Always feel shaky/unwell after eating baguette - could it be coeliac disease?

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I'm currently undergoing some tests for IBD due to a couple of episodes of blood in stools over the last couple of months.

One thing I have recently noticed is whenever I eat baguette (specifically baguette rather than other breads) a few hours later I feel really shaky and weak, and my hands start shaking. It feels like my blood sugar is really low, it doesn't happen with other foods, and doesn't happen even if I eat something really sugary which makes me think that it might not be purely down to a drop in blood sugar.

Could this potentially be a sign of coeliac's disease or is it just likely to be blood sugar related? (I will stop eating baguette lol, I just got back from a trip to France though so I'm sure you can understand the temptation to eat baguette)

Do you get it with other yeasty products, gluteny products or carby products?

I only ever notice it with baguettes weirdly. I eat sandwiches made with brown bread most days and never notice it

Can it be something to do with the bulk of the bread rather than the ingredients? Vagus nerve issues?

If it was coeliac you would react to all forms of wheat.

Although coeliac is often misdiagnosed initially as IBS so it would be worth checking out.

Can you check your blood glucose during one of these episodes? It could be a low blood sugar crash after eating the baguette. It happens to me with white flour products. I’m pre-diabetic and have PCOS and check my blood sugar every now and then to see the effect of various foods. But it’s something to discuss with your doctor.

Do you put mayo in it? Could be a delayed egg allergy

No. Coeliac disease is a serious allergy to wheat. You would be unwell after eating all kinds of wheat - anything with flour in it for a start (so pasta, pastry, cake, pancakes, yorkshire puddings, all breads, loads of foods with a tiny trace of wheat in it). So this alone does not indicate coeliac.

What do you ordinarily have on the baguettes?

White bread has the same GI index as sugar, so it is causing you a blood sugar spike, then the resulting crash is what you are experiencing. This will happen quicker/more severe depending on the contents of the baguette. For example if it’s something else carby, and with not much protein.

Some people aren't. My friend's husband was only diagnosed after his mother was (after a biopsy). I wouldn't assume it's wheat though - could be something else.

Not exactly, coeliacs is an auto immune disease, not an allergy. The reaction that you describe tends to be when someone has cut gluten from their diet and then ingests (accidentally or intentionally) gluten. When someone hasn’t yet been diagnosed, it can present in varying ways which relate to a variety of other illnesses and that is why people can pursue a number of avenues before considering coeliacs.

Gluten allergy also exists but is not the same as coeliacs.

That said, I can’t see why either coeliacs or a gluten allergy would cause a reaction to baguettes but not any other form of bread or gluten foods.

I'm being tested for Coeliac. Currently week 1 in to upping my gluten ready for a 2nd test on the 19th.
I'd imagine if it was Coeliac you would most certainly be noticing some type of symptom after eating others foods too containing gluten, not necessarily just baguettes. Do you eat pizza, pasta, cake, etc?
My symptoms -
Nausea, sickness, weight loss, extreme bloating, left side abdo pain, upper tummy pain, my stomach talks to me 😂🙄, excessive wind, stools up and down - mainly really soft, lack of energy and tiredness.
May be worth a chat with the GP to rule it out as a possibility, then they can chrck for other things. I think maybe it's something different to Coeliac.

I agree with PPs who say white bread works in the body like sugar. It could be a blood sugar dip. I get this with white bread and especially with croissants which I now never eat because of the wobbly feeling and raging craving hunger about two hours later.

I just avoid white flour products most of the time. Stopping eating bread except wholemeal or stuff like Vogel seed bread has really helped.

This isnt necessarily true. Not all coeliacs have an actual reaction or are unwell after eating wheat, they can get silent effects which make them incredibly ill but in years to come. Or their symptoms can be tolerable which makes them tempted to dismiss the advice of what to eat.

I largely cut out bread from my diet to try and loose weight and because I know that on the whole it really bloats me and can sometimes make me feel uncomfortable.

I am menopausal and have been anaemic for over two years, a few months ago I had severe left sided stomach pains. Eventually I was referred for a double camera inspection where they suspected coeliac. I then had a follow up blood test at the GP which wasn’t conclusive with coeliac. The hospital Dr wants to send me for a genetic screening test a few weeks ago (but he was unsure how to go about this) but no one has really discussed coeliac with me in any detail.

I am unsure whether I am coeliac as gluten is present in many food products and I am still eating normally just avoiding white bread and I am ok but reading some of the posts above I wonder if I am largely unsympathetic or at least don’t have all the symptoms.

Some people with gluten intolerance get very few gastro effects but do get bizzare neurological issues- headaches, pins and needles etc, wobbly legs - and find this out by a matter of elimination- cut the gluten out and these symptoms disappear

I had small intestine bacterial overgrowth, which caused stomach, energy and neurological issues for a number of years. It also caused gluten sensitivity. Although the bacteria has cleared, I still can’t eat gluten.

Gluten sensitivity can have a cumulative effect, so it’s not always obvious the symptoms are linked to food. I notice impacts more clearly if I accidentally eat something with gluten, but before hand I would never have guessed.

Thank you. I have had the strange wobbly legs, light headedness and sweating profusely in the past sometimes when I am over hungry and due a meal or sometimes on a morning after going to the the loo.

The Dr never really discussed symptoms or options so I have turned to Dr Google. He made a vague mention as I was leaving that I could maybe try cutting out gluten if I wanted (but as it was the week before Christmas and we had ordered M&S buffet food, were visiting relatives and had nights out planned etc I didn’t want to make a half baked attempt to do this when he wasn’t even sure it was necessary so for now I am just keeping off the white bread).

There’s not a lot of point staying of white bread, you need to cut out all gluten for two weeks to see if it makes a difference, or just carry on eating it. Half measures won’t tell you anything.

@RitaSueandBobtwo Be interesting to see if gluten free makes a difference to you. In my case I didn't really get stomache issues, apart from rather a lot of pretty bright yellow runny poop at times. Mine came on out the blue too.

@PineapplePear given I waited almost two years for the double camera inspection to look at anaemia and this was brought forward because of the stomach pains I had in May. It took over two months to receive my results (possibly gluten) from the camera inspection and over a month to receive the gluten test results (not inconclusive gluten intolerance). The hospital Dr doesn’t even know how to organise/refer me for the gene test he mentioned almost 3 weeks ago. So their was no way (when feeling ok) that I was going to behave like a prima donna saying I couldn’t eat this and couldn’t eat that (at peoples houses especially MIL’s, the week before Christmas (when plans were already in place and he doesn’t even know yet whether I should be avoiding gluten for definite or not).