i'm 23 years old. i wake up every morning with a swollen face. its been doing this since i was 16 years old. i too am looking for the answer. its my face and fingers. i know this cuz every morning i cant get my rings off. on further inspection of my face being puffy, i notice that my lips swell up, my tounge seems fatter too, my puffy eyelids will swell down to my eyes. i also noticed that it is worse on days when i had been drinking alcohol the night before, so i know this attributes to the problem but is not the main cause. i also suffer from a wheat and glutten intollerance which means i am allergic to all food and beverage products that contain wheat and glutten (which is pretty much in almost everything). alcohol contains theese ingreedients. so do most of all the foods i eat. it's really hard to avoid...(just look at the ingreedient list of all the foods you buy) It's offically called celiac disease when you have food allergies to wheat and glutten. other sites can give you a full list of ingreedients not to ingest into your body. i want to say that because i eat these things regardless of my allergy to them, this may be why i am puffy every morning! being puffy every morning may be the main symptom to having celiac disease. i am not for certain tho, i would like a specialists/doctors oppinion on this matter after reading this entry. A PROFFESSIONAL OPPINION ON THIS MATTER WOULD BE WELL APPRICIATED!!! to ff in training, i hope this helps you in any way.

Gluten intolerance causes swelling and water retention in joints. It can also cause swelling of the face if you're allergic to gluten as well. Gluten is naturally in wheat flour. It's also in processed products. When you eat low carbs, you avoid gluten containing products so the swelling disappears...until you eat some gluten again. Wheat allergies are not altogether different from other food allergies or respiratory allergies. However two conditions, exercise/aspirin induced anaphylaxis and urticaria occur more frequently with wheat allergies. Common symptoms of a wheat allergy[citation needed] include eczema,(atopic dermatitis),hives (urticaria),asthma, "Hay fever" (allergic rhinitis), angioedema (tissue swelling due to fluid leakage from blood vessels), and abdominal cramps. Rarer symptoms include[citation needed] anaphylactic shock, arthritis, bloated stomach, chest pains, depression or mood swings, diarrhea, dizziness, headache, joint and muscle aches and pains (may be associated with progressive arthritis), nausea, vomiting, palpitations, psoriasis, sneezing, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), swollen throat or tongue, tiredness and lethargy, unexplained cough, unexplained runny nose, watery or itchy eyes.