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Symptoms Of Being Glutened?

jklatt

By jklatt
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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jklatt Rookie
jklatt
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So I have been gluten free for just over 2 weeks and it has been the best! I have been a long time medical mystery and since stopping the gluten I have for the first time not felt tired, my eyes aren't red, no sneezing, no stomach pain, no swollen anything...and I've lost several inches from body. It's been just great! However last night I started to feel that horrible bloated feeling again and (pardon me) a little gassy! I got worried. This morning I woke up with swollen hands and my face feels puffy...my eyes are a little red and I have been sneezing. I also noticed that my stomach feels full and I again feel gassy. I am not sure what I ate, but here's a little run down.

At Easter on Sunday the only thing I can think of that may be the culprit was ham and pickles.

Yesterday I made a potato salad and the mayo didn't say distilled vinegar...just vinegar.

So my question is....did are these symptoms of being contaminated with gluten again? And does any of the above sound like a possible offender?

When will the symptoms go away?

I am going to be eating raw foods today and plenty, plenty of water! Any help would be great!

Thanks,

Jessica

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ang1e0251 Contributor
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I started to react like to ham last summer. Twice it happened so I haven't been eating ham only the lunchmeat from Hormel called Naturals. No nitrates. I'm not sure because last week I tried some bacon and I was OK with it. Not really sure why the ham got me. I don't always know why, I just avoid it if I react more than once.

Could gluten have been passed to the ham from shared utensils? Or someone leaning over it with bread or dinner rolls?

GottaSki Mentor
GottaSki
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I'm three weeks gluten-free and do feel slightly better during the day, but I still bloat and get very achy joints every evening. I am fairly certain I've glutened myself twice and those reactions were different and happened 30-45 minutes after I ate.

Last night I didn't bloat until 5:45pm -- normally this happens between 3 and 4 so I am encouraged that thing may be improving and hopeful that it will take weeks, rather than months to improve.

BUT I have read many posts that state about 3-6 months or longer for recovery, which has helped me to become a bit more patient with my progress.

TES Newbie
TES
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So I have been gluten free for just over 2 weeks and it has been the best! I have been a long time medical mystery and since stopping the gluten I have for the first time not felt tired, my eyes aren't red, no sneezing, no stomach pain, no swollen anything...and I've lost several inches from body. It's been just great! However last night I started to feel that horrible bloated feeling again and (pardon me) a little gassy! I got worried. This morning I woke up with swollen hands and my face feels puffy...my eyes are a little red and I have been sneezing. I also noticed that my stomach feels full and I again feel gassy. I am not sure what I ate, but here's a little run down.

At Easter on Sunday the only thing I can think of that may be the culprit was ham and pickles.

Yesterday I made a potato salad and the mayo didn't say distilled vinegar...just vinegar.

So my question is....did are these symptoms of being contaminated with gluten again? And does any of the above sound like a possible offender?

When will the symptoms go away?

I am going to be eating raw foods today and plenty, plenty of water! Any help would be great!

Thanks,

Jessica

Yes, it sounds like you got glutened...sorry! Did the ham have carmel coloring? I use the Hormel canned ham, it is safe. I also do not use mayo or pickles because of the distilled vinegar, it makes me react.. My brother brought me some gluten free (on the label) corn chips (Great Value) and they glutened me, so beware of even the some of the gluten free products. I am going to email and see if they are made on a dedicated line. I think time is your only friend as far as healing and we all do that differently, but I am finding after 8 months on gluten-free diet that I do react when glutened, but not as violent and healing is faster...hang in there.

jklatt Rookie
jklatt
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Thanks for the replies...I have been slowly feeling better over the last couple days, but still am bloated. I get so confused because I guess it could just be PMS...I'm due in about a week...so I guess that's possible.

However I think I got a little careless with food because I assumed things were safe. I got to thinking about it and it could have been the ham, but I also had on Tuesday these dried mangos and potato salad and possibly that had gluten in it. All I know is that it was depressing feeling like that again after so many days with out that feeling! But I will be patient and I hope that things will improve by the end of summer :-)! This is such a great site for information...thanks again!

Leper Messiah Apprentice
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I get the same way too. One day it's great, you feel like 'yes, I've cracked it, that's me gluten free from now on and I'll never feel rubbish again' then for some random reason the reaction comes on. You immediately go meticulously through everything you've ate in the past few hours/days and try to find the cause. I don't know about you but for me I get a delayed reaction which means I only tend to get a reaction after taking on more food 12 hours or so after eating the problem food.

I'm quite impatient but I guess I've had this for so long that I can wait a while for my gut to heal so definitely keep with it! It's annoying to get a lapse but one step back, two forward!

Don't know if this will help but to aid digestion you should maybe experiment with combining the right types of foods - i.e. basically trying to keep protein heavy and starch heavy foods apart, having them separately at different meals; eating fruits alone generally and having veg with either protein or starchey foods.

Good luck.

mushroom Proficient
mushroom
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Yesterday I made a potato salad and the mayo didn't say distilled vinegar...just vinegar.

Don't you just hate it when they say "vinegar". Do you mean wine vinegar, white vinegar, balsamic vinegar, cider vinegar, or malt vinegar (like they use here so often)? I'm afraid whenever I see just "vinegar" I say "No thanks."

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Leper Messiah Apprentice
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Don't quote me on this but I'm sure I read somewhere that food labelling regulation dictates that if a product quotes only 'vinegar' on its ingredients it has to be apple cider vinegar.

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