Noobette

I’m pretty sure I don’t have a flu or bug, since I don’t have nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, malaise, or body aches. Just this damn pressure and bloating! I’m feeling quite a bit better the last couple of days, though - maybe it was the L-glutamine I started taking, or just time. i already eat a low-carb primal (paleo + dairy) diet, so pretty much no...

I got glutened at a restaurant two weeks ago - I ate half a flour tortilla. This was the first time I’ve had a sizable gluten exposure since my diagnosis a couple of years ago. The other times I’ve accidentally eaten gluten (that I know of) was in small amounts (a few baked potato chips one time; salad dressing another time) and I had no symptoms. I was...

Thank you @Megamaniac - I don't hear about chest tightness as a symptom of being glutened, so it's good to hear of someone else. My current symptoms aren't bad, just annoying. It's hard to tell if it's anxiety tightening my chest, or something else. But since it's only been happening since I ate that damn tortilla, my guess is it's gluten-related. My doctor...

About 10 days ago I think I ate most of a wheat tortilla (the restaurant stuck to their story that it was a corn tortilla like I had ordered, but I don't believe them - I'm pretty sure it was wheat). Nothing happened in the first couple of days, then I developed intermittent chest tightness, which was one of my primary symptoms before my diagnosis, the others...

I had 23andme testing which showed I have genes DQ2.5 and DQ8. When I learned this I decided to stop eating gluten to PREVENT getting celiac, but didn't worry about cross-contamination. A year later I got sick, and eventually had an endoscopy which showed Marsh 1. My blood tests were negative, as one would expect for anyone eating gluten-free. My gastroenterologist...

The beginning of your story sounds very much like mine. I stopped eating gluten regularly when I adopted a mostly paleo diet years ago (bonus: my lifelong canker sores disappeared!). When I got 23andme testing done and learned I have both high-risk celiac genes, I stopped eating gluten altogether, thinking I couldn't trigger celiac if I didn't have gluten...

I love Aroy-D coconut milk, although I use the canned kind. There are no ingredients which could contain gluten, so I feel very safe eating it - and I eat a lot of it. I'm not home so I can't check the label to see if it says "gluten-free" anywhere, but I certainly consider it safe.

Cindy's Kitchen of Brockton - I've never seen this brand before. It contains soy sauce - not something I expect to see in balsamic vinaigrette!

I would never have known the dressing contained wheat, except that my nephew really liked the dressing, found it at the store after lunch, bought it, and brought it home. I would also think balsamic vinaigrette would be pretty darned safe. Goes to show we have to be constantly vigilant.

I am in a very similar situation. I tested positive for two of the celiac genes (2.5 & 8, IIRC), and stopped eating gluten proactively even though I wasn't having symptoms (that I recognized, anyway). However, I didn't separate stuff in my kitchen or worry about cross-contamination. I got sick a while later and eventually had an endoscopy which showed...

I went to a big lunch yesterday at a distant cousin's house who I barely know. I really hate making food restrictions an issue in situations like that, so I usually eat sparingly and selectively instead of asking lots of questions and drawing attention to myself. The salad had dressing on it already, but it wasn't a creamy dressing so I made a calculated...

It sounds like you're past the experimental phase, but just in case… did you use gluten-free oat flour in your "control" spice mix? If it wasn't gluten-free that could confound your results.

One of my only symptoms before going gluten-free was painful canker sores in my mouth, which I now get very rarely. I was already gluten-free when I first got sick (I stopped eating gluten because I have the DQ2.5 and DQ8 genes), so was unable to get an official diagnosis. My bloodwork was normal, but my biopsy came back as Marsh 1. I was not willing to put...

The report states that everything appears normal on inspection, except you appeared to have duodenitis, which is inflammation of the uppermost section of the small intestine. Duodenitis is a very common finding and could be due to a variety of causes. You had biopsies taken of multiple areas, so when those results come back you will have an additional report...

I am in a sort-of similar situation. I cut out MOST gluten several years ago when I started eating a paleo diet for general health reasons. My join pain and canker sores quickly went away. I was not strict and continued to eat wheat maybe once a month. Then I got genetic testing though 23andme and found I had both DQ2.5 and DQ8. This was a surprise, since...