Giving up gluten

[Anonymous]

If gluten is indeed the source of your problems, how long did it take to feel better after cutting it out?

[Anonymous]

Depends if you are actually Celiac or not. If you have Celiac Disease and have intestinal damage it may take up to year to heal.

If its just a gluten intolerance it would probably be pretty immediate.

Of course that is assuming that Gluten is the true source (i.e. it could be a intolerance to dairy, FODMAP, etc.) in which case an elimination diet may help.

[Anonymous]

I definitely do not have celiac but the first week I cut out gluten I did notice I had a LOT more energy. Usually I’m exhausted by the time I finish putting my kids to bed—and for the first time I was wide awake at 9:00pm. I was also super hungry that week.

[Anonymous]

Thanks. Op here. I don't suspect celiac. I have random inflammation that I'm hoping to manage. I'm working on acidic food now but not noticing a change. I'm giving that a few weeks and trying to figure out what to try next.

[Anonymous]

Following my physician’s advice to eliminate gluten to see if this was a contributing factor in my chronic migraines,
I felt better within one week. I am not celiac. That was five years ago that I went GF.

Migraines gone.

[Anonymous]

11:35 should add that I eliminated gluten, dairy and soy.

Never gone back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks. Op here. I don't suspect celiac. I have random inflammation that I'm hoping to manage. I'm working on acidic food now but not noticing a change. I'm giving that a few weeks and trying to figure out what to try next.

Before giving up gluten, standard recommendation is to get tested for celiac; the symptoms can be unclear (any combo of ~200 symptoms or none at all, https://celiac.org/about-celiac-disease/symptoms-of-celiac-disease/), so even if you don't suspect it because you don't have obvious GI symptoms, it's worth asking about a blood screen first. The reason is that if you do go GF, and it makes you feel better, it will be difficult to later assess whether or not it's due to celiac bc all the tests require the person to be ingesting gluten at the time - which would mean going back to feeling bad or worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks. Op here. I don't suspect celiac. I have random inflammation that I'm hoping to manage. I'm working on acidic food now but not noticing a change. I'm giving that a few weeks and trying to figure out what to try next.

Before giving up gluten, standard recommendation is to get tested for celiac; the symptoms can be unclear (any combo of ~200 symptoms or none at all, https://celiac.org/about-celiac-disease/symptoms-of-celiac-disease/), so even if you don't suspect it because you don't have obvious GI symptoms, it's worth asking about a blood screen first. The reason is that if you do go GF, and it makes you feel better, it will be difficult to later assess whether or not it's due to celiac bc all the tests require the person to be ingesting gluten at the time - which would mean going back to feeling bad or worse.

This is a good idea. My daughter is lactose intolerant, gluten sensitive, and has IBS. After several very painful flare ups, she went gluten free and also eliminated all high FODMAP foods. It’s been 9 months since she went completely gluten free. She feels so much better and the flare ups are far and few between. Her skin is healthier as well. She used to suffer from painful acne and that is also a thing of the past. Testing for Celiac would require her to have gluten in her body for several weeks. She says there is absolutely no way she will consume gluten because she knows all too well the pain it will bring. If you can get tested now, do that so have a more definitive diagnosis. If it comes back negative, go ahead and start the elimination process and see how you feel.

You may also want to look into FODMAP friendly foods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks. Op here. I don't suspect celiac. I have random inflammation that I'm hoping to manage. I'm working on acidic food now but not noticing a change. I'm giving that a few weeks and trying to figure out what to try next.

Before giving up gluten, standard recommendation is to get tested for celiac; the symptoms can be unclear (any combo of ~200 symptoms or none at all, https://celiac.org/about-celiac-disease/symptoms-of-celiac-disease/), so even if you don't suspect it because you don't have obvious GI symptoms, it's worth asking about a blood screen first. The reason is that if you do go GF, and it makes you feel better, it will be difficult to later assess whether or not it's due to celiac bc all the tests require the person to be ingesting gluten at the time - which would mean going back to feeling bad or worse.

Thanks, that's helpful. My doctors are less than helpful and they think they've tried everything so I'm doing a lot of trial and error ony own. They don't think it's diet related at all, but I figure it can't hurt to try things for a few weeks at a time. And I'm losing weight in the process which can't hurt!

[Anonymous]

It generally takes 30+ days for the gut microbiome to adjust fully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If gluten is indeed the source of your problems, how long did it take to feel better after cutting it out?

Aeter one week you shold start feeling less foggy brain

After two less fatigued all the time

After six weeks if done right you will feell way better then before and gluten should completly clear but then healing can begun.

For gluten free with the purpose of healing you need to be very dilligent and most people for this purpose go Clean Gluten Free option

That means no rocessed packaged foods as they may and usually do contain gluten even if it say GLUTEN Free.


Also many gluten free products contain other inflamatory replacements for gluten so all those gluten free items really not a god idea for trying to heal inflamations.

PS Many ingredirnts with Gum in the name are in the same class as gluten so if you want to do it right, one more thing to add,

Fubby thing about gluten free is that once you truly clean your body then if you eat something contaminated it will hit you within half hour to one hour with brain fog and will gradually wear off in one weak if you stick to the diet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks. Op here. I don't suspect celiac. I have random inflammation that I'm hoping to manage. I'm working on acidic food now but not noticing a change. I'm giving that a few weeks and trying to figure out what to try next.

Before giving up gluten, standard recommendation is to get tested for celiac; the symptoms can be unclear (any combo of ~200 symptoms or none at all, https://celiac.org/about-celiac-disease/symptoms-of-celiac-disease/), so even if you don't suspect it because you don't have obvious GI symptoms, it's worth asking about a blood screen first. The reason is that if you do go GF, and it makes you feel better, it will be difficult to later assess whether or not it's due to celiac bc all the tests require the person to be ingesting gluten at the time - which would mean going back to feeling bad or worse.

This is true and it happened to my DH—though he refused to go back on gluten just to receive confirmation. His symptoms are so obvious that he doesn’t care if some gastroenterologist didn’t get to verify. The truth for him
Is this: no gluten fine, accidental gluten = explosive diarrhea within 30 min, bad cramps, brain fog for at least 48 hours...who cares if it’s celiac or a bad intolerance? He has the genetic marker for celiac so he lives GF as best as he can. End of story.

[Anonymous]

Somehow I got in my head that going gf can lead to greater or more severe intolerance of wheat. Is this crazy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Somehow I got in my head that going gf can lead to greater or more severe intolerance of wheat. Is this crazy?

It's pretty common for people with celiac disease to reach much worse/more strongly to gluten once they've been on the GF diet for a while (meaning, more strongly than they used to react before they got diagnosed and went GF).

[Anonymous]

Not celiac I think but skin rashes cleared up, no acne, no explosive diarrhea, and regularity. After awhile I stopped having intenstinal pain. I hate when servers used to inquire why I was ordering and what happened if I ate gluten. I actually got to a point where I just looked point blank at them and said "diarrhea, and I don't want you to have to clean up after me."