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  1. CGally81
    Actually, I didn't change my food at all, as far as I can tell. How long has it been that your body won't send out hungry signals? I think there's more than one kind of hungry signal, so it might have been sending out a different kind. Like, today I ate at 12:30pm, and also "bathroomed" an hour later in a big way - twice in a row. I'm starting to feel...
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    Okay, I went gluten-free on August 6, and shortly afterwards, the withdrawal symptoms, intense hunger in particular, set in. For nearly a week I had to eat like every 1-2 hours, then it got down to every 2 hours, including 2 evening snacks and something big before or during bedtime (or else I wouldn't be able to sleep), and eventually got down to 1 evening...
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    Had symptoms for 5 months, went gluten free in early August, and it's been nearly 2 months. I'm still going through withdrawal symptoms. Muscle twitches, but they're not as bad as they were before, and the tingling and itchiness came and went, but what's still there, though it's gradually getting better, is the hunger. Yes, I have to eat a lot. It started...
  4. CGally81
    That sounds like what I was like the first two weeks of going gluten free! Hungry ALL the time, getting weak and shaking if I didn't eat enough (and "enough" meant a lot of food), etc. After having to eat like every hour or so, it got to the point where I had to eat like every 2, and but this time, I'm now at the point where I have to eat 6 medium to large...
  5. CGally81
    I didn't have the twitching when glutened, but started getting it after going gluten-free. However, it's been almost 2 months now since I went gluten-free, and the twitching is far far reduced over what it was before. In fact, it's like 80% gone. It comes from time to time in a mild form, as a mild irritant but nothing worse. Going only from my own experience...
  6. CGally81
    My gut is starting to stick out. I'm still a size 30but I'm not happy about this development. Is that what happened to you as well? Once my hunger gets back to normal, I imagine it might go down as long as I continue to eat healthy. Still, I am not liking this gut. I had a flatter stomach when I was losing all that weight, but even though I am putting on...
  7. CGally81
    Okay, a little background. For over a year, I'd been trying to lose weight so I don't end up like my dad, who is diabetic and very visibly overweight. My eating habits hadn't been too great - and neither had my weightloss habits (I tried "not eating enough" instead of "replacing foods with healthier ones" for a while, and suffered horribly for it). Well,...
  8. CGally81
    That is very strange. Fruit is said to be food that fills you up. Anyway, the hunger I'm talking about would occur within say, 1 minute of eating it. Maybe 5 at the most. And it's intense, as if the fruit caused additional hunger, and I'm talking cravings for sugar, plus stomach noises. Anyway, I'd had that problem since last year, but today, after not...
  9. CGally81
    Since one of my symptoms is becoming hungry from it, what I did was I'd grab other food. I noticed that certain food tended to reduce the symptoms faster than other food. A certain brand of popcorn (Herr's) did it for some reason, as did M&Ms. Other food didn't have as much of an effect. And I'm talking about it helping the neuro symptoms (brain frog...
  10. CGally81
    Last year, while trying to eat healthier, I introduced apples to my diet. Apples taste great, and I like them, but over time, they started to somehow make me very hungry shortly after eating them. A quick search on Google for "apples make me hungry" confirmed many other people have the problem, but they didn't know why. Fructose malabsorption (or intolerance...
  11. CGally81
    Now, you say you're "still" eating every couple of hours, so I have a few questions to ask you. How long did you have gluten intolerance symptoms before you went gluten-free? And how long have you been gluten-free? The reason I ask is because people have said that they've had the hunger problem for months or in some cases years before they went down to...
  12. CGally81
    Are you still in the high hunger phase? I see that you've been gluten-free since April, whereas I'd been since early August (well, plus two accidental glutenings in that same month), but this was after having had very noticable side effects for 5 months before. How long did you have gluten-related side effects (i.e. brain fog, weakness, stomach rumblings...
  13. CGally81
    I gave the bland rice as an example of what I was eating at the time. Nowadays, I do get a lot of protein. Turkey lunch meat (gluten-free) for a big chunk of breakfast, and peanut butter, and sometimes tuna fish or bananas along with it. That's a lot of protein. For breakfast. And yet I'm hungry before 10 AM. I often have two bananas by then. Lunch...
  14. CGally81
    I first went gluten-free near the beginning of August. Since then, only two accidental glutenings - one a week after I started going gluten-free (it was in frosting on what were otherwise gluten-free cupcakes), and one 2 weeks after (fish cooked in crackers. Oops). Anyway, a few days after I went gluten-free, I became super hungry. I'm talking, I'd eat...
  15. CGally81
    I have good news. The muscle twitches/spasms are becoming less common, and the "sensitive skin around middle-upper chest area" problem kinda comes and goes varyingly. It's not AS bad as before. I think things may be getting better. The tingling and itchiness are like 90% gone, and sometimes come in mild, more temporary forms. I do think that this may...
  16. CGally81
    Cleansing? Nothing to deal with parasites. Oh yeah, I also wake up early too. That's my other symptom. I'm hoping that'll go away with time also.
  17. CGally81
    Okay, I had started taking a few sublingual B12s, but stopped because I wanted everything to be "normal" (i.e. at whatever they'd be at naturally) in time for my blood test. But since there's no upper limit on how much B12 one can take, I think I might as well go back to it. So, you think it's still nerve-related and not related to withdrawal? My...
  18. CGally81
    Update. The tingling and itchiness has mostly gone away (I occasionally get very mild forms of it, but it's 95% gone). However, I have the annoying feeling of my skin being very sensitive, mostly on the mid to upper chest area. As in, I can feel my clothes through it. I also get muscle twitches. Is this still part of withdrawal? I took a very comprehensive...
  19. CGally81
    I'd read in the book "Going Gluten-Free For Dummies", and MANY places online, that there is a strong chance of a false negative when it comes to tests for gluten intolerance. Furthermore, the longer you'd been going gluten-free before taking the test, the greater the chance of it turning up negative, especially if it's a gastroenterologist's test rather than...
  20. CGally81
    I'm really hoping my detox symptoms, which have gotten pretty nasty in the past week or so (but are also somewhat dying down, thankfully), go away soon. Along with the super hunger, but that actually is noticably (slowly) decreasing too. Anyway, before I went gluten-free, or figured out what was up with tons of internet searches and self-diagnosis, I had...
  21. CGally81
    Nope, no nerve pains or extreme joint cracking. How long did you have GI symptoms before you found out what was causing it? For me it was something like maybe ~5 months. Did you have it for a long time?
  22. CGally81
    Thanks for the comments everyone. If you have more experiences to share, please do! Since you're also 28, I got a question for you. When did you first start having the GI symptoms in the first place? For me, it was early this year, maybe March or so, but I can't pinpoint. I do know it wasn't last year, as I distinctly remember feeling perfectly...
  23. CGally81
    That would not explain it. In fact, many of these symptoms are said to be similar to low magnesium. How I could have had low magnesium in high school but not afterwards, but suffer from it now (well, the gluten intolerance I supposed, combined with the increased hunger afterwards making my body want more? I dunno), is something I don't get.
  24. CGally81
    I'm 28. Self-diagnosed early August after several months worth of symptoms, and started going gluten-free. Saw the symptoms of gluten intolerance (fogged head, depression, inability to concentrate, the gastro stuff, etc.) disappear. And they're still gone. But something else that's rather disturbing and scary has shown up. When I was in high school...
  25. CGally81
    Could it be sodium/potassium problems? I had also been eating gluten-free Chex, which is high in sodium, and I'd been eating a lot of it (it's high in many nutrients too). I didn't have any yesterday, and the symptoms got better. You think I might have too much sodium/not enough potassium in me?
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