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Feeling Like A Squeezed Orange

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Hey folks. 2 weeks into my 6-week gluten challenge after 35 days off. Mostly, I'm feeling like a squeezed orange. I check back here periodically to see what everyone's saying about what, but whether or not my endoscopy confirms my equivocal blood work, I'm assuming that a gluten-free diet is in order. Curious if you've had symptoms like mine.

The most notable symptom is that every time I eat (and I am eating gluten with every meal, btw) I have an incredibly strong, painful urge to eliminate within 5-30 minutes. Because I'm a small guy who gets hungry a lot, you can imagine that I'm going pretty frequently. It's not necessarily diarrhea, but it is always immediate. Quite literally a pain in the butt. Anyone else?

Also I have this sensation in my lower abdomen which I can only describe as being "squeezed like an orange." I thought maybe it was a lemon first, but that didn't sound as romantic. Not necessarily because I'm going a lot (i.e. it doesn't feel muscular and I'm not straining,) more like my bowels are screaming in pain.

I'm just curious because none of those thousands of symptoms-lists I've read have mentioned either of these. Thoughts? Or feel free to share your own weird symptoms here. Good luck to us all.

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Also I have this sensation in my lower abdomen which I can only describe as being "squeezed like an orange." I thought maybe it was a lemon first, but that didn't sound as romantic. Not necessarily because I'm going a lot (i.e. it doesn't feel muscular and I'm not straining,) more like my bowels are screaming in pain.

Hi there! I experience something similiar. It feels like my guts are being squeezed and stomped on, sometimes I have sharp pains as well. I have had bloodwork that my doc told me indicates I have celiacs and I go for an endo and biopsy but they can't get me in till Jan. 15. It's killing me to wait that long and I have to continue eating gluten of course so I get to live with the pain a while longer.

Amy in Alaska

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I'm sorry to hear that, Amy, but I can totally sympathize. My endo is on January 10th so what I'm trying to do now is just enjoy every morsel of bread I can consume, despite the obvious pain. It's sort of a meditation really. Either that or a sick form of torture.

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