Acting Generally Crazy After Getting Glutenized?

[rbeeka]

Does anyone else have symptoms of just general craziness after getting glutenized?? I ate something with gluten last night, and then for about two hours was just mean and irritable and just acting out of my head. And then the sharp stomach pains started up - always a joy. Does this happen to anyone else? I'm starting to think I'm going crazy for acting so crazy!!

I'm new to the board, I've looked on it many times but finally decided to join and post something of my own. You guys are great and have helped me a lot since getting diagnosed!

[blueeyedmanda]

I do act very mean and I have the general I don't care attitude when I do get gluten. It is the complete opposite of the person I really am. I don't know if I act generally crazy but I am sure I probably do things I normally would not do but don't notice it since I am so out of my personality.

Welcome to the Board!

[sansglutengrl]

Hi rbeeka,

Welcome! It's great that you decided to start posting!

From what I've seen, it's very common to have neurological issues when you get glutened - some people actually have those symptoms primarily. I get really anxious and upset and then very very sad - some people get angry, depressed, anxious, etc. For some of us, that's how we can tell the difference between gluten reactions and just plain old regular stomach issues.

Hope you're feeling a little better!

-sanglutengrl

[Rusla]

Welcome to the site.

Here you will find some of the best information, recipes, and support. This bunch made the transition for me easy. Yes, lately for some strange reason I have been craving Boston Pizza's pizza bread which I haven't craved since I went gluten-free.

Being without the evil gluten is not so bad because there is still tons of things we can eat and create that taste a whole lot better than some horrible gluten-filled item.

somehow this ended up in the wrong thing I have no idea how that happened. But as for crazy after gluten. Well, for me it is hard to tell because I was crazy for so long maybe it is still residual effects.

[DarkIvy]

For years I've had symptoms of depression and issues with anxiety and irritability. Last year it got so bad I ended up having to withdraw from a semester at college and come home. Interestingly, I always felt like it somehow wasn't me. I wasn't sure what WAS me, because I'd been unhappy for so long, and I could never really put my finger on what was wrong. I just knew that something, indeed, was wrong and making me feel horrible.

I tried going gluten free for three weeks and those symptoms were gone within a matter of days. By the end of the three weeks, my dad was telling me how much nicer I was and easier to get along with I was.

When I started eating gluten again for the testing I need to have done, that all went downhill. I was on the phone with my boyfriend every night crying about this or that and was irritable with everyone for everything. I was anxious, freaking out about the most random things, felt helpless... the whole nine yards. After I got the bloodwork done, my parents insisted that I go gluten free again for a few days before resuming because I just don't think they could stand to put up with it anymore. Guess what? I'm feeling much better again.

I have a lot of other physical symptoms that come along with eating gluten, but the neurological seem to be some of the most dramatic. It's a night and day difference for me, you're definitely not alone.

[aikiducky]

Rusla, that was funny.

I can get very emotional when I've been glutened, either throwing a temper tantrum or getting really depressed. So for me the answer would be yes. I don't actually even get very bad intestinal symptoms, but I'm very careful not to get glutened because it messes with my head so badly.

Pauliina

[Annie/NM]

I've been gluten-free for 6 months now and feeling really stressed lately. So I fell off the wagon on Friday and had a cheeseburger and a few other little cheats. Well Sunday, I slept for 5 (not kidding) hours during the day and still slept all night long. I had a migrane and was clamy but no fever. I've been exhausted on Monday and Tuesday and all I want to do is sleep. It is really hard to wake up in the am. Do you think this is just being glutened or a bug? I've never cheated before and I didn't have any gastro symptoms. If it is being glutened I won't be doing that again. I feel aweful!

[Guhlia]

I've been gluten-free for 6 months now and feeling really stressed lately. So I fell off the wagon on Friday and had a cheeseburger and a few other little cheats. Well Sunday, I slept for 5 (not kidding) hours during the day and still slept all night long. I had a migrane and was clamy but no fever. I've been exhausted on Monday and Tuesday and all I want to do is sleep. It is really hard to wake up in the am. Do you think this is just being glutened or a bug? I've never cheated before and I didn't have any gastro symptoms. If it is being glutened I won't be doing that again. I feel aweful!

Sounds to me like a glutening. I get extremely tired when I'm glutened.

[Rusla]

I am so careful about glutening and still it happens and mainly at work. No matter how much I clean everything sometimes there are minute crumbs that I missed or can't see and they get on my hands and then in my mouth. I so hate it and then when I start craving things filled with gluten after being gluten-free for nearly two years that bothers me. Of course there is always the nightmares of people holding me down and stuffing bread and cake into my mouth.

I also get extremely tired when glutened, to the point that if I have to drive I almost pass out at the wheel, I start shaking, sweating and heading for ole yonder toilet. Being glutened is not pleasant with pain etc. Thinking of the pain I would be in is enough to convince me that cheating with pizza bread would create the "Bloated tired leper-faced Miss Hyde."

[Ellsabeta]

Does anyone else have symptoms of just general craziness after getting glutenized?? I ate something with gluten last night, and then for about two hours was just mean and irritable and just acting out of my head. And then the sharp stomach pains started up - always a joy. Does this happen to anyone else? I'm starting to think I'm going crazy for acting so crazy!!

I'm new to the board, I've looked on it many times but finally decided to join and post something of my own. You guys are great and have helped me a lot since getting diagnosed!

Ohhhhh, how I can relate. You're not alone rbeeka!

This weekend, for instance, I went out to eat with my boyfriend and definately had some CC issues in my food -- not shortly after eating it was like I was stoned (not to mention the extreme stomach pain and D). For example, my boyfriend asked me to get him something out of the fridge -- I responded with "Where is it?" I was also acting pretty combative and emotional; not the type of behavior you would want when you rarely get to see your boyfriend (long-distance, military relationship).

Anyway, I do not have celiac disease. I am gluten sensitive and the gluten intolerant genes that I possess are known to have neurological reactions to gluten. Hence, my crazy antics.

[little d]

Hello all

OOPS Sorry this is my first time to use the quote thing and I don't have an actual mouse on my laptop, I miss using a mouse with this stupid laptop See its coming out now!!

Ok yes I get the same, some emotional and gastro symptoms I think that the emotional outweights the gastro symptoms.

For years I've had symptoms of depression and issues with anxiety and irritability. Last year it got so bad I ended up having to withdraw from a semester at college and come home. Interestingly, I always felt like it somehow wasn't me. I wasn't sure what WAS me, because I'd been unhappy for so long, and I could never really put my finger on what was wrong. I just knew that something, indeed, was wrong and making me feel horrible.

I tried going gluten free for three weeks and those symptoms were gone within a matter of days. By the end of the three weeks, my dad was telling me how much nicer I was and easier to get along with I was.

When I started eating gluten again for the testing I need to have done, that all went downhill. I was on the phone with my boyfriend every night crying about this or that and was irritable with everyone for everything. I was anxious, freaking out about the most random things, felt helpless... the whole nine yards. After I got the bloodwork done, my parents insisted that I go gluten free again for a few days before resuming because I just don't think they could stand to put up with it anymore. Guess what? I'm feeling much better again.

I have a lot of other physical symptoms that come along with eating gluten, but the neurological seem to be some of the most dramatic. It's a night and day difference for me, you're definitely not alone.

I am so careful about glutening and still it happens and mainly at work. No matter how much I clean everything sometimes there are minute crumbs that I missed or can't see and they get on my hands and then in my mouth. I so hate it and then when I start craving things filled with gluten after being gluten-free for nearly two years that bothers me. Of course there is always the nightmares of people holding me down and stuffing bread and cake into my mouth.

I also get extremely tired when glutened, to the point that if I have to drive I almost pass out at the wheel, I start shaking, sweating and heading for ole yonder toilet. Being glutened is not pleasant with pain etc. Thinking of the pain I would be in is enough to convince me that cheating with pizza bread would create the "Bloated tired leper-faced Miss Hyde."

[Cindylouwho]

I am so careful about glutening and still it happens and mainly at work. No matter how much I clean everything sometimes there are minute crumbs that I missed or can't see and they get on my hands and then in my mouth. I so hate it and then when I start craving things filled with gluten after being gluten-free for nearly two years that bothers me. Of course there is always the nightmares of people holding me down and stuffing bread and cake into my mouth.

I also get extremely tired when glutened, to the point that if I have to drive I almost pass out at the wheel, I start shaking, sweating and heading for ole yonder toilet. Being glutened is not pleasant with pain etc. Thinking of the pain I would be in is enough to convince me that cheating with pizza bread would create the "Bloated tired leper-faced Miss Hyde."

[Cindylouwho]

Welcome to the site.

Here you will find some of the best information, recipes, and support. This bunch made the transition for me easy. Yes, lately for some strange reason I have been craving Boston Pizza's pizza bread which I haven't craved since I went gluten-free.

Being without the evil gluten is not so bad because there is still tons of things we can eat and create that taste a whole lot better than some horrible gluten-filled item.

somehow this ended up in the wrong thing I have no idea how that happened. But as for crazy after gluten. Well, for me it is hard to tell because I was crazy for so long maybe it is still residual effects.

Ok, I am new to this site. Trying to reply to this post (hi, Rusla) do I type below it?

This one will be a test.

[rbeeka]

Thank you all sooo much!! I keep sending my boyfriend here to make sure he knows it's not just me and I'm not really this mean person! Ugh its just so awful - it's like, I know I'm acting horrible and I can't stop it, and then I feel MORE horrible because I'm making everyone around me cringe. Makes me want to jump out of my skin.

But seriously, you guys are so great, thank you so much for the advice/support! (Sorry it took me so long to respond - the board keeps not letting me log in and telling me I don't have permission to reply and other such nonsense )

[Juniper]

It's taken me a while to realize that my mood is affected by gluten. General tiredness and irritability occur, along with other symptoms. I did well at first going gluten-free, but I now realize I've made several mistakes, glutening myself without knowing. I realized it last week, and I'm trying to get back on track, but I'm so tired and pretty grumpy.