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Do You Always Have The Same Symptoms When Glutened?

angel42

By angel42
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angel42 Enthusiast
angel42
Posted

Hi,

I was just curious. I always experience extreme gi symptoms and brain fog when glutened. I went to dinner two days ago and had terrible brain fog after and all day yesterday but no gi symptoms. I am not sure that it was gluten since I had no gi symptoms but I really feel like the brain fog was the same. Can I have still been glutened even without the gi symptoms? Are everyone's symptoms of glutening always the same? Let me know!

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luvs2eat Collaborator
luvs2eat
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Mine are always the same... WICKED GI symptoms... I tell my husband it's wolverines trying to scratch their way out!!

Don't have brain fog... thank goodness!! Just GI repercussions.

angel42 Enthusiast
angel42
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Maybe I am just sleep deprived. My husband and I actually refer to gluten as "poison" cuz that is how I feel when I eat gluten, like I have been poisoned.

chocolatelover Contributor
chocolatelover
Posted

Hmmm...I get it all--GI stuff, mouth sores, brain fog, lack of energy, depression, nasty irritability. I think my husband wanted to divorce me last time I got glutened! :lol:

annie-is-GF Newbie
annie-is-GF
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I was diagnosed not too long ago... a few weeks... and I have been glutened a couple of times since cutting gluten out. My symptoms have been really random - the first time I went from being cheery and happy to being incredibly irritable and groggy in about 15 minutes, with a distended abdomen... the next day I developed a migraine which lasted for 2 days.

This past week I was glutened again at a restaurant (stupid lack of nutritional information!) and I didn't get groggy or irate... just had mild GI symptoms. At least I THINK it was gluten... but maybe it was the ice cream I had :)

It's still very early in the game for me but I have already noticed different reactions to gluten!

gfp Enthusiast
gfp
Posted

I find it tends to vary....

Sometimes a small amount and the GI symptoms are minor but brain fog isn't... then other times if I drop some immoium early I can get less brain fog and who knows...

I also find that for instance a long gradual glutening (such as eating a CC'd item for a week or drinking vodka) are different..

The slow but long term very small amounts tend to hit more randomly on GI but more on neuro... I start loosing feeling in my right pinky... so even the type of glutening seems to affect the subtle parts of it.

Kyalesyin Apprentice
Kyalesyin
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My wife finds that it seems to vary depending on ammount. The sleepwalking toast got her a lot worse than the time I got crumbs in the butter. Brainfog and skin breakouts are her two though, no matter what else she gets, she gets those.

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aikiducky Apprentice
aikiducky
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I don't necessarily get bad GI symptoms at all, but brain fog is a guaranteed one if I get glutened. GI symptoms seem to vary a bit depending on amount, time of month, and what else I have eaten at the same time.

Pauliina

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NorthernElf
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My symptoms are somewhat variable.

Always - brain fog, irritability, tiredness, sinus congestion & pain that means major headaches, acid reflux, bloating

Sometimes - the intestinal issues, nausea, joint pain

I had some ice cream last night that definitely had no wheat/gluten ingredients but my sinuses did flare up & I felt really tired - I'm thinking there might have been some cross contamination so I won't eat anymore of it. I didn't have a very good sleep last night.

So...I guess you could say if I have mild exposure (cross contamination), my symptoms are a bit different. If I eat something that has gluten in it in that I didn't realize, my symptoms are more severe AND longer lasting. I *shudder* to think what my symptoms would be if I actually ate bread or something !

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