Hi Deb,
I agree with Barbara.
I suspect the reason she likes your name, is because she has a daughter named Deb.
As I've mentioned before, (in various posts, in the past), I kept a detailed food diary for two and a half years, starting one month before I started the GF diet, and I never could tell a difference when I ate any gluten - I seemed to be sick at random times, and everything seemed to make me sick. The effect may have been dose-dependent - IOW, maybe after I ate enough of it, I would get sick. Now that I have been in remission for a number of years, though, It's much easier to tell. My usual reaction time now, is from about 3 to 6 hours after eating something, (that I shouldn't have eaten), and after it flushes out my system, good and proper, I will usually be back to normal, in about 8 or 10 hours, or so.
Some people don't react until the following day, and some people react according to their normal transit time, that is, if it takes 30 hours for most carbs to go completely through their system, then they may not get D until about 30 hours after eating the offending gluten-containing food. Note that there is no such thing as a single precise transit time for anyone, though. Different types of food take different amounts of time to go through the various parts of the GI tract, (stomach, small intestine, and colon). Liquids, obviously, go through much faster than other foods, especially through the stomach and small intestine. The more difficult a food is to digest, the longer the transit time. That's one of the reasons why fiber slows down motility for D-phase IBS, for example.
I have a hunch that the reason why there is so much variability in the transit times for gluten, for various members here, is connected with small intestinal involvement. IOW, for those of us whose small intestine is also sensitive to gluten, we will react much sooner, (it takes approximately 2 to 4 hours for the stomach to empty half it's contents into the small intestine, after a meal). For those of us who only have colon sensitivity to gluten, though, it should take roughly a day longer to react, since the small intestine will not be generating gliadin antibodies as the chime, (partially digested food), passes through it. On the other hand, for those with gastgritis, (stomach involvement), reactions could come within as little as 10 or 15 minutes, and we do have a few members who have such rapid reaction times. They can't finish a meal, without running to the bathroom. IOW, we're all different, but our respective reaction times are pretty consistent, on an individual basis. That's one of the tricky parts of dealing with MC - the answer to a lot of questions, depends on who you're asking.
Tex
