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I am 6 days gluten free. I must say my brain fog is better but I am having trouble sleeping. I go to sleep rather easy but I am waking up around 4 or 5 am the last few mornings a cant go back to sleep. I must say one of my main symptoms of celiac disease was fatigue as I could and would sleep about 12 to 14 hours a day. Please tell me this gets better!! But on a good note I have been told by a few people that I have more coloring in my face.


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Yes it does get better. In the early days I was waking up that early because I was "starving". I ate like crazy for the first 6 weeks. My body was playing catch up. I sleep great now!

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Yes it does get better. In the early days I was waking up that early because I was "starving". I ate like crazy for the first 6 weeks. My body was playing catch up. I sleep great now!

Shay,

Kind of off track from the original post, but I saw that you recently became corn free, grain free...etc. What made you decide to do this? Did you get tested? I have been tested through enterolab and came back positive for gluten, dairy, and soy. I am wondering if there are more things since the test only included gluten, dairy, soy, egg, and yeast. I have been feeling better, but not all the way better. I still take excedrine several times a week, still get really tired, still feel nauseas some of the time.

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Over time you just realize what bothers you and you cut them out. I have been corn free for years. It always bothered me. I recently tried adding some back in. It still affects my blood sugar but no other symptoms. I am trying to keep my BS stable, so I wont eat it often...hardly ever...if at all. I dont need it in my diet. I cut out the grains because in general I do not tolerate starchy carbs very well. It really messes with my BS and I get digestive symptoms. The SCD diet is what I eventually adopted because it is what I am basically eating/not eating anyway.

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I am 6 days gluten free. I must say my brain fog is better but I am having trouble sleeping. I go to sleep rather easy but I am waking up around 4 or 5 am the last few mornings a cant go back to sleep. I must say one of my main symptoms of celiac disease was fatigue as I could and would sleep about 12 to 14 hours a day. Please tell me this gets better!! But on a good note I have been told by a few people that I have more coloring in my face.

It should resolve soon. One thing that may be going on is that gluten was a neurotoxin for you. Your brain got used to having it's own gluten supplied drug stash, so to speak, and now it has to learn how to sleep without the soporific effect of the gluten. For most this should resolve within a couple of weeks at the most. As long as you don't regluten.

Puddy Explorer

Yes, the same thing happened to me. The first 6-8 weeks I was gluten-free I woke up at 4AM every day! It was driving me crazy, but it gradually stopped happening and now I get a full night's sleep.

Mtndog Collaborator

it happened to me as well and eventually got better. Hang in there- up from here!!!!


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Yup; me too. Now I'm back to sleeping like the dead.

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