If I Don't Have celiac disease Does It Take Time To Readjust To Gluten After Several Months G-f?

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I tested negative for celiac disease but went Gluten-free as an experiment to see if it might help my neurological symptoms. I did have considerable improvement in the first several weeks but I also made other changes around this time that may have been responsible this. After this brief period of improvement I slipped back to the status quo and even got a little worse. At 8 months I was doubtful that I had gluten intolerance and did several gluten challenges. These didn't seem to have any affect on my neurological symptoms but I did experience D in excess of what I had even before I went Gluten-free. Is it possible that my body needs to relearn how to digest gluten??

[ravenwoodglass]

Neurological issues can take some time to improve. In addition folks usually have to be super strict to see the best results. The gluten challenges you did and your reaction to them is really IMHO the best indication that you were doing the right thing by being gluten free. If I were you I would get back on the diet, become familiar with issues of CC and also learn all the places gluten can hide.

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Thanks for your thoughts, ravenwoodglass. I understand that neuro recovery is non-linear and may take several months I just couldn't understand why I had such palpable improvement early on that was so short-lived. As I said before there were other changes that could have accounted for this positive shift and that's what got me wondering if celiac is really an issue. I believe that I was reasonably strict with the diet. It was very restricted and I used my own pans, etc... The D is puzzling though I have to admit. What is CC?

[maile]

What is CC?

Cross Contamination - can be anything from eating a gluten-free food that was processed on the same line as a gluten food to using a plate/pan/bowl that previously had a gluten food on it and wasn't washed well to using a toaster/butter/mayo/jam that has crumbs in it.

just a thought about your post that you had more neuro symptoms than GI, from what I've read and experienced many of us with the neuro symptoms seem to react as well to distilled alcohols and vinegars that are officially gluten-free so that might be another area to avoid.