I self-diagnosed after having stomachaches for a month and a half. I cut various foods out of my diet, and when I stopped eating bread things got much better.

I self-diagnosed after having stomachaches for a month and a half. I cut various foods out of my diet, and when I stopped eating bread things got much better. But I've thought that I've been missing a variable for a while. Wheat-based pancakes trigger pain, but I've also very occasionally had pain after eating things that didn't contain gluten at all. A few times I've accidentally eaten things that should have contained a fair amount of gluten, but they didn't set me off. My problem experimenting with an exclusion diet is that my pain is quick to show up, but slow to leave. It took two weeks after I cut gluten for my stomach to finally settle. The effects of subsequent accidental dosages of gluten took a week to wear off.