Coeliac suffers: how long before you noticed an improvement in your symptoms on a gluten-free diet?
It can take a few months to a year or more to see all the benefits of the diet. Just how long changes from person to person. Many doctors will do a follow-up biopsy after a year to check your success on the diet. It took me just 3 days to feel dramatically better, but I think it was about 6 months when I noticed just how much more energy and happiness and well-being I had. There were several symptoms that went away that first week or two, but over the next 6-8 months I gradually came to feel like decades had peeled away from how old I felt. I was astounded at how many little physical and mental (anxiety/moodiness) symptoms went away that I had assumed were just part of getting older, that were caused by some other condition, and/or that I had not expected would disappear on the diet. Two of my cousins have the disease as well. And while I improved fairly rapidly, they both improved more slowly. I think this was partly because they both had more severe symptoms to begin with and partly
