What Happens When A Celiac Eats Gluten

There is literally nothing worse for a person with celiac disease than realizing that they just accidentally ate gluten. Usually it takes a period of weeks to even start to feel better. This should help give people a better idea of how it REALLY feels ....

First you experience a mix of shock and fear over the fact that you just accidentally poisoned your body.

Then that feeling of shock is replaced by blind rage at whoever or whatever caused gluten to end up in your mouth

Around this time, you start to feel the first wave of physical effects of the gluten which can be anything from overwhelming nausea to gas to general digestive upset.

Once the general feeling of digestive death starts to subside, you go into a dark, dark place because you know how hard the next few weeks are going to be.

Those weeks can consist of brain fog, exhaustion, joint pain, skin rashes, hair loss and whatever other miserable symptoms this disease causes for you (each celiac tends to have their own set of symptoms).

Next you attempt to function in day-to-day life without complaining by pretending you feel healthy.

.... but eventually you probably have a break down because you are so sick of being sick.

A few weeks later you start to feel better, and it feels like a miracle

And then someone says something to you like "I heard gluten intolerance isn't a real thing"

Stay strong fellow celiacs!

— The Healthy Celiac