Anyone have allergies to wheat?
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I am no allergic to wheat but I have what is much more common, celiac disease, an autoimmune diesase in which the body cannot absorb gluten, a protein in wheat, rye and barley. I am on a gluten free diet. My symptoms were many, including sinus and nasal problems.
I would highly suggest you visit and allergist or GI doc and have yourself tested for a wide range of food allergies and ask for the Celiac panel (www.csaceliacs.org for testing info). U must be eating gluten for this test to be accurate, hence the need to see a doc first bc if u are truly allergic u do not want to continue to eat wheat if it may kill you! So seeing an allergist is a good place to start. He may recoomend the elimination diet which is fine, but before u start that I reccomend getting the Celiac test so that once u go Gluten free u wont have to go back for any testing later.
GOod luck and feel free to email me for more info.
Hello.
I'm mildly intolerant of gluten, i.e. too much of it makes me ill. The only way that I am aware of for diagnosing it is to cut all wheat out of your diet and see if your symptoms improve. If they do, reintroduce wheat and see if they come back: - if they do, then avoid wheat products :)
I know it's easier said than done to avoid wheat as it's contained in so many prolfic foods, but it's either that or the symptoms - your choice...
Dr S
This is a long story but if it saves at least one person's sanity, then it's worth it. My problems started out with gluten allergies out of the blue. I'd eat anything with wheat and blow up like a pufferfish. I also couldn’t breath easily, and developed an ongoing cough and post nasal drip. Then I started gaining weight fairly rapidly and really started to panic. I gained 40 lbs in 2 years while desperately trying not to. I was working out with a trainer, and hitting the gym 5-7 days a week and dieting like crazy. (I already couldn't eat wheat). My cholesterol was up to 258. I was going out of my mind. I was getting married in two months and forced to buy maternity clothes. I had tested negative for everything. Thyroid, PSOS, Celiac, Cortisol, food allergies, hormone imbalance, pre-menopause, adrenals. It took thousands of dollars, months and months of dead ends and the TENTH doctor I found figured out what was wrong with me. My HMO was useless. I had doctors telling me that it was all in my head, to join Weight Watchers, to buy fat clothes, to de-stress, to use acupuncture, to drink shakes that tasted like cement, to stop eating apples (don’t ask), to just accept getting older. What crap! No way. I finally discovered an amazing bariatric doctor in Beverly Hills who did a thorough blood test and found that I was insulin resistant. This, he said, had caused my gluten issues, my high cholesterol and the uncontrollable rapid weight gain. Because my blood sugar was so off, I was converting everything I ate to sugar, which was stored in my system as fat. Something about insulin receptors not connecting properly. Before all of this, I'd never had sinus problems or been allergic to anything in my life, which, combined with clueless doctors, took so long to figure out. This Bev Hills Doc put me on a medication for diabetes called Metformin, along with diet pills, chromium and weekly lypotropic injections (B12, amino acids). It's been 3 months and I've lost 10 lbs (my body's sugar levels are finally stabilizing). Because of all the weight training I’ve been doing, I only need to lose 15 lbs more, not 30. My cholesterol has dropped 70 points, which is awesome. My advice to you is if you suddenly have gluten issues and you test negative for Celiac (which is typically hereditary), then have your blood tested for insulin resistance by a bariatric specialist. Apparently it's extremely common for women. Oh, by the way, the more weight I lose, the more I can tolerate wheat (but I've learned that I don't even miss it, and I'm Italian!) - Good luck!
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