Note: This doesn't include physical injuries that you get along the way.
However, this is my experience in giving up all gluten about 1 1/2 years ago now. The other advantage is you tend to lose weight. This is true for me because I don't like Gluten free Bread very much and I don't like Gluten free pizza as much as I liked Gluten pizza and I don't like gluten free pasta as much as I like Gluten Pasta.
However, ever since I found out that I have been allergic to gluten my whole life after about $1000 in blood tests (40% of people on earth are allergic to gluten from fatal to just making your brain swell a little etc.)
However, most people especially above 40 will go 80% to 90% pain free from then on just by giving up gluten. So, it is possible you might never take another pain reliever again unless you have a toothache or get physically injured.
Another level of this is a gluten allergy is tied to Giardia which is a protazoa that lives in your intestines and eats your food before you do. In the 1980s I got this along with 4 out of 5 members of my family as we traveled in India and Nepal for about 4 months then. After visiting a foreign disease specialist in California when we all returned she told us just to let it slough off naturally because it might damage our livers if we took the harsh medicines to kill giardia(including my children then 10 to14 years of age).
However, I wasn't told that doing this might also allow some protozoa to live in my intestines even though I would no longer have bad symptoms sort of like Montezuma's revenge for months or years.
I also wasn't told (I'm not sure most people even knew about this in western medicine then) that protazoa's favorite food is actually gluten sugars. So, they alter your intestines (attack your intestines) and make them allergic to gluten so they can eat all the gluten sugars which Giardia protazoa love the best.
This can result over time in the host person getting hypothyroid (which I did) and I was finally diagnosed in 2006 (20 years after being exposed to giardia in India and Nepal and possibly Thailand too.) When I took my blood test 1 1/2 years ago the Nurse practitioner that was also trained as an Aryuvedic specialist said that the next step after being diagnosed hypothryoid is often to be diagnosed auto-immune a few years after that. Luckily, I was able to realize this before this happened to me. This progression is also indirectly or directly caused by exposure to giardia in foreign places.
Also, there is now giardia in the U.S. that people are often exposed to through well water or streams or brooks if they drink untreated water here. I'm not sure U.S. giardia is the same as India and Nepal's and Thailand's giardia so I don't know if the same thing I'm talking about here in the U.S. can happen here as well. You would have to talk to a specialist to try to understand this better here.
However, if you are a world traveler you also can be exposed to giardia and not know it or have symptoms either and could be carrying giardia in your intestines too.
So, one way to prevent auto-immune disease and possibly becoming hypothyroid is to give up all gluten. The byproduct is to eliminate most or all muscle or joint pain as well.
This is end of pain is true whether or not you are allergic to gluten or not in most cases.
I am presently the most pain free I have been since my 20s at this point. So, I can travel the world and hike and play and snorkel and ride my motorcycle and feel good while doing this at age 66 precisely because I am gluten free.
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