Help!:(

[goldfinger]

Hi ya'll,

I just completed my first week gluten free, I did really good, did not slip up once ( suprised to me:)) however, this morning hubby and I went for breakfast at Cracker Barrel, I had scrambled eggs and bacon, they gave me toast but I gave it to hubby.

About and hour and a half later I had severe abodminal pain and diarrhea Is this what happens when you eat gluten?

I do not have celiac and did not think,even with an occasional cross contamination or slip up would bother me. Was I wrong?

This way of eating is totally new to me.

Thanks in advance

debi

[ravenwoodglass]

If the toast was on your plate with the eggs and bacon, or the eggs and bacon were cooked on a griddle that was used for pancakes or the like then yes you could have gotten CC'd. While for me the reaction takes longer to happen what you describe does sound like a gluten reaction.

[jerseyangel]

Hi ya'll,

I just completed my first week gluten free, I did really good, did not slip up once ( suprised to me:)) however, this morning hubby and I went for breakfast at Cracker Barrel, I had scrambled eggs and bacon, they gave me toast but I gave it to hubby.

About and hour and a half later I had severe abodminal pain and diarrhea Is this what happens when you eat gluten?

I do not have celiac and did not think,even with an occasional cross contamination or slip up would bother me. Was I wrong?

This way of eating is totally new to me.

Thanks in advance

debi

Yes, it is. The hour and a half was about what I had for a reaction time when I first went gluten-free. Unless you asked the server at Cracker Barrel to fix your bacon and eggs in a separate pan, you most likely got cross contaminated--not to mention the toast if it was on your plate.

Hope you feel better soon

[torimuse]

First of all: Congratulations on not slipping up in your first week. Welcome to your second. >:-)

Secondly: I'm going to ditto the above posts. I had CC issues at Denny's when they cooked my food separately, (or they said they did) but used a skillet that had in the past been used to cook french toast. I'm only on my 3rd week gluten-free, but my CC reactions have skyrocketed since I went gluten-free. Or take last night, for instance. I touched an unwashed pan that had been used to cook frozen pizza to move it out of the way and cook my own food. That left me a few hours later curled up in bed for 20 min.

It's normal to slip up, I've found. You get sick, you get over it, you try better next time. I wholeheartedly wish you the best of luck in your quest to stay gluten-free the next time you eat out.