Gluten/body Aches...

[tweeks2010]

Hey, I am currently working at a grocery store with some bakery shifts. Just wondering if anybody else gets body aches when they are around gluten. Almost everytime I am working in there...I am constantly aching all over.

[ravenwoodglass]

Gluten will flare both my fibro and my arthritis. When you are in the bakery you are breathing it in and it is getting into your system that way. Can you get shifts somewhere other than the bakery? Celiac is covered under the ADA so if you are diagnosed you do have the right to request that you not be ordered to work in the bakery. I wouldn't make a stink about it but just tell the managers about the problem and see if they will find a way you can work those shifts in a different dept. Hopefully they will be understanding.

[brendab]

Wow, I never thought about that before!

What you describe is what I get when I am PG and it's horribly painful, like somebody put a blanket of pain over me and it washes in waves. Is this what you are describing? It makes me wonder if my gluten intolerance gave me worse symptoms while PG? I think I ought to make a new thread LOL I don't want to hijack yours

[tweeks2010]

Yea the aches just kinda come and go in waves...all over the body...all day long. I have been doing alot of bakery shifts though. I can ask my boss to not put me in the bakery...i know he will be understanding of that...but I don't have a positive biopsy or blood test...just based on my symptoms and my reaction to going gluten free, the docs says i am celiac. The only way for me to get a positive test is to get sick again...and there is no way in hell will i do that again. I got glutened about a week or so ago...from a little bit off of a water bottle..I was sick for 4 days with stomach cramps. Not fun.

Anyways, they doctor said I had fibro before I had even come to celiac..so I never thought about the fibro as a seperate thing from celiac...i guess they would come hand in hand though right.

I am in a situation where I am waiting for my mortgage approval...then I can tell the boss now more bakery shifts. It kind of sucks though...I like making the cakes and stuff...and They love me in there too.. I am one of the best workers. I guess it's a small price to pay to be healthy.

[ravenwoodglass]

Yea the aches just kinda come and go in waves...all over the body...all day long. I have been doing alot of bakery shifts though. I can ask my boss to not put me in the bakery...i know he will be understanding of that...but I don't have a positive biopsy or blood test...just based on my symptoms and my reaction to going gluten free, the docs says i am celiac. The only way for me to get a positive test is to get sick again...and there is no way in hell will i do that again. I got glutened about a week or so ago...from a little bit off of a water bottle..I was sick for 4 days with stomach cramps. Not fun.

Anyways, they doctor said I had fibro before I had even come to celiac..so I never thought about the fibro as a seperate thing from celiac...i guess they would come hand in hand though right.

I am in a situation where I am waiting for my mortgage approval...then I can tell the boss now more bakery shifts. It kind of sucks though...I like making the cakes and stuff...and They love me in there too.. I am one of the best workers. I guess it's a small price to pay to be healthy.

If your doc says your celiac you have a diagnosis. I was really surprised when my fibro and so many other things went away after I had been gluten free for a few months. I never thought everything was connected to the extent that it was. I hope your pain goes away for good also.

[Aphreal]

My hip joint aches and lower back aches were the first to go when I went gluten-free. I also have shoulder arthritis and I haven't had any pain from that either. Thank GOD! The hip thing was about to do me in! I would try to move. Who wants to be achy all day?

Tiff

[tweeks2010]

My hip joint aches and lower back aches were the first to go when I went gluten-free. I also have shoulder arthritis and I haven't had any pain from that either. Thank GOD! The hip thing was about to do me in! I would try to move. Who wants to be achy all day?

Tiff

I just had to say that we have the same name...LOL..my hip does the same thing too. Now that I think of it...I went gluten free...then started working in a bakery then all of my joints go out all the time and are aching...neck is ALWAYS tight...ect. It has actually been getting worse in the last few weeks. Hmm...lol

[precious831]

Hey, I am currently working at a grocery store with some bakery shifts. Just wondering if anybody else gets body aches when they are around gluten. Almost everytime I am working in there...I am constantly aching all over.

I have fibromyalgia and also arthritis and it flares up when I'm glutened(among other things. When I feel glutened I feel like a truck just run me over, almost like I have the flu. Achy joints, back pain,neck pain, just pain all over. My joints also swell.

I hope you can find some relief.

[precious831]

Btw I forgot to say, my GI doctor said that fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis(this is not UTI) and celiac usually go together. I have all three unfortunately. They flare up when I get glutened.

[SueQueBlue]

I have all 3 as well. I also was dx'd with Irritable Bowel, but I am hoping that is really just Celiac, and the IBS goes away. Actually I would like all of it to go away, and for the Celiac to be tamed, but I'm a newbie, so I don't know what will happen as time goes by.