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Am I Gluten Intolerant?

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I got extremely sick when I was eating gluten and immedietly went on a gluten free diet. I eventually got a blood test but was negative. I am guessing because I had already been off gluten. After about a year my pain was completely gone and I figured it was all just a dream and I was making it up. Yesterday and today I ate gluten. I have had some stomach pains but nothing unabrable, and gone to the bathroom fairly shortly after I ate but nothing extremely significant. Except for getting a head ache, kinda light headed and tired. I don't remember getting a head ache before, I remember extremely bad stomach pains, diarrhea, and exhuastion. Could it be that I am not gluten intolerant? Or I am just reacting with the headaches, tiredness, and light headedness and not severe stomach pain? I am kind of confused and hopeful.

Any thoughts?

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Some ppl have worse symptoms on day 2 or 3 than the day after a glutening.

I hope it doesn't get really bad, tho it would be solid proof, it seems.

Maybe the symptoms ARE relatively minor for you. But also maybe they'd build if you regularly had gluten.

Isn't the "maybe I'm not gluten intolerant?" question wishful thinking?

There were symptoms, right?

Your first line was "I got extremely sick when I was eating gluten .. ."

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I got extremely sick when I was eating gluten and immedietly went on a gluten free diet. I eventually got a blood test but was negative. I am guessing because I had already been off gluten. After about a year my pain was completely gone and I figured it was all just a dream and I was making it up. Yesterday and today I ate gluten. I have had some stomach pains but nothing unabrable, and gone to the bathroom fairly shortly after I ate but nothing extremely significant. Except for getting a head ache, kinda light headed and tired. I don't remember getting a head ache before, I remember extremely bad stomach pains, diarrhea, and exhuastion. Could it be that I am not gluten intolerant? Or I am just reacting with the headaches, tiredness, and light headedness and not severe stomach pain? I am kind of confused and hopeful.

Any thoughts?

After you heal, your glutening symptoms may become milder but you are still doing damage to your intestines. After repeated exposures you will probably go back to square one again. If you really want to be sure, you will have to eat gluten for a couple of months to MAYBE get a positive blood test. You should listen to your body, the stomach pains and headaches, although bearabe right now are warning you that it didn't like it. A person with no problems with gluten wouldn't have these nice little warnings that your body is giving you. I think this is one of the reasons why if you can (I know its not always possible because of how ill informed most of our doctors are on gluten intolerance and celiac) get a formal diagnoses to begin with then there is never this temptation to cheat. Not putting you down at all, I think its probably human nature to test the theory from time to time when your self diagnosed. Good luck and keep us updated.

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