Celiac Disease + Body Intelligence: hey it's Celiac Awareness Month and I though I'd share this week's glutening!
There are times I think my issues with gluten are just in my head. I convince myself that regardless of the diagnosis, I most certainly don't have THAT serious of a reaction 🤦♀️ Like a fool I think this because I stay relatively healthy, eat at home, and am unexposed to gluten
I feel that way until I get glutened again
I've been dealing with a reaction all week and it's truly amazing how it unfolds
The symptoms are like a old friend I know very very well
They start the same way each time. It typically takes my system 18 hours to fully respond after exposure
The "death farts" start first. Horrendously putrid and a sign that my gut is getting ready to purge
Then I pass literally everything that is in my digestive tract, all day long
Then the body aches start, followed by the brain fog, eye twitching, stiff joints (knees and wrists this time!), and then days of nausea. Lot of anxiety too
All until I'm completely empty and cleaned out
Since I haven't had a full blown reaction like this in some time, the distance made it interesting. I felt like an observer of my own body and completely in awe over it's intelligence
Everything makes sense
The way my gut lets go of everything because it knows gluten (a fucking protein!) is harmful to my system
How this would cause system wide inflammation expressed as aches, stiff joints, and stomach pain
Then being in a sympathetic state, it moves along to my nervous system in twitching, brain fog, and anxiety
Then it makes sure I'm nauseous for a few days because everything it has been through, but also to secure that I don't eat too much to tax my digestive system
It's genius really
A marvel of design
My body can so easily communicate with me about the food I put into it, it's likes and dislikes, and when it needs to involuntarily detox
I'm used to most of the digestive symptoms, but the anxiety (so emptied out that I can literally feel its origin point is in my gut!) leaves me so shaky I get scared
Working through though🤞 gluten reactions are so different person to person
Haupia is back BTW!🤣
