I've been gluten, casein and lactose free for just over a week now. I have been very strict and cautious about it. The first two days I felt really ill but in a different way. After that I slowly started feeling like a new person. Then I accidentally shoved a bite of gluten down my throat. Just didn't even think. A few hours later I felt like I had aged 500 years in every way imaginable. The next day was awful ( yesterday ).

Something else happened tho. And it's really hard to say if it's related or not, so I'm gonna to just take it in stride. But yesterday I went completely ballistic on my boyfriend, like I'm not usually like that ever. For those of you that know me, I'm usually pretty calm and mild. I ve been like that when manic sure but not often. It was horrible. He tried to tell me I was being irrational and acting ill, finally it clicked, and omg I was completely way way off. Like lost touch with reality there. I know I have read about the gluten bipolar mania connection. So I don't know if that's because I ate the gluten, I wasn't having a mood issue before hand. My mood has been a bit low, buy that's because of circumstance more than anything. I'm lucky that my bf is very understanding of my condition most of the time.

Anyways I was relieved to see a drastic marker at least physically when the gluten was consumed. I will be extremely strick and hope I make drastic physical improvement, I think I'll give it a month and then introduce the gluten once and see what happens. I'm definitely one of those people who likes proof. It's a hard diet to follow, but this is giving me a lot of hope right now.