Temp Leaky Gut And How To Fix

[Eric-C]

After having an incredible year with my Celiac's things fell apart.

I was taking some anti-biotics and it turned into leaky gut I think...plus it didn't help that I also has gluten unknown to me.

I'm fighting feelings of hypoglycemia, and real hypoglycemia if I don't eat enough.

I am just on the border...I took some anitbiotics along with Tum's smoothies and it hit me, gluten and anti-biotics, bad combo. I recovered from that OK by eating slow digesting carbs and was good to go.

We had Easter Sunday dinner at our house just to make sure nothing bad happened. Well I think the Marzetti's dip my MIL brought over had gluten in it. Light stomach and other problems on Sunday night. Monday felt a little off. Sister took us to Outback and I went because its usually safe, ordered gluten-free.

Tuesday the hypoglycemia hit...I've been down this road before. My blood sugar will be in the good range but I feel like I'm having a hypoglycemic attack. I test it regularly and its all working just fine except I will hit in the low 70's if I go too long without eating, but its close to 7-8 hours. Even when it tests in the 80's I feel a bit jittery.

I read the diet for leaky gut, what exactly can you eat? I had used Snicker's bars in the past to get me through the day. Snicker's are high in sugar but because of their make up their glucose index is actually pretty low. I know Snickers are supposed to be gluten-free but I wonder if thats not contributing to my problem.

Tonight we had a very low carb dinner, chicke BBQ'd with Ken's Salad dressing, a salad with 1000 Island, and some green/red/yellow peppers in a olive oil. This is all gluten-free stuff. After the last round 3 weeks ago we called every single company for every product.

I swear Snicker's have changed their recipe...I've had hypoglycemia in the past. You feel dizzy, crappy, etc...you have some sugar and in 10 minutes if not less, your good...here my blood sugar level is rising to normal levels but I still feel off.

Takes a good 1/2 an hour to level out.

Any idea's? The endo I was seeing for this years ago is on vacation for another two weeks and he is honestly the only person I've trusted with my health since this started.

[chatycady]

I have reactive hypoglycemia that is pretty well under control and I hope eventually cured for good. Leaky gut is the problem. Fix the leaky gut and hopefully you cure the hypoglycemia.

Snickers bars will not cure the leaky gut, and actually makes it worse. The goal is to keep your blood sugar level. Snickers candy bars raise it too fast, which creates the yo yo effect and in a couple hours blood sugar drops drastically. Each episode gets worse and worse.

I follow the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and have very little problems now. According to the creator of the diet it will take about 1 year to get better. I'm on month 7 and pretty much feeling normal.

Hope you find a diet to work for you. Protein and easily digested carbs will even out your blood sugar. The question is can you give up your favorite foods to get better? That is the hard part.

Good luck.

P.S. the glycemic index doesn't account for whether or not the food can be easily digested. Most all whole grains and high fiber foods have a low glyemic index, but a damaged leaky gut can't handle them. The undigested food passes straight into the blood stream causing your symptoms.

[Eric-C]

Thanks for the reply.

My leaky gut symptoms thankfully are not usually long lasting. I've been through this a few times and usually it takes a week or so to heal up, this time just seemed worse because now when I go back and look I probably had 3 opportunities where I had gluten over the span of 10 days, each little bit creating more of a problem.

The problem was this time around is that after I had gluten, had the inflamation, I had sugar and a few other things I should not have had too soon.

Things make a huge change over the past 2 days and I went nearly 9 hours without eating and didn't get a hypoglycemic reaction. I ate my dinner last night around 6:30, had Tandori Chicken, a Arabic cucumber salad, and then a fresh mixed greens salad with 1000 Island.

Made it all the way through to this morning at 8am where we had a single Van's gluten-free waffle with Agave, banana, single egg, and a small piece of cheese.

I hear sugar is a big thing for leaky gut. Since we've started our own business I find myself on the road a lot during the day and the sugar intake has really picked up. We were using maple syrup with the waffles, we had found a great Sweet Thai Chilli sauce that we made with pork/peppers over rice, and we also eat a lot of Indian food.

So I was loading up on rice and sugar all day long which probably put me where I am. Plus we bought a deep fryer to make fried fish on Friday's with french fries. We said we were just going to have fried food once a week but after reading what triggers leaky gut I probably put too many of those things together. I never had issues with leaky gut unless gluten triggered it. The Tums that had the gluten probably set it off.

I was fine last Sunday but after Easter dinner I blew up like a balloon.

Thankfully its all retracting now and we'll slow down on all the bad stuff.

Good or bad I have been having hand full of potatoe chips every few hours. Good or bad it keeps me level and there is no big crash associated with them.

We have no problem giving up the food, or reducing it. We both love Arabic food which pretty much fits the entire diet for leaky gut issues. With our business I can't be out of commission at all so not having the food is easy, I have no choice really. My wife is making chicken breast in lemon that we'll dip in a hummuus/garlic mix along with a Fahtoush salad. Dinner we'll have chicken marsala with some fresh Italian veggies.

We learned a long time ago, no food is worth your health. Even the things I was eating were not the worst, just too much, too fast, mixed in with gluten.

[LandonL]

Thanks for the reply.

My leaky gut symptoms thankfully are not usually long lasting. I've been through this a few times and usually it takes a week or so to heal up, this time just seemed worse because now when I go back and look I probably had 3 opportunities where I had gluten over the span of 10 days, each little bit creating more of a problem.

The problem was this time around is that after I had gluten, had the inflamation, I had sugar and a few other things I should not have had too soon.

Things make a huge change over the past 2 days and I went nearly 9 hours without eating and didn't get a hypoglycemic reaction. I ate my dinner last night around 6:30, had Tandori Chicken, a Arabic cucumber salad, and then a fresh mixed greens salad with 1000 Island.

Made it all the way through to this morning at 8am where we had a single Van's gluten-free waffle with Agave, banana, single egg, and a small piece of cheese.

I hear sugar is a big thing for leaky gut. Since we've started our own business I find myself on the road a lot during the day and the sugar intake has really picked up. We were using maple syrup with the waffles, we had found a great Sweet Thai Chilli sauce that we made with pork/peppers over rice, and we also eat a lot of Indian food.

So I was loading up on rice and sugar all day long which probably put me where I am. Plus we bought a deep fryer to make fried fish on Friday's with french fries. We said we were just going to have fried food once a week but after reading what triggers leaky gut I probably put too many of those things together. I never had issues with leaky gut unless gluten triggered it. The Tums that had the gluten probably set it off.

I was fine last Sunday but after Easter dinner I blew up like a balloon.

Thankfully its all retracting now and we'll slow down on all the bad stuff.

Good or bad I have been having hand full of potatoe chips every few hours. Good or bad it keeps me level and there is no big crash associated with them.

We have no problem giving up the food, or reducing it. We both love Arabic food which pretty much fits the entire diet for leaky gut issues. With our business I can't be out of commission at all so not having the food is easy, I have no choice really. My wife is making chicken breast in lemon that we'll dip in a hummuus/garlic mix along with a Fahtoush salad. Dinner we'll have chicken marsala with some fresh Italian veggies.

We learned a long time ago, no food is worth your health. Even the things I was eating were not the worst, just too much, too fast, mixed in with gluten.

how do you know if you have leaky gut, or how can you find out?

[Eric-C]

how do you know if you have leaky gut, or how can you find out?

Well for me it was extremely problematic. I originally years ago thought I had a severe reaction to Cipro which caused:

nerve damage, uncontrollable shaking of the hands/arms/legs

muscle damage

memory loss

Thorasic Outlet Syndrome

Planter fasciatis(sp?)

insomnia

waking to a extremely rapid heart rate

muscle tension in the calves, shoulders, and neck

a permanent frontal lobe headache

Extremel anxiety/panic attacks

hypoglycemia/diabetes type symptoms

I could go on and on...I was like that for about six months but I was eating gluten, this was before I gave it up.

Reducing my gluten intake helped a lot of the symptoms and eliminating it fixed everything for the most part.

Now I've had those symptoms re-occur but for much much shorter periods of time, 1 week at best, 2 at worst. They are the most severe when I have gluten/sugar, brings me back to square one.

I never knew what was causing, just thought it was the gluten but now I know it was leaky gut. The good news is it heals extremely fast.

The bad news is I was having processed gluten unknown to me in small amounts for about a week or so. Plus a lot of sugar.

I can "have" gluten and just get a stomach response if it is unprocessed...if its processed, deep fried, etc then it causes the leaky gut reaction, don't ask me why but thats what it does.

So the sugar fed the leaky guy problem.

I don't have the anxiety, extreme nerve problems, or the muscle problems now. I take a bunch of B12 and D3 which means I just get hypoglycemica/diabetic reactions.

I'm lucky in that it heals extremely fast, or had in the past. However my sugar intake now is much higher than what it used to be. Pure sugar, not HFCS.

I cut out sugar and I feel great....I wake up with a little bit of a rapid heart beat but that is going away.

I'll stay away from sugar for 2-3 weeks and be good as new.

The frustrating part is I suffered for nearly a year, and then again the next year because no doctor could figure it out.

[Eric-C]

I forgot to mention. These were the severe results.

Now knowing what I know this all started one night back in October 6 years ago.

I was in the basement on the phone and had a panic attack, never had one in my life...that was the first time Celiac's showed itself.

Things were up and down for years but even when the Celiac's seemed to go away, and yes it did go away for a while, when things came back I started out with twitchy eyes and face muscles.

That came and went for years before it really got bad.

I had gotten an anti-biotic shot years go and had the same response as the Cipro but only for 3-4 days. Never thought much of it but now I can piece it all together.

So the first stuff is very minor...I had twitchy eyes for a year...turns out that was one of the first signs.