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Long COVID and gluten sensitivity
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Jul 1 12:26pm | Replies (55)Comment receiving replies
I’ve had a similar experience, but I didn’t catch COVID. I got vaccinated 5/21/2021 and 6/11/2021 and within a week of receiving the second vaccine, I became completely gluten intolerant with no previous issues. When I consume even trace amounts of gluten (ex. a pizza made on the same surface as regular wheat dough) I experience intestinal pain, bloating, frequent and mostly liquid bowel movements (which begin almost immediately after consumption), extreme and debilitating lethargy (which lasts at least two days — like I’d taken multiple Benadryl), palpitations and shortness of breath, headaches, and skin rashes. I blood tested negative for celiac disease and experience next to no issues when I eliminate gluten from my diet.
However, still unhappy about this new development. I’m already a vegetarian (I was raised that way), so this seriously limits the foods available to me and it’s really difficult to eat out and socialize with others.
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I have Celiac and what you described is exactly what I experience immediately after consuming gluten. Most vegan meals and products are wheat based so I can’t imagine. Today I made a sandwich with Schar’s gluten free sour dough bread, it fell apart. ☹️
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Celiac and gluten intolerance are as much social isolation as autimmune diseases. Gluten is not a joke for us and eating out and with others is hard. There are national and local celiac support groups that help (these also include gluten intolerant), but mostly we just have to live with it and and navigate through it. It takes several years. One thing that I didn't understand before celiac is how food divides us, people in religions/groups/races/etc are isolated from other groups because of what they eat. It was 14 years ago for me (after H1N1). I lost friends because my being gluten free got on their nerves or they excluded me from parties because I brought my own food. I got new friends and interests and cook a lot (also sensitive to some processed foods).