What are some of the symptoms of an undiagnosed Gluten Allergy?

Through almost dying and being forced to go off all things like Gluten fiber I discovered finally this week that likely I have a gluten allergy. This isn't the same as Celiacs where eating gluten will kill you it is something different than that.

For example, my wife tells me she has trouble with Bread often here in the U.S. and also Pizza. However, when we were in Europe for 3 weeks in October of 2025 she mentioned she had no trouble with the bread or pizza there. So, this could be the food additives allowed in food here in the U.S. too because generally speaking all food tends to be healthier in Europe than the United States. Why is this?

The U.S. tends to be more corporate oriented that people's health oriented here in the U.S. and so people's health and diet is much more screwed up by companies propaganda. It's sort of like cigarettes in the 1950s where Doctors would go on TV and tell you that they smoked in order to get you to smoke too. But, this problem still exists with Food where companies in the U.S. lie to us about all sorts of things that we should NOT be putting into our bodies. 

So, anyway, food tends to be a lot healthier in Europe than in the U.S. because they are more people's survival oriented than companies tend to be here in the U.S. So, the corporations in the U.S. (of all kinds) tend to serve themselves best and not the people they are supposed to serve. Why is this true? I think there are many many reasons for this but most of all it is about money and that's all, not health.

So, what are some of the symptoms of an undiagnosed gluten allergy?

1. edema where your feet swell up.

2. a lot of gas (farts) to the point of pain in your guts.

3. pain in your hands from things like arthritis later in life.

For example, after a stay of 3 days in the hospital in early January I had to go off all fiber because of a problem with a hernia in relation to my intestines (a naval Hernia). So, I had to eliminate all gluten from my diet because gluten is usually fiber. However, to keep things moving I still ate oatmeal as a way of staying alive. However, all bread and pasta and cakes and cookies I had to eliminate from my diet completely.

The first thing I noticed was no gas at all when my father used to say about the men in our family "A farting horse will never tire a farting man is the one to hire". And we would laugh about this.

However, now I realize that this might have been just a gluten sensitivity or a gluten allergy in all the men in my father's family instead. Because as soon as I gave up gluten almost all gas was immediately eliminated from my system.

So, this could be something that we all were sensitive to all these many many years and didn't know it.

One of my favorite things in life has been pizza and pasta especially. I can live without cakes and cookies as long as I have gotten pizza, pasta and bread in my life.

But now, I have to rethink all this because now I'm 77 and might die from Gluten sensitivity from edema or gas or pain in my hands from arthritis which seems to be caused a lot by gluten?

So, obviously after almost dying on January 4th in the emergency room in our local hospital I have had to change a lot to survive all this but one of the many things I have learned about all this is that I likely am gluten sensitive or have a gluten allergy along with all the men in my father's family? This is what I'm learning now.

Why?

Because I had edema but don't have it anymore since I stopped eating gluten.

Because 80% of the pain in my hands at 77 is gone since I stopped eating gluten.

Because one cannot lose weight if one is eating gluten or rice. Rice converts to such a high level of sugar in your blood that you simply cannot lose weight while eating rice. And if you are eating gluten you also usually cannot lose weight either.

And this above fact about Rice and Gluten seems to be pretty universal for everyone. Why?

Possibly one reason is that people didn't eat wheat at all before 15,000 to 25,000 years ago when they first started growing wheat for bread I think in the fertile Crescent of the Middle East and then it migrated to all sorts of other wonderful things to eat like cakes and pastries and pasta and all the other stuff that was made from wheat and wheat products. 

So, how many people are allergic to Gluten?

I'm thinking it is many more than people realize.

Could people die from a Gluten Allergy without realizing they are dying from this?

I think it's a little like low thyroid which I also have since it was diagnosed when I was 58 in 2006. Low thyroid is less likely to kill you if you are a man than a woman but it still isn't fun to be depressed all the time from being a hypothyroid. Another variation of this is Hashimoto's disease which is low thyroid too.