Gluten free and bloating

[Karen154]

Anybody else experiencing bloating and painful trapped wind on gluten free diet.

I may have hash. So gluten free now for 4 months.

Gluten free pastry, bread, cereals are causing stomach pain, wind and diarrhea.

So sticking to eggs, veg, meat and fish. Also cut out vegetable oils and using butter and natural cooking fats. Use coconut oil occasionally. Rarely eat night shades.

Drink lots of boiled water and cut caffeine and milk down to very little.

Home made veg soups extra but even this is causing painful wind.

Thing is I was never like this before gluten free. But when I eat normal bread I get a scorching temperature in my hands and pins needle feeling in my hair. Brows lashes and scalp hair fall out.

I'm miserable with all this. Lol

[Fruitandnutcase]

Not as a rule - I’m ok with soups etc. However I absolutely love the Genius spiced fruit loaf and I find that and a lot of gluten free biscuits give me stomachache and I can feel quite sick after I eat them - it’s weird - so I tend to avoid them. I’m ok in most of the other stuff you have mentioned though.

[Karen154 in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

It is strange as its processed food with me. I'm thinking move the cornflour in high quantity could be as bad a wheat.

If I eat home made veg soup it bloats my stomach.

So difficult to eat.

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to Karen154]

It’s hard to tell, keep a food diary with comments in how you feel afterwards and don’t change to many things at once. That might help you figure out what the worst culprits are. Have you thought of signing up with CoeliacUK? You don’t need to be coeliac and it has a huge amount of information about gluten free foods. That might be useful too.

[Karen154 in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

Thank you for this information. I'll check it out. Xx

[jgelliss in reply to Karen154]

Have you tried taking digestive enzymes prior to your meals ? They are very helpful .

[Karen154 in reply to jgelliss]

Hi no I haven't. I've never heard of tthem. X

[jgelliss in reply to Karen154]

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[Karen154 in reply to jgelliss]

Many thanks

[bookish]

Absolutely! Corn was a big problem for me, also millet in bought GF cereal, even good 'GF' oats. Corn seems to be in everything and can cause as much villi damage as wheat. I believe many people get worse (coeliac or NCGS) when they go GF and start off using a lot of bought GF foods. I am now grain, dairy, soy, nightshade, caffeine, nut and seed free! Took ages to get corn out of my supplements etc. Still on eggs (which need to go, at least as a trial), fish, a little chicken, lots of veg and some fruit, coconut oil and olive oil, drinking fresh ginger in hot water. Long way to go but some things heaps better. Good luck.

[Karen154 in reply to bookish]

Thank you for this information. There's not much you can eat. Difficult to get away from soy as well. have to cook everything from scratch. I can't eat out at all, it's a nightmare.

How are you with maze starch. It's in all my medicine and recently had a flare up when I started hrt.

It's a nightmare. X

[bookish in reply to Karen154]

Hi, it is hard I agree. I never risk eating anything that anyone else has cooked anymore and don't eat out. Always cooking veg and take boxes out with me! I have issues with histamine too so can't eat leftovers/cook in batches.

Maize is corn, so no. (Conventional HRT may be a problem too as oestrogen dominance is a factor in thyroid disorders and many others. I was on transdermal bio-identical progesterone but the one I was using has corn-based ingredients which I started to react to, so looking for a better alternative.)

If you have a look at purehealthclinic.co.uk, Micki Rose has a huge amount about gluten disorders, coeliac and NCGS. I have The Gluten Plan - enormous book and well worth buying, but lots of free info on the site too. Tells you about cross-reactivity and testing etc. (If you react to corn, you may well be continuing that reaction if you eat potato, which cross-reacts). Have a look at the shop, various sections and lots of downloads, but particularly helpful re. corn is the TGF Supplements Master List (free). Other useful source re. corn is cornallergygirl.com/2013/06...

Best wishes.

[Karen154 in reply to bookish]

Thank you for the information. It's going to really hard to control if thus is the case. I think if better pay to have allergy tests completed. I so hope it isn't this as well as its in my thyroid medicine.

Xxx

[bookish in reply to Karen154]

On purehealthclinic.co.uk/ you will find fact sheets about Allergy and Intolerance (as well as Menopause) and lots of information to help work out what kind of tests if you want/need to get any done.

It looks from what you've said as if your HRT is all progestin (with or without oestrogens) which is synthetic progesterone - you might be better with natural. Have you actually had hormone levels tested? Might be oestrogen dominant and needing progesterone only anyway or herbal hormone balancing.

[Karen154 in reply to bookish]

Hi, I've used a bio identical estrogen and progesterone. The progesterone cream helped with the hair fall. The estrogen cream was terrible really speed the hair loss up and made my scalp itched like crazy.

The hrt I was prescribed is Elleste 1mg. Felt great and do need the estrogen but had the same reaction so couldn't continue with it. I believe it's mainly estrogen and part progesterone. I should really write a post on estrogen.

Thanks for your help.

Xx

[bookish in reply to Karen154]

Just noticed the comment above about digestive enzymes - In the TGF Master List Micki Rose says "digestive enzymes are often fermented from fungi grown on grains" so you need to be a bit careful with those too, some react, some don't. Have a look at the Acid and Enzymes factsheet. Cheers.

[Cooper27]

It's an odd one - I went gluten free when my partner was diagnosed with coeliac disease. We had eaten a lot of gluten in the run up to his biopsy, but literally within 48 hours of cutting out gluten, I developed really bad IBS. Like you, I cut out pretty much everything but meat and veg.

I've spent the last year working pretty hard on my gut health, and have gotten past the IBS now. I think it's a combination of eating a variety of veg, and taking probiotics.

[Karen154]

Glad to hear it's under control for you now. Xx

[NatChap]

I find that gluten free pastry can sometimes cause stomach pain and bloating, as do things like grapes, apples and beans. Processed gf products often have a lot of ingredients to improve taste and texture so maybe best avoided. Cooking from fresh is best and I agree that eating out can be tricky but there are lots of restaurants providing gf options now it's just finding them! I find that Indian restaurants are often a good choice as lots of their meals are naturally gf as is a lot of tapas. Eating out at traditional English restaurants is pretty much impossible.