I just hide and hope for the symptoms to subside. I have a lot of gilt about the way my friends and family have also suffered with this awful problem. I am, most of the time, a very mild mannered person but can really loose my self-control when feeling that bad, snapping at and avoiding people. Thank God I have a forgiving and understanding family and friends.

I also feel that the many doctors I have had over the past 45 years have made me feel like I was stupid, crazy, a drug addict and even a hypochondriac. Finding out that I can’t eat Gluten helped me understand why I had so many problems, now the only problem is that the doctors don’t know enough about it to help much.

I understand how you feel. Thanks for bringing the subject up for discussion.

hineini Enthusiast
hineini
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Yes! I don't see an increase in my joint pain from eating gluten, but I get immediate anxiety. Very intensely.

MrBob Newbie
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One of the unexpected benefits of going gluten free has been a huge reduction in anxiety and joint pain, but every now and then I have flare ups. My glutening experiences are not usually associated with severe gastric distress, so it is sometimes hard to know if I have been glutened. For me, the give away is a migraine, but I think there are times where I didn't get enough to trigger a migraine, but still suffer in more subtle ways.

Does anyone else associate anxiety, joint pain, and other non-GI symptoms with being glutened? How long does it take for these symptoms to show up and go away? When you start to feel symptoms, how far back do you question your diet?

My symptoms appear 5-6 hours after a glutening. My first non-GI symptom is a stiffening or seizing up of my wrists & I get flushed. The joint pain will expand to include fingers & toes, elbows & knees, as well as an increase in my back pain. The pain will last through the next day, and I won't feel like myself for 4-7 days. My right eye usually wakes me up a day or two later, feeling as if someone put a match out in it & rubbed it with sand. It gets very light sensitive, tears excessively, & has even swollen shut.

simmadownnow Newbie
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I had never connected my occasional joint pain in the ankles and knees when I walked but it was quite obvious after Thanksgiving when I went crazy (glutened) and I went walkies the next a.m. I realized that it was connected and by the next day of being gluten free, there was no pain when I walked. I'm slow to learn, I guess but by jove, I think I've got it now!

Y'all have taught me more (reading the boards) than I could ever have learned from the doctors, most of whom just threw antacids at me and patted me on the arm and said, 'you have developed a nervous tic'.

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