Glutened... How Long Do Your Symptoms Last?

[alissar]

I was just wondering how long your symptoms last after you get glutened? I am still trying to get to the bottom of some of my symptoms and I feel like it takes a good 2 weeks for them to go away after eating gluten. For example, I am swollen for two weeks after I eat even small amounts of gluten. D doesn't normally happen for a couple of days. Do your symptoms last that long? Thanks in advance!

[ravenwoodglass]

It usually takes me about 3 weeks to get over a glutening. Like you the D doesn't hit until 2 or 3 days later and that is generally gone in a day but other stuff like brain fog, joint and muscle pain etc last for a bit.

[Gluten Glutton]

I've only been gluten-free for three months, and am currently dealing with my first glutened experience. Fun times!

I just found out the cereal I've been eating now has "natural malt flavour" at the very bottom of the ingredients list. Oops. I swear it didn't the first time I read the ingredients and that they added it in between the first and second box I purchased. At any rate, I started getting symptoms a day or two after my first bowl from box #2 and had no idea why my body was reacting again. I stopped eating it on Friday of last week and my gut/bowel symptoms are just starting to get a little better again. I now have the joint aches, which was a key symptom when I was eating gluten and my only major symptom of withdrawal when I went gluten-free. I'm hoping this means the last of it is on its way out. Fingers crossed!