How Long Does It Take Your Symptoms To Appear?

[mindaugas]

I took a blood test and was diagnosed with Celiacs disease. If I eat gluten I get the symptoms in about 30 minutes. I've heard some people don't get them for hours. Just curious to hear about different people's reactions to it and how long it takes.

[oceangirl]

I think you'll find a wide variety of responses to this. I think I used to respond more immediately, however, 4 years in, if I get gluten now, I suspect it's a miniscule amount from cc. I could react right away or take anywhere from hours to days. Makes it sometimes tricky to find the culprit even when I've kept a DETAILED food/symptom log for almost 3 years now.

Others will post-

take care,

lisa

[ravenwoodglass]

I get the neuro effects within a couple of hours along with stomach pain, gurgling and gas. Within 24 hours I will have joint and muscle pain that will usually last at least 2 two weeks. The D that hits doesn't hit until about 3 days later and is usually gone within a few hours. Usually within the same 3 day period my hair will start to drop and that also continues for a couple of weeks. What used to be my first sign is now my last, a DH breakout. Now though it is slight and short lived, thank goodness.

[sugarsue]

My 6 yr old usually gets diarrhea and gas within 15 minutes of eating it. Often before she even finishes the meal. She usually will then have symptoms for 2-5 days.

But then, sometimes, she will have trouble out of the blue, obviously a gluten problem, but I can't trace it back to anything. These are the confusing times when it's not clear what happened.

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[.:* Lou *:.]

About 1/2 hour or so.. then can last for anywhere up to an hour (intense nausea, tummy gurgles etc) or a day (headaches, lethargy, general tummy unsettle)

*ginger can really help nausea for me I find.. there's a co. called buderim if you're in Aus/NZ that makes some really good glace ginger called "naked ginger" ~ so it's not sticky and not crystallised- with all those sugar crumbs!

[MELINE]

takes me 5-8 hours to feel really exhausted. Then I will have nightmares the same night, and next morning an awful headache and eczema in the corners of my mouth. But I think I am lucky, the whole thing lasts just 1 day. No D, no bloating, no gas.

Meline

[julirama723]

My symptoms and onset times differ with each accidental ingestion, BUT most of the time it hits me about 30 minutes after eating. I get bloating, gas, cramping, and I feel like I'm going to explode. Usually about 8-24 hours later is when the D comes. I'm usually exhausted for at least 3 days. I might get a migraine the next day, or when the gluten finally gets out of my system.

I did a gluten challenge (a few months ago) for as long as I could stand, and eating gluten everyday and all day produced new and horrifying symptoms that I hadn't had before. Nausea, unexplainable rage, dizziness, irritability, brain fog, confusion, something that felt like a thyroid storm, and the scariest by far--after eating toast one morning, I felt like I couldn't move my arms, almost like a temporary paralyisis. That lasted for about 5-10 minutes.

I'll never purposely ingest gluten again, as those weeks were the WORST in my entire life. It was torture.

[Gfresh404]

I took a blood test and was diagnosed with Celiacs disease. If I eat gluten I get the symptoms in about 30 minutes. I've heard some people don't get them for hours. Just curious to hear about different people's reactions to it and how long it takes.

Depends on amount of gluten consumed. The more I eat, the faster symptoms appear and vice versa.