Ch -Ch- Ch-Ch- Changes.....

Denverdave

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I have been feeling crappy for a couple months now. Some days were worse than others. I went to the Docs and had a physical and blood work. It all checked out good. But I am feeling worse if anything. Fatigue....brain fog...tired all the time. Can't sleep very well. No energy - which sucks when you are a runner.

So Wednesday after a run I was talking to a running friend and he suggested it was possibly something food related. I have never had a food allergy, but I decided to track what I was eating. Friday morning was ok. About one hour after lunch the crash came. All I had was a bagel sammich (turkey, swiss, guacamole), potato salad. And I remember that it was a common time. I am thinking I possibly could now be gluten intolerant. I do not have the gastro symptoms, but they are not always present. The other symptoms line up. So I am going to try and do 6 weeks gluten free and see. This will be hard because I eat sammichs every day for lunch. Pizza. Beer. Lots of pasta. Beer. Breakfast burritos.

Gah! But, I am tired of feeling like shit 12 hours a day. Something has got to change.

BTW - Bought a 6 pack of gluten free beer. Actually not bad at all!
 
If you get the gluten free bread for sandwiches, it can be made far more tolerable by toasting it before eating. I'd pack all my sandwich fixins in a tupperware, and assemble the sandwich in the staff lounge after toasting the bread. Or you could just switch to salads--an avocado, turkey, swiss salad is just as good as a sandwich. There's plenty of good GF pastas out there, but also some real awful ones--keep trying till you get a good one.
 
We found a gluten free bread in the grocery store bakery - in a freezer bunker.

You finish it at home on the oven - straight from frozen.

My wife's cousin was visiting and we got it for him as he can't tolerate gluten.

It's so good, we keep buying it for ourselves.
At the very worst, it gets a little dry if it's still around a couple of days after first baking it.
And 'baking' is not the right word as its already baked. You're really just warming it up.

I'll try to find a brand name, if there is one.
 
Thanks.....

My GF knows about this and started a Pinterest page with already a half bazillion entries. I need the education. Any suggestion welsomed.

BTW - New Planet GF beer is pretty good. They are a local microbrew and only do gluten free since the founder has celiac disease. I got the pale ale. It does not taste exactly like regular beer, but is very close and very good.
 
http://omissionbeer.com/ is not bad. There are good gluten free items and there are lots of shitty tasting ones. Sometimes the best gluten free food is food that shouldn't have gluten in the first place.


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Two days in and I am noticing a difference. A definitely difference. It is not huge, but I expecting that will take some time. Bought some GF bread and took Chicken Man's advice and toasted it here at work. Tasted fine. I'm trying a gluten free pasta I bought at Trader Joes tomorrow night. And reading labels even more closely than I did before.
 
Well......with one exception (accidentally eating two pieces of regular pizza) I made it the six weeks. About a month in I slowly started feeling like crap again. I feel like crap right now. I am not sure it was gluten...or just gluten. And I really cannot afford nearly endless visits to some specialist (at $75 a pop) try to figure out what is wrong - but that might have to be what I end up doing. I'm getting tired of feeling anemic, and the blood work I had done found nothing.
 
Bummer man, I hope you get it sorted. No fun when you can't pin down a solution, especially regarding health.
 
Maybe feeling like crap comes with age?

I can sleep for eight hours and when I wake up I feel tired and want a nap :embarrassed:
 
Maybe feeling like crap comes with age?

I can sleep for eight hours and when I wake up I feel tired and want a nap :embarrassed:

Well...yeah. :)

I don't think it is an age thing, but I really do not know. I just know that the last three moths or so something is just not right. I am guessing diet related, but I am neither a doctor nor do I play one on TV. And my symptoms do not line up well with anything I can find online and my strong blood numbers rule out other stuff. Hopefully it is just something either passing or something that can be dealt with apart from any medication. I HATE medication.
 
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