Weird (possible?) Gluten Symptom

[glutenfreeinchicago]

Hi, I'm experiencing, among other things, a weird symptom that I believe is related to gluten. I'm experiencing a lot of pressure in my ear canal, in the sides of my head, behind my eyes, and in my forehead. This is accompanied by a minor background headache, a sort of intense gaze (it's difficult for me to relax my gaze -- I kind of freak some people out on the street, even), and a sort of "buzzing" in my head (vs. the calm, quiet, open, peaceful spacious feeling I have in my head when I'm healthy). The best way I can say it, in short, is that I have a lot of pressure and 'energy' collected up in my head that I can't let go of.

Has anybody else experienced similar symptoms with gluten or food intolerances in general? I'm also suspecting that it could be dairy or eggs. I'm especially suspecting eggs since I ate a bunch this weekend and am having strong symptoms now, but it seems like a weird symptom to be caused by eggs.

When this happens, I also get a nervousness in my body, sort of deep down inside, that I can't shake. I've always been an extremely relaxed person, and can tell that these symptoms are coming from something that I am consuming.

Any insight or leads would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

John

PS This forum has been immensely helpful as I've struggled through the self-diagnosis and first weeks of (attempting) to be gluten free.

[RollingAlong]

Because of the neurological aspects of your experience, have you considered posting your query on Neurotalk?

Open Original Shared Link is the celiac forum

Another source of info on less common reactions to food is Plant Poisons and Rotten Stuff. It is actually a network of websites- a blog, wiki and forum that I think you might find very useful.

Open Original Shared Link

Particularly since you are self-diagnosing (do you have any tests that implicate gluten?), a trial of the failsafe diet could be a good investment of your time.

Good luck!

[glutenfreeinchicago]

RollingAlong,

Thanks for the response. The Neurotalk site looks interesting -- I'll definitely check it out some more.

Yes, my symptoms are exclusively brain fog, fatigue, depression, sever anxiety, and one that I forgot to mention blurry vision. I'm pretty convinced that they are gluten related as once I went hardcore gluten free 5-weeks ago, my symptoms slowly but surely (day-by-day) improved. Even my vision began to get sharper and sharper. At the 3 1/2 week point, even though I still was not 100%, I felt like I glutened myself somehow, as all the symptoms came back with a vengeance. Since then, over the last week and a half, I've once again begun to feel better little by little.

The only things I did out of the ordinary, to possibly gluten myself, was eat a LOT of eggs (I've otherwise been avoiding eggs) and I inadvertantly got some bodywash (at the gym) in my mouth. I'm suspecting it was the bodywash that's the culprit. I don't have an ingredients list because it came out of the dispensor at the gym.

I'm also wondering if some of the pressure in my ear canals and behind my eyes is possibly 'just' seasonal allergies. I do have itchy eyes as well. If it is fall allergies, I've never had them like this before.

Again, thanks for the reply. If being gluten free combined with a good fall frost does not resolve everything, I'll also look into the failsafe diet.

For other readers, I'm still curious if anyone has any similar pattern to their symptoms and/or if anyone can provide insight into why these symptoms would occur.

Thanks so much!

John