Gluten Sensitivity

I was on a gluten-free diet for a few weeks. Tonight I realized I ran out of gluten-free bread, so I went back to the old bag of wheat/buckwheat/chia bread in the freezer. I made my usual sandwich with tofu and kale and mustard. 3-4 hours later I started feeling fatigued and depressed, and bloated. I kept passing gas and without realizing it, actually some liquid got through to my underwear. This hadn't happened in a long time. 5-6 hours later I started going to the bathroom a lot. I think I went 4 times in the last hour just to pass some liquid stool with blood. I pushed quite a bit because I felt really bloated and constipated, but nothing solid came through. Unless this is the red kidney beans I ate and which I normally don't eat, and which have been in the fridge for 3-4 days, it has to be the gluten bread, even though it's supposed to be low in gluten. So I will go back on a gluten free diet and see in a month if I want to confirm it, but it looks like I am gluten sensitive. I will also stay away from canned kidney beans for a a few weeks and then try to reintroduce them to see how I feel.

Edit: Update. I do not seem to have a major problem with gluten. It might not be ideal to get a lot of it, I have yet to know, but I have reintroduced it for a week (whole wheat pasta included) and didn't have significant issues from it. I have been going a bit more to the bathroom lately but I cannot say it is caused by the gluten. So it seems like red kidney beans were the previous offender.

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