I have similar issues. I was eventually diagnosed with Non Coeliac Gluten Intolerance- which basically means they accepted that my gluten-triggered issues were real, but they don't understand the underlying mechanism . I'd avise you to get the blood test for Coeliac disease,
before cutting gluten out of your die as it's unreliable afterwards. There are all sorts of advantages to having coeliac disease instead. The doctors tqake it more seriously, and you can get gluten free food on prescription if, and only if it's Coeliac Disease. The Non Coeliac version is just about identical in symptoms and prognosis, so, if it does turn out to be gluten-related , please take it seriously, and heed the advise to never touch gluten again, if you can avoid it. It can actually cause irreversible damage to the gut and the brain. Also, if you continue to trigger these reactions, you are in increasing damnger of developing a raft of additional allergies and other serious illnesses (up to and including cancer)
So, for moment , don't cut out the gluten. Get your GP to give you that blood test first. If it comes back negative, you can check if you are sensitive to gluten by cutting it out completely for a few weeks then reintroducing it. You can do the same with other suspects. There is a standard scientific method . Look it up!
Also bear in mind that cutting out gluten is not near so simple as just cutting out bread, cake and biscuits. Last I checked, about 95% of manufactured products containeed gluten. Just about all nreakfast cereals, including Rice Krispies, for instance (because the manufacturers add malt as as sweetener) ; oats (because they're grown along with wheat, and milled in the same equipment); most sauces and soups; vinegar, whiskey, vitamin tablets...in short, if you're going to successfully eradicate gluten from your diet, you need to educate yourself first!
Also keep a "food diary" , Religiously. (drinks too!) It's boring as fuck but can nbe invaluable in identifying the triggers,
and in convinvcing your doctors. My food reactions, for example, tend to occur about 5 hours after I;ve eaten (once it's making it's it's way through the gut) . That's not unusual. Chances are you've put more stuff in your system by then, and can't clearly recall what you had before. You can also get "repeat reactions" 24 hours later, for some mysterious reason. Without that diary such patterns are really hard to spot.
Most Coeliacs
can tolerate bread (though they shouldn't) , so this unending focus on bread leads to false optimism .
When my problemns started to become really evident I was fine with bread, but at the same time my home-made white sauces were blowing me up like a balloon! and causing intense pain in the regipn of my kidneys. My GP was deeply concerned, but that didn't help me get a diagnosis any time soon. I was just faced with a load of skepticism from various consultants because I had "too many symptoms for CD"
. They therefore dismissed it as "all in my mind")
I could go on and on . In my case I had an undiagnosed ubnderlying metabolic disorder , anyway, which almost certainly causes all those additional symptoms. The chances are, you'll be a little bit luckier,. I hope so
As for PG sensitivity: well, I have that as well, but it sets off my asthma, when Ii vape it. It doesn't affect my stomach. So I'll agree that's unlikely, but it's always worth bearing in mind. People with one sensitivity all too often have a whole raft of them.
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