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My First Slip-up

ERR

By ERR
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ERR Apprentice
ERR
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I was diagnosed last week. Went Gluten free starting on Friday. Last night I was feeling pretty good. I celebrated by drinking some wine and cooking my wife dinner. A stir fry with rice pasta. Mostly used olive oil and gluten free soy suace, but I also, inexplicably, put in some jack daniels bbq sauce. Around 9:30 this morning it hit me. I felt so logey, and fidgety at the same time. I don't really get the intestinal issues (or I guess I should say the overt intestinal symptoms) I feel more like I took a bunch of nyquill -- just lousy. So I have spent much of the day beating myself up.

Anyway, since I am new to all this, did I completely undo all the healing my body did in its first 4 gluten-free days? I was starting to feel really good. Will I get back there sooner? What did I just do to myself?

I have to say I am amazed that whatever little bit of gluten that was in that sauce (probably about 2 ounces of which I put in the skillet, made it through and did this to me.

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ravenwoodglass Mentor
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If you have only been gluten free for 4 days it could be any number of things that could have 'got' you. Have you deglutened your kitchen? Are you using nonstick pans that may be scratched or a cutting board or wooden utensils that have been used for gluten. You did a stir fry with noodles, was that a new colander?

It can be hard sometimes to pinpoint what got us so I am not saying it wasn't the barbeque sauce. It could have been.

We all slip up at times, even those of us who have been on the diet for years. Don't be too hard on yourself.

ERR Apprentice
ERR
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Plastic utensils and cutting boards that had been through the dishwasher anyway since they had been in contact with gluten. Ditto the colander. Is there a guide to de-glutening a kitchen somewhere?

cat3883 Explorer
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The first 3-4 weeks of my recovery I would feel like that for no reason. My doctor said it was just my body healing. One day I would feel great and then the next I felt like I had been beaten. I don't know about the bbq sauce you used but Sweet Baby Rays is gluten free. Good luck to you. I am only 4 months into my healing and I feel 20 years younger.

ravenwoodglass Mentor
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Plastic utensils and cutting boards that had been through the dishwasher anyway since they had been in contact with gluten. Ditto the colander. Is there a guide to de-glutening a kitchen somewhere?

If the cutting boards are wood you need to replace them. The colander also should be replaced. There isn't any quide that I know of but if you post that as a topic many will reply and tell you what safegaurds you need to take. For me it was easy, I just threw out all gluten stuff as I made my home totally gluten free. Basically if you are in a mixed household you need your own condiments like mayo, butter, peanut butter, jelly, anything that you dip a knife into needs to be for your use only. Baking needs to be done very carefully. Flour drifts and all surfaces should be throughly cleaned when someone uses flour. You also will need a new toaster that is dedicated to gluten free breads only.

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