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Had A Gluten Transgression How To Symptoms Show Back Up?

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bman34 Newbie
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Had a holiday dinner with some friends on Saturday, and since I was in the spirit of the season I decided to eat some of one of my favorite desserts: Bread Pudding. So the interesting thing was that the next day Sunday, I was fine. Felt 100% normal, same with Monday and Tuesday. However yesterday my stomach etc started bubbling and feeling slightly weird. I'm not officially diagnosed, but I had a very strong correlation to removing gluten from my diet and feeling 100% better.

Now I was under the assumption that if I ate gluten I would feel awful the next day. I am pretty sure I'm not as allergic as some people, but it does seem to bother me.

So is it possible that I've seen symptoms from gluten ingestion 4 days after I ate it? Or is that impossible? The other possibility is that it was some candy I ate Tuesday night. However then the argument becomes different, if bread pudding didn't bother me, but a tiny piece of candy did what does that mean?

Any help or personal experiences would be appreciated. As with before my main concern is that I have something else going on that I need to get checked out.

With all of that said I've been gluten free since 11/12, and other than today/yesterday I've felt great. I guess it's probably also important to say that I started eating better quality food as well. I used to eat a good amount of fast food and just really greasy/salty stuff in the past.

Thanks in advance.

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GFreeMO Proficient
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It is very possible to have a delayed reaction to gluten.

Skylark Collaborator
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It can take some time for the autoimmunity to get going again. My reactions happen anywhere from 4-72 hours after eating gluten. I have sometimes eaten gluten by mistake with no symptoms at all. I ate two crackers recently and realized they tasted different, checked the label and I'd gotten the wrong ones and they had wheat. I braced for a bad night and nothing happened at all. In contrast, I've eaten potato skins out of a shared fryer and been up until 2am with severe D. It's not very consistent or predictable at all but my overall health is so much better off gluten that I avoid it 100%.

bman34 Newbie
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Hmm good news then. It's pretty disconcerting when you think you have an issue licked, but then you're back feeling like oh no it's happening again. It's a pretty big downer.

ravenwoodglass Mentor
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Yea for me the tummy issues usually show up 3 to 4 days later. I do have some signs before that like my arthritis flares and some stomach growling but the real 'bad' day takes a while to hit. Can make it tough to figure out what got us.

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