Made Myself Sick, I think I'm allergic to gluten

JoJo__Fit
JoJo__Fit Posts: 258 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I've been off and on my eating patterns since the holidays. I consume 2100 calories a day, I'm maintaining while, lifting 5 x's a week and doing cardio 3x's a week.
Before the holidays, I cooked all my meals and was consuming 1600-1800 calories while lifting no cardio.

Today I offically made myself sick. After eating pizza I was done. My stomach is bloated to the max, for the past 4 hours, I keep throwing up and the other symptoms I'm kind of having are like Crohn's disease. I started to drink water but my body can't absorb it in, I just threw it up.

Now i'm scared to eat anything.

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  • stonel94
    stonel94 Posts: 550 Member
    so try stop eating gluten for a week and see if you feel better
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    Stomach flu is more likely, poor thing. I hope you feel better soon! :flowerforyou:
  • FlaxMilk
    FlaxMilk Posts: 3,452 Member
    so try stop eating gluten for a week and see if you feel better

    No, don't do that. If you really feel you have a gluten issue, see your doctor for testing. The tests aren't accurate once you stop eating gluten, and to get them, you have to eat gluten again.
  • devil_in_a_blue_dress
    devil_in_a_blue_dress Posts: 5,214 Member
    Um, this a one time thing? Probs just sick.

    If ongoing, see a doctor.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    It's quite possible that you just caught a bug (gastroenteritis).
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
    By symptoms I take it you mean sickness, cramping & diarrhoea? If you mean blood in your bowel movement? (Crohn's disease symptom) Then you need to get that checked out.

    Other than that it may just be your body is reacting because you haven't eaten it in a while. Give it 24hrs.
  • JoJo__Fit
    JoJo__Fit Posts: 258 Member
    Thanks, going to go see my doctor :)
  • Mr_Bad_Example
    Mr_Bad_Example Posts: 2,403 Member
    I've been off and on my eating patterns since the holidays. I consume 2100 calories a day, I'm maintaining while, lifting 5 x's a week and doing cardio 3x's a week.
    Before the holidays, I cooked all my meals and was consuming 1600-1800 calories while lifting no cardio.

    Today I offically made myself sick. After eating pizza I was done. My stomach is bloated to the max, for the past 4 hours, I keep throwing up and the other symptoms I'm kind of having are like Crohn's disease. I started to drink water but my body can't absorb it in, I just threw it up.

    Now i'm scared to eat anything.

    Googling symptoms to see what kind of whacked out disease you probably don't have is usually never a good idea.

    My advice? Get better pizza and stay away from sick folks for a while.
  • newlife888
    newlife888 Posts: 83 Member
    Could be a reaction to dairy. Lactose intolerance is much more common than gluten intolerance. Glad you are going to the doctor. Feel better!
  • marie5282
    marie5282 Posts: 61 Member
    Googling symptoms to see what kind of whacked out disease you probably don't have is usually never a good idea.

    My advice? Get better pizza and stay away from sick folks for a while.

    Agree with above. The stomach bug is going around like crazy. If this is a relatively sudden thing, that's what it probably is. Otherwise, it needs to be discussed/diagnosed with your doctor. Gluten could be the culprit, but I'd still recommend seeing your doctor. Google and WebMD can be dangerous!
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    It's quite possible that you just caught a bug (gastroenteritis).
    This. From my understanding, Crohn's Disease doesn't just suddenly pop up from eating pizza once. It's an ongoing chronic thing.
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    so try stop eating gluten for a week and see if you feel better

    Seems like you are "jumping to conclusions"



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  • jayjrf
    jayjrf Posts: 25
    Look,

    Could be gluten...
    Could be acid from tomatoes...
    Could be cheese...
    Could be animal fats...

    Gal Bladder or Pancreas could be...
  • Mof3wc
    Mof3wc Posts: 126 Member
    It's quite possible that you just caught a bug (gastroenteritis).
    This. From my understanding, Crohn's Disease doesn't just suddenly pop up from eating pizza once. It's an ongoing chronic thing.


    Um, yeah. Pretty sure you can't diagnose yourself with Crohn's disease from eat pizza, and believe me, I know from experience.

    Did you maybe mean Celiac disease? That's related to gluten. Not Crohn's.
  • elmr34
    elmr34 Posts: 32 Member
    Sounds like food poisoning, indigestion, overeating or even a 24 hour flu bug to me! I had food poisoning about a month ago- ate lunch (at a food stand at a work conference- yuck) and about 3 hours later I became extremely nauseous, weak/shaky, sweaty/clammy, just terribly feeling. Threw up and still felt nauseous and crappy. Didn't eat the rest of the night, felt completely fine the next morning.

    Crohn's and Celiac disease (and the MANY MANY other GI diseases) are difficult to diagnose. My sister has been going through months and months of nausea, diarrhea, and various other symptoms- she has been to multiple doctors and done lots of tests to figure out what is going on. It isn't as simple as -I feel sick, I must have Crohn's disease.

    Also, a week of not eating gluten might make all problems from Celiac disease go away. When you have Celiac disease eating gluten can permanently damage the intestines so it can take months for symptoms to go away after you quit eating gluten. If you think you have a GI condition then start keeping a food diary and see a GI specialist. Don't diagnose yourself.
  • lynn1982
    lynn1982 Posts: 1,439 Member
    Did this just start with the pizza? If so, it sounds more like food poisoning to me... if it were a gluten intolerance (or any other food intolerance), you'd have these symptoms to some degree every time you ate them.
  • goku89
    goku89 Posts: 160
    i avoid gluten on work days because it makes me foggy headed and tired and irritable. i hope its not celiac disease, i've always had a pretty crazy reaction to certain foods since i was a kid.
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    Food poisoning is actually pretty rare. What most attribute to food poisoning is most likely a stomach bug. I have had several doctors tell me this.*

    *Have no scientific research to back it up at this time. :smile:
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    I actually had the same thing happen.
    There are just to many variables to home in on one thing. I even have a history now of cieliac in my family,

    I ate pizza with chicken/cheese/peppers on it. along with parmisian breadsticks from pappa johns.

    my abdomen felt horrible, bloated and sharp pains for about 3-4 hours. I just laid down and threw up twice. I managed to go to sleep after that. Keep track of what you eat. I'm going to guess it was bad chicken, but it could be the gluten.

    The first test for celiac is a blood test. Then you have to eat gluten for a week, then not each gluten for a week. (something like that) Then its a biopsy of your intestine.

    I'd go for trying no gluten, then trying a ton and see what happens. good luck.
  • CLFrancois
    CLFrancois Posts: 472 Member
    There is no harm in eliminating certain foods for a week or two to find out if you feel better. Just do not use that alone as your diagnoses.
    Doctors, even more- specialists, cost a lot of money. I don't have a money tree growing, so I can say from my own experience, and my Allergist, that it is ok to try to figure some things out on our own and go into the doc with more information.
    Otherwise, you go in wailing about this and that, they will run those tests and it will be thousands.
    Blood *and* biopsy to be certain it's not celiacs, in my area it costs 3k for the biopsy.
    More than likely it is a bug you have.
  • DorothyR87
    DorothyR87 Posts: 113
    I am gluten intolerant and for me before I removed gluten from my diet it was a lifetime of feeling like crap (diarrhea, nausea, fatigue). If you haven't consistently exhibited those symptoms after eating gluten for awhile, then I wouldn't really think it was related to gluten.
  • FlaxMilk
    FlaxMilk Posts: 3,452 Member
    OP removing gluten for a week while she also possibly has a stomach bug isn't going to tell her anything. If she doesn't have the money for the tests, she and her doctor can discuss an actual plan for an elimination diet. Self-diagnosis is very discouraged for a lot of reasons in the Celiac's world. (No money tree here, either.)

    OP, a doctor also likely won't prescribe these tests based on a single episode, but we don't know your medical history.
  • rprussell2004
    rprussell2004 Posts: 870 Member
    I looked up your symptoms on WebMD.

    I'm sorry to report, you have cancer.
  • JoJo__Fit
    JoJo__Fit Posts: 258 Member
    I looked up your symptoms on WebMD.

    I'm sorry to report, you have cancer.

    Im sorry to report you look like an idiot
  • wilsoje74
    wilsoje74 Posts: 1,720 Member
    I think you are just sick, I'm sure is a stomach virus and you'll be fine.

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