Glutened? Still Sick After 2 Weeks! Help!

[BrookeT]

Hello,

I was diagnosed with celiac about 21/2 months ago through a blood panel (came back as "highly probable") and a positive biopsy. I started to feel a little better about 1 1/2 months in, and then I went out for my birthday weekend and ate out several times over the course of the weekend. (I normally do not eat out very often.) I was very careful about choosing the restaurants and asking a lot of questions, but apparently it did not help me. I started to feel really lethargic & run down as if I was coming down with something, and then I got a pain deep in my right hip which hurts when I walk, then after a couple of days, I started to get lower abdominal/pelvic pain, cramping, pressure & bloating, stomach rumblings and gurgling, and bad watery "d" as well as a headache above my eyes and in my temples. This has been going on for about 2 weeks now and the "d" and stomach cramps are not subsiding yet. I do still have an appetite and haven't really had any nausea. The pain in my hip seems to be going away, but that's it. I didn't have "normal" stools before this (because I am still in the healing stages) but they were nothing like they are now.

What can I do to help with the "d" and cramping? Is it "normal" to have watery "d" for so long after supposedly getting "glutened?" I am very careful about what I eat and avoiding cross-contamination, etc. I am started to worry there's something else wrong with me.

[heatherjane]

Avoid restaurants and processed foods for a while. You're still new to this and your body needs a chance to heal. Cut out dairy for a while too, if you haven't already. Basically, just eat as simply as you can until you've got this under your belt and can venture out.

This adjustment takes time....it took me way over a year before I started to feel better.