I subscribe to the Digestive Health Smart Brief and yesterday it had a link to an interesting article. For the last three years I've been trying to figure out whether gluten is my trigger or not. I've never been on a gluten free diet long enough to figure it out, though (the most I've done was four months). However, I have been gluten light for the most part of last year, sometimes I ate gluten and sometimes I was strictly GF, but these usually changed pretty often.
I found a new gastroenterologist and after testing positive on the celiac gene test, she wants to do the endoscopy. So I have been eating lots of gluten on a daily basis for the past two weeks and the results are already amazing. I feel so bad that it's really noticeable. I am much more bloated than before, never have a flat stomach (before I had it in the morning/am), my C turned into a D in the last couple days. The gas is awful and so painful. I get dizzy spells that freak me out if I get them right before driving. I also feel incredibly tired, even my husband noticed yesterday how tired I looked. I started having menstrual problems. I have that full/blah feeling that I almost forgot about in the previous couple weeks.
So, like I said, it's really noticeable for me because I was eating strictly GF (no cheating, read labels like crazy) for about two weeks right before the new GI doc told me this. And then the switch to a good amount of gluten made such a difference. I can't wait to go back to GF and see if and how quickly my symptoms would go away.
I also want to add that adding gluten was the only thing I changed, and I only added foods that would be "safe" - fresh bread, homemade low-fat deserts, etc.
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Gluten sensitivity in non-celiac patients
