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Omg I Am Two Different People!

JerryK

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JerryK Community Regular
JerryK
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I am indeed two different people:

On gluten I hurt all over, I am depressed, lethargic and anxious. I have trouble concentrating and my stomach hurts. I'm irritable and miserable.

Off of gluten...I don't hurt anymore. I feel more energetic and dare I say it...happy AND my IQ shoots up 20 points.

This will sound absurd to anyone who hasn't actually experienced it for themselves, but it is true..

Mr Gluten and Mr Notglutened

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jerseyangel Proficient
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Yep--I know just what you're talking about. I'm the same way. ;)

JerryK Community Regular
JerryK
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Yep--I know just what you're talking about. I'm the same way. ;)

At this point...lots of curse words come to my mind when I think about how badly this has affected my life.

I was given anti-depressants which gave me side effects, including serious anxiety...

Then they added a tranquilizer called Klonopin to the mix, to treat this SSRI induced anxiety.

I should mention that Klonopin has a well known side effect of CAUSING depression (um duh).

Then when I still complained I felt bad, they proceeded to give multiple trials of a bunch of

different anti-depressants..none of which did anything except perhaps make me feel more

agitated. Finally I came to the conclusion that the drugs were part of the problem and I

flushed them down the toilet. Only problem was, I was dependent upon these drugs that were

make me feeling bad(interesting paradox I know) and I couldn't sleep. After 5 days of not

sleeping, I finally checked myself in to the hospital...where they gave me Ativan so I could sleep, had me do finger-painting and other therapeutic stuff like that....

So to make a long story short, I take some time off of work, come within a camel

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bluejeangirl
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I am indeed two different people:

On gluten I hurt all over, I am depressed, lethargic and anxious. I have trouble concentrating and my stomach hurts. I'm irritable and miserable.

Off of gluten...I don't hurt anymore. I feel more energetic and dare I say it...happy AND my IQ shoots up 20 points.

This will sound absurd to anyone who hasn't actually experienced it for themselves, but it is true..

Mr Gluten and Mr Notglutened

My story is similar to yours. My first cavity was very early I'm guessing 5, which just progressed to fillings in every tooth. Feeling groggy can't understand teachers. Always had a stomach ache. I was always considered bossy growing up I thought it was because I was the oldest of 6 kids but really thinking about it I was just irritable all the time. I was always the thinnest smallest person in class. I never had the classic diarrhea which always threw me. I'm so glad I found that not everyone does get that. I feel so much better........I wish I found out earlier. I'm so glad you found out! You don't need to go another day feeling like that again. The only thing you'll have to now overcome is cross contaminations which we all figure out eventually. You'll be posting asking questions about it. :P Usually following a "I can't figure out why..."

Gail

Nancym Enthusiast
Nancym
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Now you know why so many of us are so frustrated with medicine/health and all the issues surrounding gluten. Now imagine getting a negative diagnosis... but you KNOW how much better you feel off the stuff. Yet the medical establishment will put you in a padded cell if you insist you are gluten sensitive. :D

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Off of gluten...I don't hurt anymore. I feel more energetic and dare I say it...happy AND my IQ shoots up 20 points.

My son has this game for Nintendo DS called "Brain Age". Just before or right after I started the gluten-free diet, my "brain age" was 80 :o But now it's right at my real age. :D I worked in a school prior to going gluten-free and the director called me a "slow processor"(not diparagingly).

JerryK Community Regular
JerryK
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Yet the medical establishment will put you in a padded cell if you insist you are gluten sensitive. :D

Been there already:) and now I know why.....fingerpainting was nice, other than that I don't think it was of any value :blink:

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blueeyedmanda Community Regular
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The story of my like..

When I get gluten I get this whole other side of me, I could care less about anything and anyone. I am very tired, moody, and emotional. I worked in a lab and the few months I was real sick before I found out I had celiac I just flat out didnt care, it showed in my work ethic and how I treated my coworkers.

Once I got on the diet and everything fell into place I got all my energy back and I was the happy-go-lucky person that I was when they hired me. I started volunteering for overtime because the turnover at this place is horrible. I was helpful and I didn't jump at people on the phone.

Looking back I was a real jerk...pardon the words!

I get glutened every now and again, as we all do and I get moody but not to the point where my attitude gets that bad. You can see a difference but not the extreme change I had then. I pity the people who worked around me at that time, I was probably very mean to them.

I still work there overtime, even though I no longer work in that department. So there are days when I are there 16 hrs.

tiffjake Enthusiast
tiffjake
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Oh man, I totally know what you are saying! I was on antidepressants for YEARS (Lexapro, Celexa, Prozac, Zoloft, even Lithium at one point) and those would make me anxious, so they would put me on more meds (Ativan, Xanax, etc) but I always felt like crap! All the time!

After going gluten free, I feel amazing! No more meds here!!

I also used to be on Reglan, Nexium, AND Aciphex for indegestion and GERD. I took ALL 3! No more GERD!!!!

And about moods, man....I was glutened last week, and I totally flipped out on someone parked in my spot at my apartment complex. Later, when my head cleared, I wrote him an apology note. I don't know what comes over me when I get like that. It is like watching another person! But it only happens when I get glutened, like my body is too busy getting rid of the gluten to be a decent human being!

Canadian Karen Community Regular
Canadian Karen
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LOL! I describe myself more like "The Incredible Hulk" I can feel the rage building up in me and then exploding.

I have thrown bikes across the garage, books flying across rooms, you name it, gluten has done it to me.......

Karen

ianm Apprentice
ianm
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If you had known me before I became gluten free and did not see me until today you would not recognize me at all. I have a completely different body, mind and attitude now.

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