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Why Did A Cookie (non-gluten-free) Make Me Feel Better?

foodiegurl

By foodiegurl
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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foodiegurl Collaborator
foodiegurl
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I am still not totally gluten-free, not until after this weekend, though I have been staying away from any purposeful gluten-free..until yesterday when I was baking cookies for my daughter's bday today, to bring to school. I actually had an upset tummy yesterday, but decided to have 3 cookies last night (they are mini cookies), and after that my tummy felt better...odd, and I didn't wake up feeling bad either.

And it is weird, that for me, my go-to when feeling ick has always been triscuits (before diagnosis 2 weeks ago), and they would always settle my stomach. Maybe this is all in my imagination.

Could all of my blood work been false positives? i doubt it, since all 4 things, or whatever, they check for were all positive, but it is interesting.

H.Pylori wouldn't cause a false positive would it?

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mindiloo Rookie
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that is odd, i would tell your doctor and see what he/she thinks.

it could be psychological, you always go to the same thing to make you feel better so when you eat them you automatically think oh hey this makes me feel better, then you feel better.

ravenwoodglass Mentor
ravenwoodglass
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You could still be in the withdrawl phase. Also gluten is often a delayed reaction. It can take up to 3 days for the symptoms of a glutening to appear.

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
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There's also the fact that gluten is extroardinarily addictive, so your brain may be going 'OOO, there's my drug' and making you feel better emotionally, therefore physically. It definitely sounds like withrdawal. Eventually, gluten free, you'll be able to feel better all the time.

kbtoyssni Contributor
kbtoyssni
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My first thought was you're probably addicted so after getting you "fix" of gluten you felt better.

wschmucks Contributor
wschmucks
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I dont always have obvious glutening symptoms-- and if you arent 100% gluten free and havent been for a while, you really wouldnt necessarily notice it. Also, when i do get glutened I wont feel it for like 48-72 hours, which makes it even harder to figure out what got me. But it isnt unusual to have scattered symptoms.

foodiegurl Collaborator
foodiegurl
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Ok, well today, 3 days later. my stomach is feeling pretty awful, and I am so unbelievably constipated...so maybe this is from the cookies? i have not had anything with gluten since. Ugh, not fun.

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... decided to have 3 cookies last night (they are mini cookies), and after that my tummy felt better...odd, and I didn't wake up feeling bad either.

Symptoms do not directly equate to autoimmune response. Maybe the sugar in the cookies gave you a slight "high"?

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