What A Way To Start The New Year....possible Problem With Mexican Coke

[Eric-C]

No not that kind

I've been cruising along pretty good considering how tough the holidays are.

The Vitamin B and D supplements I started 2 weeks ago got me over the Sami's Pizza dough glutening with fantastic results. Those pills have brought levelness to everyday, no more ups and downs as I go through recovering. The brain fog, improved thought process, memory recall, everything has massively improved.

We're in the middle of starting our own business and those vitamin supplements have been a huge help. Our official "open" day is January 3rd when our advertising goes out. We're doing managed IT services or what I've done in a corporate environment the past 20 years but applying it to the small business person.

Anyways because of this upcoming date we have been even more vigilant in watching what I eat. I could always plod through if I had gluten and the brain fog and anxiety that followed but with the 12-14 hour days we've been putting in I can't take a day off and I have to be clear headed.

So for NYE we stayed in. I picked up a couple of NY strips, home made mashed potatoes, corn, normal stuff we eat every single day at home without problem.

We eat a no sugar added diet which means we eat natural sugars but no high fructose corn syrups or things that list sugar as an additional item, but they can contain sugar naturally like milk and things like that.

Our one break is alcohol. I mix Remi Martin Cognac and Virgil's Cola. If you've never had real Cola before its something to try. Virgil's is gluten free, made with real organic cane sugar, and has no caffeine. Its downfall is the near $2 per bottle price.

Grocery store was out of Virgils so we went to a specialty place in town. They did not carry Virgils but they did have Mexican Coca-Cola. Mexican Coke is made the old way, with real cane sugar and not high fructose corn syrup.

It is a product of Mexico, first off it tastes way better than the HFCS Coke sold here but given my experience tonight its obviously either not gluten free or the plant sits in the middle of a wheat field.

I had people recommend me the Mexican Coke because of its real sugar and I never considered its gluten content.

An hour into the new year and wow...I haven't felt pain like that in over a year. Thankfully the really bad stomach related gluten issues I have never are followed by the other effects.

Not sure why but if I have gluten that comes from flour/wheat I just get stomach pains if its a major ingredient. Only when I get trace amounts or glutens cooked at very high temps do I get the other symptoms. Getting it in large doses gives me a good 2-3 days of stomach trouble and I'm good.

Just a warning to everyone out there, I'm sure this is a rare one but hopefully this will save someone else the trouble.

There is no label on the bottle, just Product of Mexican and the plant of production, Coca Cola of Mexico.

I'll stick with Virgil's from now on

[ang1e0251]

Some soft drinks bottled in other countries use barley malt. Sorry you're feeling bad.

[Eric-C]

Thanks for the info.

Was just a one night deal, feel great the next day.

Another great mystery but I take it as a sign that things are working better. When I used to have this incredibly bad stomach problems like I did the other night, after relieving myself finally I felt incredible.

I was in the worlds best mood, slept great, etc....only thing I could figure was it was an endorphin response. When I get into the last year of being sick before I gave up gluten that feeling went away and I felt like crap after wards.

The biggest mystery is why does it only happen at night?

I've had maybe 20-25 serious stomach gluten attacks. Where there is unbearable pain, pressure, followed by relief after 10 minutes to several hours of extreme intestinal pain.

2 of them have been during the day. The two during the day were immediate reactions. I've had plenty of mild reactions, eat the wrong thing "Rut roh, time to go" but its done and overwith.

But the severe ones were almost always 4-8 hours later, never more, and always waking me from sleep.

But thanks again for the information I was REALLY hoping it wasn't the ice cream we had bought for a NYE treat