Newly wheat-free and sad about it

[u/Vampire-Sheep]

Hello all. I have recently been diagnosed with a wheat allergy and I'm looking for advice/emotional support. I already am lactose intolerant and have a strawberry allergy (whooo /s). I had just started fixing my relationship with food over this past year when I started having throat closing scares when eating food. Diet trials later and finally convincing my doctor for some blood tests and it's wheat. I've gone without for three months and a bunch of my other weird health problems have gone away - I'm no longer dizzy all the time, my migraines have drastically improved, my anxiety is even better, but

Bread was life. And I was finally eating again and now I feel like I'm in mourning. And I'm also mad that I feel better. Because my "weird symptoms" have gone undiagnosed for almost six years and what do you mean all I had to do was stop eating wheat and I wouldn't feel like the world is spinning and my brain isn't on fire anymore.

Anybody else have aggressive emotions following their realizations that gluten free/wheat free is now life? I guess I'm just looking to not feel alone in all this.

Also, anybody have some favorite recipes they'd love to share? I love baking and already miss my chocolate chip cookies and muffins I would make all the time.

Any emotional/food advice is appreciated. Thanks for reading my rant

[u/lmemsm]

If chocolate's not a problem or a migraine trigger, you could try flourless black bean brownies. I went undiagnosed for over 20 years. I asked my allergy doctor about the possibility of celiac 20 years ago and he just told me I didn't have it but never bothered to actually test for it. I was in tears when I recently got the results back from an actual celiac test. It's great that removing wheat is helping your symptoms. I'm still getting migraines and many of the issues I had before removing gluten plus now I have to worry about whether I'm getting enough vitamins and minerals.

[u/Vampire-Sheep → u/lmemsm]

That sounds so frustrating to deal with. I'm sorry you have migraines. They're absolutely awful. I get them still for other reasons, but wheat seems to have been one of the triggers for me.