Help Understanding My Gluten Reaction

[JEHS]

Can someone tell me why my reaction to ingesting gluten is so much worse now than it was when I was actually eating it regularlly? I have been on a gluten free diet for a month now and accidently ate some gluten on Friday and literally slept for 48 hours. I woke up long enough to go to the bathroom and get something to drink. I was exhausted with no enegy. I would really like to understand this. Thanks in advance for your help.

[chasbari]

Can someone tell me why my reaction to ingesting gluten is so much worse now than it was when I was actually eating it regularlly? I have been on a gluten free diet for a month now and accidently ate some gluten on Friday and literally slept for 48 hours. I woke up long enough to go to the bathroom and get something to drink. I was exhausted with no enegy. I would really like to understand this. Thanks in advance for your help.

I can only speculate but here's my thinking. Before you were diagnosed and went on the diet you were probably at a level of coping that allowed you to get through the day. Obviously something led you to go about getting diagnosed. Once on the diet you probably started noticing more energy or some sort of change. I know the most difficult thing for me now is to avoid overdoing things because, after years, I finally can. Your body is beginning to heal and using a tremendous amount of your metabolic resources at healing the gut. Things are getting much better and then all of the sudden..wham.. a trigger to the immune system that sets of the chain of potential damage. Immune system overload and, instead of the gradual build-up and adaptation over the last several years you take a hit all at once and your body responds by shutting down. My thoughts: you were being very successful at avoiding glutens and CC and so your accidental glutening really was your first exposure in a while. Guess what happens if you sleep for 48 hours? Your body puts all its resources back into healing and you avoid eating.. perhaps a self preservative measure to make you avoid having the same thing happen again but at a physiological response level. It makes sense to me how you reacted.

[Salax]

I have to agree here. I also have a Casein issue as well as Celiac and I had a bit of butter without realizing the food I was eating was cooked with it and it kicked my but for about a full day, I felt awful.

My idea is the body is so use to the intake of gluten or whatever