<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Hi listmates, I used to suffer a lot from hemorrhoids, migraine and hypoglycemia but after I stopped coffee, cigarette and gluten it improved a lot. My question to you is: could hemorrhoids be related to accidental ingestion of gluten. Two days ago, I used champagne vinegar from Spice Islands company in a recipe. The ingredient list says: champagne wine vinegar, sulfites, acetic acid. Could it be the sulfites ? I am sure that everything else was GF, because these past days it was so hot in montreal that I ate very little, just eggs and fish and vegetable. So I suspect the vinegar. An hour after eating that meal, I felt bloated and "a little bad" celiac like. A day after that, so last night in the middle of the night, I woke up in pain with hemorrhoids. To me it is such an awfull pain that I always feel I am going to faint when I have it. My face becomes livid white. My whole body becomes very hot and I feel so weak all over. I had to alternate between the toilet and laying down on the bathroom floor to be sure not to faint. I used Anusol and after an hour I could go back to sleep. This morning, I still feel terribly weak in my whole body, I feel like crying, my muscles feel weak and I could be hypoglycemic at the moment. Do you think it is related to CD or gluten or is it what a normal hemorrhoid episode. If so, what cause hemorrhoids. Thanks in advance for your always precious help. Johanne Montreal QC Canada