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Iamhealthy

By Iamhealthy
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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Iamhealthy Newbie
Iamhealthy
Posted

Hello.

I'm sorry if this is a repeat question. I've read through a lot of posts and couldn't really find my answer.

I'm waiting on my blood work results for Celiac. My doctor went ahead and placed me on a gluten free diet Thursday. I officially started the diet Friday, so I'm at the end of day 3. I have the worst stomach pain ever right now. It's mostly my upper abdomin. I'm trying to figure out if this is a result of the change in diet or do I have stomach flu???? Can someone please tell me if this is a normal physical reaction on or around day 3??? I'm suppose to fly to Seattle for work on Tuesday and if I have stomach flu I might need to cancel.

Help!!

Thank you!

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Oh, dear. I'm sorry you feel crummy. :ph34r:

What did you eat ?

Sometimes people do not react well to gluten free substitute foods well until they figure out what agrees with them. Or, they discover they also need to give up dairy on either a temporary or permanent basis, they may be able to reintroduce it later if it is low lactose, like in a gluten-free yogurt or hard cheese.

In the beginning, I didn't eat grains and could not find a yogurt I could tolerate because many of the yogurt manufacturers were adding dry milk thickeners that weren't getting the lactose fermented out. I gave up for quite a while, and then found I could eat small amounts of organic hard cheese, and the yogurt of the kind with the cow on the label.... when I found this site, I noticed the ads for the same brand and thought, "a ha!" this must be the place where people like me hang out and dish on about food ! I was so sick of reading about how all these other gluten-free people were eating some obscure brand of yogurt that is not sold in this state and I'd never seen anywhere, and blah blah should be tolerated, and instead I kept trying brand after brand with no luck until this.

Or you may just really be sensitive right now to starches, which may decrease over time as your gut heals up.

Have you drank alcohol ? Your gut is much more sensitive to it than a normal person's, same with over the counter things like ibuprofen.

And there is a lot of this stomach flu going around from what I'm reading.

Iamhealthy Newbie
Iamhealthy
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Thank you for the response! I feel much better today. No stomach ache just a head ache, so it must have been what I ate. This is what I ate yesterday:

Grapes

Brown rice with real butter

Peanuts

Then a few hours later my stomach started to hurt so I didn't eat anything else the rest of the day. I'm thinking maybe I have a problem with peanuts. I didn't think it was possible to have a reaction to something after just 3 days. I've always had a stomach ache after I ate even when I was little, but last night was intense.

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ang1e0251
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You may want to question the grapes too. I couldn't tolerate fruit for most of the first year. Now I can eat any fruit.

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