Can l-glutamine make you worse?

I just started l-glutamine powder last week and the past few days my symptoms have been much worse. I'm wondering if this could be due to the l-glutamine, or should I be looking for another culprit? Has anyone experienced this?

Sure it can make you worse. All IBD'rs are known to have a bacterial imbalance in their guts but the only consistant thing is that every imbalance is different in every person. Sounds like your imbalance doesn't like l-glutamine. Maybe you can research and find the exact opposite of l-glutamine and try that and see what happens. That's why there really isn't a UC diet. One diet helps one person while the same diet makes someone else worse. That's one reason why docs really don't want to get involved with diets, because they would have no idea what diet to tell what patient might help them.

Thanks. It constipated me the first day, then I tried taking with food and no constipation but continued getting worse over a few days. I also had a really bad headache which is finally gone now that I stopped the stuff. I wonder what the opposite of L-Glutamine would be?

This is the one I took: http://www.naturalfactors.com/caen/products/detail/5972/l-glutamine-micronized

I think it's considered good quality?

Yes.

Thanks oolyooly. At this point I don't think I'll be trying l-glutamine again, I just can't believe how quickly I went from feeling pretty good to such a bad flare. I just hope it doesn't last long. :(

In your case, if you think something sets you off just stay away in future.

Hopefully if its just the glutamine that has set you off, you will be out of the flare in no time.

good luck!