Food & symptoms · Gluten & Celiac
A gluten symptom tracker, and the test to do before you start
One thing is worth knowing before anything else on this page. Do not remove gluten from your diet before being tested for celiac disease — coeliac disease, in British spelling. The tests look for the immune response to gluten, so once you've stopped eating it they come back negative whether or not you have it. People routinely go gluten-free, feel better, and then discover that getting an actual diagnosis means months of deliberately eating gluten again to make themselves ill enough to test.
For anyone tracking gluten symptoms, tested or considering testing.
Why this is hard to keep track of
- Cross-contact is invisible, constant, and impossible to reconstruct afterwards
- Symptoms overlap with everything else, so attribution is guesswork
- Recovery takes days, by which point the source is long forgotten
- Eating out is a repeated gamble with no record of which places are safe
Worth recording
- Suspected exposures and where you think they came from
- Symptoms and how long after the meal they started
- How long recovery took
- How careful the setting was — dedicated kitchen, told and trusted, or unknown
Cadence
Logged when something goes wrong, plus a weekly line
In practice
Say it once, in whatever words you have
The moments most worth recording are the ones where filling in a form is the least realistic thing in the world. A sentence, typed or dictated afterwards, is a much lower bar — and it carries the context a checkbox would have lost.
Called 4 tools
log_exposure(suspected_source: "sauce", setting: "event", certainty: "likely")log_symptom(onset_hours: 4, recovery_days: 3)find_pattern(metric: "exposures", group_by: "source")compare_periods(metric: "exposures", split: "venue_type")
Every figure here was counted from entries you made. The model picked which tools to call — it doesn't interpret, diagnose, or decide what anything means about anyone.
And then ask
The question the log can answer
Months of entries hold real answers to the questions you've been guessing at, and reading them properly has always meant a spreadsheet and a free evening — which is not a thing anyone in this situation has.
Ask in plain language. The answers come back with the numbers behind them, including when those numbers are too thin to mean anything yet — which is the more useful answer more often than people expect.
Called 3 tools
get_history(topic: "gluten-and-celiac", window: "6m")find_pattern(group_by: "antecedent")compare_periods(metric: "events")
Counts and averages over your own entries, nothing more. Where the data is confounded or too thin, the answer says so instead of rounding it into a conclusion.
The reason most people start
Something to actually bring to the appointment
You get fifteen minutes, once, after waiting months for it. The questions are specific and the honest answers are all some version of "I don't know, it's hard to say".
What this gives you: A record of exposures and recovery times for a celiac review or dietitian, which turns "I still don't feel right" into something specific.
- Export the date range you were asked about, as a file you can print
- Counts and timings rather than an impression of the worst week
- Your own notes kept alongside the numbers, in your words
- Nothing shared anywhere unless you choose to share it
What it won't do
- Diagnose anything, or suggest that it could
- Score a person, or rank them against anyone else
- Set a target for fewer events, or a streak of good days
- Recommend a treatment, a therapy, a diet or a medication change
- Share your record with a school, a clinician or anyone else on its own
It's a notebook that can do arithmetic and answer questions about itself. Deciding what any of it means is a job for you and the people advising you.
Early access
Start with what you're already trying to hold in your head
Tell us what you've been trying to keep track of and we'll set it up with you — recording the thing that's actually useful, at a cadence that survives a bad week.
- Founding accounts lock their price for life
- No card, no trial clock, no notifications designed to make you feel behind
- Export everything you've logged whenever you want
Also tracked
The rest of the picture
These overlap constantly, which is the point — the answer to a question about one of them is very often sitting in another one's data.
Elimination Diets
A sentence after meals, and whenever something changes
Low FODMAP
Logged through each challenge, reviewed at the end of it
Food Intolerance
A sentence after meals, symptoms whenever they show up
Food Allergy
Logged after the event, once everyone is safe
IBS & Gut Symptoms
A line a day, more during a flare
Migraine Triggers
A line when an attack starts and one when it ends
Eczema & Skin Flares
A line a day during a flare, weekly otherwise
Keep the record without it becoming another job
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