Gluten Free - Bad Tempers

[kimberley]

ive been off gluten for about 4 months now, i was meant to be tested for celiac but by the time i got to the doctors id decided it was time i was off gluten for good due to my stomache pains becoming unbearable, my mum always thought it made me nicer when i wasnt on gluten but my moods are up and down, when theyre up im extremely happy and when theyre bad theyre really bad. does this occur for anyone else? i am also very tired a lot, often taking naps during the day when before i didnt.

[dilettantesteph]

Irritability is the first symptom that I can notice when I get glutened. I was pretty much always irritable before diagnosis. Fatigue is also one of my glutening symptoms. It takes awhile to figure out the diet so that you don't get glutened so much anymore. I hope things get better soon.

[Mari]

I have had a problem with irritability for years and had no clue to what was making me irritable until I read about the toxins some intestinal bacteria produce which triggers mood problems. The author was Hulda Clark, PhD, ND. She used medical research and her dignostic methods to conclude that some enteric organisms such as Shigella and toxin producing E. Coli produced toxic chemicals which left people irritable and depressed. I started using her programs years ago, one of the herbs she recommended was turmeric. I took that for only a short time before my depression and irritability began to disappear. I had had gastroenteritis several times and was an undiagnosed Celiac so not only had acquired the organisms earlier but was very succeptable to gastrointestinal infections. Metametrix Labs offers an enteric stool panel which identifies harmful organisms in the intestine.