Symptom Free People

[cymrudenver]

I've been - hopefully - gluten-free for 2 weeks along with my daughter, neither of us had any GI symptoms before diagnosis, so my question is - Will we know if we got glutened? How do I know if I am doing this right? I don't feel any different neither does my daughter, but since our tests were so bad I really don't want to get this wrong.

[elye]

Many silent celiacs (those without symptoms before diagnosis) find that they get all of the classic symptoms when accidentally glutened after they've been on the diet for a while. This was the case with me. I was asymptomatic when I was diagnosed....quite amazing that I was diagnosed at all, really....my GP just had a suspicion, as I had low iron and I am type one diabetic. But that was it. After I had been gluten-free for a couple of months, and my lower intestine had had time to heal, I was suddenly getting bloated, diarrhea and cramps from time to time. My body was finally reacting!

I think that this is very common.....so hopefully (I think?) once your insides get to know what it's like to be normal and well, you will react physically to gluten.

[fletchffletch]

My experience was similar to elye's, except I developed the good-old fashioned celiac stomach symptoms within 3 weeks of starting the gluten-free diet. If I remember right, cramping was the first major symptom, but shortly thereafter I was game for all the standards. Hopefully you'll stay symptom free!