Ugh
Seeking advice...
I was diagnosed about 10yrs ago, and went gluten free. Since then I've barely had any problems - I'm pretty pedantic about all manner of things, but generally can tolerate the odd occasional amount of trace gluten without serious side effects (I bloat or get loose stools, but I'm not majorly ill). I never got the whole 'stripped your intestines' level of damage even in the first place.
I'm currently about 34 weeks pregnant and have had a shocker of a month - Hand Foot Mouth plague descended on our house (that was fun - it lives in the bowel for a month afterwards also), very large amount of emotional and physical stress (husband had surgery X2 and not able to fully care for our oversized heavy toddler or do a lot of housework etc) and I'm very anemic and was taking (gluten free) heavy duty iron supplements. I came off Zofran because it was competing (constipation causing) with the iron (diahorrea causing) so I have to put up with constant low grade nausea again courtesy of my never ending hyperemesis/extreme morning sickness.
My poor stomach is in revolt. I've never had as a revolting few weeks as I'm in the midst of now... constant all day toilet visits etc.
How does one manage a major coeliac blow out? I'm not/haven't been eating gluten - but it's classic hard core coeliac as far as I can tell now. Do I go off all possible irritants and do an elimination diet again (not sure this is safe at this point in my pregnancy) - ie all dairy, all sugars, fruits (it's summer dammit, but I have a classic mild fructose intolerance too) etc? Do I just eat bowl after bowl of rice and peas and corn and pray for the best? I need to start absorbing some nutrients! I'm barely gaining weight (which is ok-ish, but not great) and I'm in for IV iron tomorrow...
I was diagnosed about 10yrs ago, and went gluten free. Since then I've barely had any problems - I'm pretty pedantic about all manner of things, but generally can tolerate the odd occasional amount of trace gluten without serious side effects (I bloat or get loose stools, but I'm not majorly ill). I never got the whole 'stripped your intestines' level of damage even in the first place.
I'm currently about 34 weeks pregnant and have had a shocker of a month - Hand Foot Mouth plague descended on our house (that was fun - it lives in the bowel for a month afterwards also), very large amount of emotional and physical stress (husband had surgery X2 and not able to fully care for our oversized heavy toddler or do a lot of housework etc) and I'm very anemic and was taking (gluten free) heavy duty iron supplements. I came off Zofran because it was competing (constipation causing) with the iron (diahorrea causing) so I have to put up with constant low grade nausea again courtesy of my never ending hyperemesis/extreme morning sickness.
My poor stomach is in revolt. I've never had as a revolting few weeks as I'm in the midst of now... constant all day toilet visits etc.
How does one manage a major coeliac blow out? I'm not/haven't been eating gluten - but it's classic hard core coeliac as far as I can tell now. Do I go off all possible irritants and do an elimination diet again (not sure this is safe at this point in my pregnancy) - ie all dairy, all sugars, fruits (it's summer dammit, but I have a classic mild fructose intolerance too) etc? Do I just eat bowl after bowl of rice and peas and corn and pray for the best? I need to start absorbing some nutrients! I'm barely gaining weight (which is ok-ish, but not great) and I'm in for IV iron tomorrow...