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Gluten Oops...how Soon Will Symptoms Onset?

Tim86

By Tim86
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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Tim86 Apprentice
Tim86
Posted

I'd like to know how long it takes for you to get symptoms when you accidentally consume some gluten. Specifically intestinal symptoms like bloating, gurgling stomach, and diarrhea. How many hours does it take from when you made the OOPS, until you noticed obvious symptoms? I'd like to get many different responses, because I'm curious to see how consistent (or inconsistent) the responses are.

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jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Hi Tim, welcome :)

You will get lots of different responses since this is a pretty individual thing. For me, it usually takes about 2 hours for the bloating and gurgling to start. My second day is generally the worst of it.

mushroom Proficient
mushroom
Posted

I got glutened about 9:00 p.m. Diarrhea in the early hours of the morning and all next day, followed by gas and bloating for the next two days. This was my first food glutening; all the others have been meds and have only given bloating, gas and extreme nausea, no diarrhea. Don't know why the difference.

lizard00 Enthusiast
lizard00
Posted

Hi and welcome!

I get a headache pretty quickly, but the GI stuff starts usually the next day. I don't really have gurgling or bloating, but my stomach and SI feel very inflammed, and when I eat it's 10x worse.

It takes me about 8-10 days to feel back to normal, but the first 3 days are the worst for me. After that, I feel like the inflammation subsides.

mamaesq Rookie
mamaesq
Posted

I've had different reactions.

Mostly, I am really gassy, have diarrhea for a few days, and am so bloated. I wore a pair of pants on a Wednesday, got cross contaminated on Thursday night, and wore the same pants on Friday afternoon and they didn't fit me. Fortunately they were side zip suit pants and the shirt and jacket I wore was long enough to cover the zipper being half up! My stomach also gets very noisy.

Once, I vomited about 4 hours after being glutened. I was completely fine the next day. I had no diarrhea. It was clearly not a stomach bug.

Lollie Enthusiast
Lollie
Posted

Hi and welcome!

I usually get my symptoms with in a couple of hours of consuming gluten. It is usually "D" and intense intestinal pain. I then have a headache the next day.

It's been a while since i got sick.... but I make all my own food, and never eat fast food or processed.

cyberprof Enthusiast
cyberprof
Posted

This sounds unbelievable, but I get symptoms within 5-15 minutes. I sometimes eat just a few bites and wait just a few minutes (if I'm eating out or food that I didn't cook myself) and then I can stop if it makes me ill. My immediate symptoms are burping, nausea, stomach noises (actually my stomach makes noises but feels like there's a wild animal inside it). Later symptoms are D for two days or so and mouth ulcers. I get mouth irritation the same day. I'm tired for a day or two.

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krystal Rookie
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I will start to feel it within about an hour - mostly nausea, headache or brain fog. An hour or so later, I get the gurgles and stomach pains, and sometimes a couple hours after that I get horrendous SHIVERING, but I am not cold (???). Nausea will continue for a good 12 hours, and the next morning - less than 24 hours - are the lower GI symptoms, not always D, but never comfortable.

DinaB Apprentice
DinaB
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I was accidentally glutened yesterday afternoon. I knew it right away because I get a sinus/migraine headache that will sometimes last for days (depending on how much is digested). About 1 hour later severe D, followed by hives/rash, nausea, mouth sores and then the next morning I get eczema all over my scalp and face. Fun stuff...

I have realized lately, that depending on what I consume, my symptoms will begin just not in the same order. It is all very strange.

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katerinoula18 Newbie
katerinoula18
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my symptoms usually start within 15 minutes of eating something containing gluten. I get different symptoms every time. For example, the activia yogurt (yea, i didn't know it contained wheat in the natural flavors) made me look 6 months pregnant within 15 minutes and I got very dizzy and tired and cold. The next day I get diarrhea and the bloating/inflammation only subsides completely after 3-4 days. Also every food I eat during those 4 days doesn't go down quite well.

When I used to eat bread, I would get a headache within 15 minutes. Then dizziness, shivering, heavy feeling head, i fall asleep and when I wake up, I start bloating. The next few days is the bloating (again 3-4 days), gas etc.

samcarter Contributor
samcarter
Posted

I get neurological symptoms about an hour or two afterwards, sometimes sooner. I get "hot flashes", dizzy, and very, very sleepy. Headachey, too.

The digestive stuff doesn't kick in until the next morning, usually. And it takes a day or two. This is with amounts like you would find in Pringles (wheat starch) or things like that. I can't remember exactly the last time I ate a piece of bread, but I remember how horrible I felt almost immediately afterwards. I remember throwing up within an hour or two.

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