Gluten Challenge Update and fevers

Another update on how my Gluten Challenge is progressing. My joint pain has become quite bad, at times I can feel it in what seems to be every joint in my body. So far I am managing it reasonably well with anti-inflammatories, but I never thought I would say it but I am in some ways starting to look forward to going back off the gluten. If only for the reduction in joint pain! I have also noticed that after eating bakery food on weekends as a bit of a treat, I end up paying for it the next few days. I can manage small amounts of gluten without it having too much of an immediate effect (apart from the joint pain etc), but it appears that too much in a day stops things up a bit.

There is still no answers on the fevers.. I am now getting them daily, and almost all day although they seem to be worse first thing in the morning and in the evenings. They seem to be more frequent now and it is getting extremely frustrating! All I know is that it isn’t from the Coeliacs (according to my gastro specialist). My gp seems to think it might be related to my PCOS, but I am skeptical on that one. It also seems that the sweating I have been experiencing is not related to medication like I thought, as I am now off that medication for nearly 3 weeks and I am still sweating. I am thinking now that it might be related to my fevers as the one morning this week I didn’t sweat while putting on makeup was when I took some nurophen at 5.30am. I am thinking that it controlled my fever and so I didn’t sweat. I will keep an eye on that theory and see what happens.

At this stage everything with the fevers is pretty much in limbo. My gp wants to talk to an endocrinologist about my case and so I am waiting to hear from her about what she comes up with there.

I have about 6wks to go eating gluten and I will be very surprised if my tests results show I am not Coeliac. I may not respond like a typical Coeliac, but all Coeliac’s do respond differently, something I was reminded of when speaking to a Coeliac at a work function. My reactions just don’t seem to be as immediate as a typical Coeliac’s but it appears the reactions are definitely still there.