Getting Less Sensetive?...

[wschmucks]

Hey guys!

This Tuesday I will be 3 months Gluten free :-) The first month and a half was not good. Every 10 days or so I would get accidentally glutened and feel awful for about 4 days then start to get better adn then the cycle would continue (Pain, constipation followed by D, and fatigue).

I have been feeling better (still have some bloating, fatigue and muscle weakness-- but not the punched in the stomach, feeling of getting glutened). Now i know that it takes a long time for these other symptoms to go away and thats fine.

I have heard that most people become more sensetive with time and I am worried that I have become LESS sensetive and therefore wouldnt know if i am getting glutened or not. We can still hurt ourselved internally even if we dont feel it externally, so it would be nice to know when I have slipped up to help me learn.

Does anyone become less sensetive as the anti-body levels drop? Or have I really not gotten glutened in a month and a half (it was a very abrupt change). Just wondering if anyone knows, so I can make sure I'm taking care of myself the right way.

Thanks!

[maile]

I'm also new to this and wondered that myself, and then I got glutened on the weekend my experience...it's doesn't go away.

Perhaps you have been quite good at keeping the gluten out of your diet, but I wouldn't test it

[ravenwoodglass]

I think a lot of us become more sensitive but everyone is different. Were you diagnosed with bloodwork? If you were you could have the panel rerun and see how much your antibodies are dropping.

[wschmucks]

I was diagnosed with the blood pannel and the endoscopy. I'm not sure that it would be enough time for the anti bodies to go down though (just under 3 months). Not sure. I thought, and would kinda of hope that I would get more sensetive...maybe i'm getting better at it?

Anyone else have thoughts?

[Jestgar]

My reactions are more minimal. I can still tell if I've gotten CC'd, but sometimes I have to think about it.

[bakingbarb]

Some people are not sensitive to it at all. They never have the reactions that many of us have. It is worse to be that way I think., because you are damaging yourself with out the signals of it.

[wschmucks]

Ask and you shall receive!

So I got glutened last night by Nestel's butter scoth chips. I forgot to read the lablel (Grrrr). I ate about 10 of them then said "crap! the label" and there it was very well disclosed by nestle "natural flavors (from barley)". I give them an A+ for disclosing all sources of gluten. So then I cried... and I CAN feel it now (the next morning). Just cramping and an over all tender and wierd feeling in my gut. It isnt the punching in the stomach feeling i used to get-- so I have gotten less sensetive, but i can still feel it.

I will check back in later today....maybe it'll really kick in :-/