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Posted 10/13/2012 5:32 PM (GMT 0)
I wanted to make it a good night in with a few friends and my options of gluten free beer were limited at the convenience store, with Woodchuck's Hard Cider. Blugh. So I got a 6 pack of Yuengling. Drinking was fine, then gas hit me a little bit. Then we decided to go to a diner for some food. The bacon and cheese biscuit was eyeing me. So I got it. And it was delicious! After, I was okay, but with come-and-go stomach pain. And then, this morning was terrible. Blood in stool, on tissue and broken stool. Oy. I swear, I can't do gluten, but I still insist on testing myself. Moral of my story: NO GLUTEN! HAPPY TUMMY! :)
Posted 10/14/2012 3:46 PM (GMT 0)
how can you blame just the gluten - any of those things would give me a blast from my ast - the combo would be down right deadly -
Posted 10/15/2012 1:12 AM (GMT 0)
I had 4 Yuengling beers and a bacon/cheese biscuit. I've been to this diner before and had food (GF) without any problems. That's the most gluten I've had in a while, but I will definitely not be doing it again. I've had little come-and-go pains these past two days now, and blood in stool. I definitely think its gluten. =/
Posted 10/15/2012 2:07 AM (GMT 0)
...or maybe it was the beer.  Or maybe it was the Cheese & bacon.  Or maybe it was the Beer AND the cheese & bacon. 

or maybe it was the gluten in the biscuit.

Or maybe it was soemthing else.


I guess what soystud was meaning (and i agree) without knowing all your background etc.  Is that a lot of those foods/drinks are potentially troublesome for UCers so if you hadn't had any of them for a while to single out the Gluten alone is not really a good conclusive test.

Usually if you want to 'test' a food is to keep everything else the same and then add in a little bit of what you're testing, then do it again in a few days with a bit more etc. 

 

Posted 10/15/2012 2:17 AM (GMT 0)
I understand what you are saying. However, I started grad school in sept and have been going out once a week to bars that serve gluten free beers, and I haven't come across any issues. If anything is wrong with my bowels or stomach its usually from potatoes or sugar. I eat bacon and cheese moderately so I don't believe this could be it.

This is probably the 3rd time in a year I've tested gluten, and this is a similar reaction to all of the others, I'd say. :)
Posted 10/15/2012 2:22 AM (GMT 0)
ah well in that case sounds like you're right. I didn't know your context. How long does it take to return to normal? and have you been folowing your candida control diet lately?
Posted 10/15/2012 4:00 AM (GMT 0)
You know that wine and vodka tequila are gluten free too? :-) Can't help you with the biscuit. I find that when my desire is very strong I can have one single bite of a gluten-rich food and that is enough to satisfy me and not enough to make me ill.
Posted 10/15/2012 5:07 AM (GMT 0)
stereo- are you grain free normally? or gluten free? For some reason I thought you did scd diet normally.

kazbern- I see you take flaxseed oil, is that taken as a supplement? is it pretty helpful?
Posted 10/15/2012 11:37 AM (GMT 0)
stereo,

What's the reason behind your wanting the testing?

Is it to see if they qualify you "officially" as gluten allergic (celiac) vs. gluten intolerant? The tests can prove false negatives, and false positives too. I was tested and showed no problems, yet gluten is a big offender.

Did you ever try the gluten fix remedy?

Whenever I want to cheat with either gluten or dairy, I take 4 capsules after the cheat meal, and have no issues at all.

I do cheat with pizza, ice cream cones every 2 weeks or so.

It might work for you as well.

Posted 10/15/2012 12:00 PM (GMT 0)
Then we decided to go to a diner for some food. The bacon and cheese biscuit was eyeing me. So I got it. And it was delicious!

I've been through this good cop/bad cop with my brain and it is a fascinating experience. My gut knows certain foods are bad news and will produce bad results but the brain wants what it wants and it takes quite a bit of willpower to resist. My brain particularly wants caffeine such as coffee and chocolate as well as sugar in any form especially ice cream.

Some days it takes a will of steel to resist and some days the brain wins and gets the stimulants it wants and the gut goes along for the (bumpy) ride.

You and I are "lucky" because we know what our harmful foods are, we've identified them by testing. So much better than not knowing.

I recently did a little test with milk because my symptoms are almost non-existent. I drank 3-4 oz. before bed. Problems? Yes, my gut let me know the next morning that it still cannot tolerate something in milk. Results= multiple BM's, basically eliminating it from my body. No D just many, many trips to the toilet.

Our poor guts are at the mercy of our brain who makes all the decisions.
Posted 10/15/2012 1:08 PM (GMT 0)
For sure if I eat a lot of gluten there will be problems. Even a small amount over a couple of instances is bad. But at least I can have ONE slice of bread or some other small amount of gluten and get away with it. Same with one glass of beer.

What drives me crazy is that I am also allergic to kelp and shellfish, but with those foods I am talking MILLIGRAMS. Just one capsule containing a few milligrams of glucosamine (for joints) that is derived from shellfish will produce bloody diarrhea. Or one multivitamin with only a minute amount of iodine derived from kelp does the same. Almost as bad with cruciferous vegetables. A partial serving of kale or broccoli will also do me in.
Posted 10/15/2012 3:31 PM (GMT 0)
excellent point ima - so glad God gave me a brain - wish i used it more :-)
Posted 10/16/2012 2:06 AM (GMT 0)
Jimbo, I've been off the candida diet since August, just finished my supplements, and besides having gluten the other night, i'm doing okay. It's a tough call. If I eliminate grains and sugar for a whole day, I make one or two perfect bathroom trips. That's what i'm working on right now, is lowering the amount of grains/sugar I eat.

Kazbern I thought vodka was distilled from grains?

Chrissy i'm gluten free, but i used to be on the SCD diet. Never did the intro though, just avoided everything it said on the illegal list. How are you doing with it?
Posted 10/16/2012 2:10 AM (GMT 0)
InSoFla, I can't help but make these tiny mistakes. I could retrace my steps to that night, when my two friends and I were taking too long deciding on beers at the store, and I put back the GF Redbridge and got a pack of Yuengling. The reining topic of this thread should be "Another Glutenous Experiment Gone Wrong".

I did finally get the Gluten fix in the mail! ..right when I moved down south. My mom should be sending it out now, and I'll let you know how it goes asap. Sounds like you can do well on it...

Imagardener, I get that completely! And you think the brain would get slapped the same way our stomachs do when we give in. :(
Posted 10/16/2012 3:24 PM (GMT 0)
Stereo, vodka can be distilled from many things, but some traditional Russian vodka is made from potatoes. And don't forget about sake, made from rice!
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