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Valerie WELLS <[log in to unmask]>
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I know that being glutened can cause problems like these but I have never heard anyone go into details about it. I recognise myself SO much in what you write! Having said that, the times it has occurred to me I have also been having either my period or ovulation and I have connected those...when thinking about it now I can see that when I have been glutened at that time in the month it does get 100 times worse.
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I've experienced many years of being what I call 'crazy' from gluten. I probably had CD my whole life & was diagnosed at age 50. One of the biggest shocks of going gf 8+ yrs. has been that I now see all those 'crazy' reactions were because of gluten. I'm amazed that a lifetime of psychological impacts are rarely talked about on these boards, which makes me think it's not that common or it's not recognized. I certainly do know exactly what you're talking about.
 
[I was pretty crazy before diagnosis as well.  I don't know how my family put up w/ me.  My sister, 8 years older than I, said she used to wonder what in the heck was wrong w/ me as a child!  I finally found out what was "wrong" w/ me 8 years ago.  I sigh when I think how much better my life would have been had I been well all those years. ]
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Oh, that's so true.  When I first went gf and realized that it made me crazy or rather, that it was so easy to be sane now, it was such an overwhelming realization.  How different my life would have been!    And even though I had recurring bouts of insanity, I managed to finish college at age 35, successfully raise 2 boys all by myself, succeed in my career and be financially stable.  Now I know what an accomplishment that really was. I know what it's like growing up with a sister who wondered what was wrong with me!  That's really funny, too, that we were both diagnosed about the same time.  Thank you, too, for sharing.  It's still validating to hear that someone else experienced the same thing.    
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I know exactly what you are experiencing.........In the 80's I was promoted to a very good job for which I had tested with flying colors and was moved into immediately. It usually took months for qualified people to be placed but my scores on interviews, tests and roleplays were so high they moved me up. BUT the job I had been in was an afternoon evening job as a telephone co-supervisor and this new job was a regular day job where I had to eat away from home. I did not know I had gluten intolerance but I was always careful not to eat just before work because I knew I would get sleepy. I started the job and as time passed and I went thru various training programs I was not retaining the material. I was training in the downtown Chicago area and was eating with everyone else and after lunch I could not function. We were also getting bakery items for morning break and so I was in trouble. my job was in jeopardy and I simply could not cope. I was away from home 12 hrs a day with travel time and all. I had worked for the phone co for years and knew my rights but I simply could not exercise them. I just fell apart. I had reviously thought I had narcolepsy because of the sleepiness but now I went for psychotherapy thinking that the job was difficult enough that it had exposed some underlying psychological problem or immaturity. . . . Well I hung onto the job because my immediate boss was identified as part of the problem and was transferred out and some 12 to 15 yrs later I discovered I had Celiac. In the intervening years I had many coping failures but I was able to identify wheat as my real demon. My major symptom had become severe breathing difficulties so when I was not suffocating I kept searching for the cause until I identified it. The sleepiness was induced by lack of oxygen and I believe some neurological problems. I also had never had good coordination so I bumped into things and could not catch anything thrown to me. Now if I drop something I can catch it in mid air every time...... I also suffered from periodic depression but oddly not so much intestinal upsets. . . .I had, by the way, years earlier determined I became ill from Barley and from Malt . As a child the one time I remember having uncontrollable diarrhea in school was following lunch when my mother took me out to lunch and I had a malted milk. But wheat is so ubiquitous it was very difficult to figure out. Dr's never helped me so I had to do it myself. Thank God for the Internet.
-------------------I had progressively worsening memory, foggy brain, and was terribly depressed and emotional. Out of my emotions, I reacted terribly in relationships. I was also very anemic, which has the same affect, with or without gluten. I just was so darn sick, and I think thinking difficulties come with sickness of any kind. Today when I get glutened, I get tired and struggle with depression, which affects thinking and moods. I attribute this to trauma of sickness as much as the gluten itself. It is all inter-connected. I believe this 'hidden epidemic' of food allergies is the root of many erratic and crazy behaviors that break up relationships and even land people in jail.
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Yes!  I, too, do the very same dumb things and have the same symptoms! 
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