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What Is Your Reaction To Gluten?

T.H.

By T.H.
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My reactions typically happen days later after I have ingested gluten.

I will get all of a sudden very bloated, with the feeling of trapped gas and constipation. My fingers start to tingle and that brings an increased heart rate and anxiety. I have occasionally felt very faint and felt like I couldn't catch my breath almost mimicking an asthma attack. I also will have excessive burping and acid reflux. The initial attack is very scary, feeling like I can't breathe and the pins and needles sensations.

After those symptoms subside, I usually am still bloated, constipated, and have acid reflux/chest pain for the next few days. 

I have yet to figure out how to help my symptoms or stop the anxiety/asthma attacks when this happens. Definitely a freaky feeling!

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Wow, that's a scary one! You know, it's things like this - the really bad reactions to gluten that are strange and unusual but potentially deadly - that make the idea of a gluten challenge to ge

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I know that we celiacs often have other sensitivities/allergies, and as a sensitive celiac, a lot of times I've been told that I'm likely reacting to something else and thinking it's gluten. Because a

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Just to make matters confusing, my reactions have changed over time. Gluten used to equal diarrhea, bloating, insomnia, vaso-vagal syncope - now it's nausea and retching. Lactose was diarrhea, stoma

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