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Posted 4/3/2018 4:37 PM (GMT 0)
Do you have foods that you can eat in one form but not another? For example, cooked oatmeal is really easy and soothing for my stomach, but baked oatmeal (like granola) gives me terrible stomach cramps. I can eat scrambled eggs, but if I eat boiled or fried eggs, where the yolk is separate, I feel sick. I can eat plain bread, but a muffin will make me sick for days (I can't figure out what ingredient would be in it that would make me so sick).
Posted 4/3/2018 5:53 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, absolutely. I can eat cheese but not yogurt. I haven't had raw veggies for years - and I used to be quite the salad eater - but I can have cooked, though never broccoli and not much in the way of Brussels Sprouts or cauliflower, either.

I finally figured out that if I stick to mostly soluble fiber, I'm ok. Insoluble fiber just makes me constipated. Gluten free eating also made me constipated!?

Debbie
Posted 4/4/2018 1:20 AM (GMT 0)
It may not be the oatmeal but another ingredient in the granola. Keep a Food Journal - see a zillion posts in the archives, aka the search box at the top right of the page, aka "google custom search."

Several years ago my allergist had me keep a journal and I found my "trigger foods," which led me to not the whole hamburger but the condiments which conatined vinegar, and led me to sulfites. Not that this is your trigger, but it's a way of finding your own.
Posted 4/4/2018 10:07 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Scooby,

I've experienced the same sort of sensitivities over the years and what has helped me the most is when I watched an author/nutritionist JJ Virgin speak on PBS. She has a book out about eliminating 7 types of foods from your diet for 3 weeks to see which ones you're sensitive to then reintroducing them one at a time. It worked for me. Sure enough some of the foods that I reintroduced caused a big reaction like increased pain or digestive issues and issues with trying to get adequate sleep.

The foods she recommends that you eliminate are:

Gluten.
Dairy.
Soy.
Eggs.
Corn.
Peanuts.
Sugar and artificial sweeteners.

I can't do caffeine. So I stay away from caffeinated products especially chocolate.

I still have a tough time with peanuts, sugar, dairy, and gluten so I rarely eat them. I eat Ezekial bread. It's a sprouted bread located in the grocery store's freezer section and suppose to be more healthy than whole wheat. It also has a lot of fiber. You mentioned how a muffin affects you. Maybe it doesn't have much fiber or the sugar might be affecting you? The baked oatmeal wouldn't work for me. I do have to make sure that my daily morning breakfast of steel cut oatmeal made with various seeds and nuts and topped with frozen bluesberries after it's microwaved each morning isn't too thick. I make enough for 5 days at a time.

Good luck to you.

Post Edited (almost medfree) : 4/4/2018 4:13:24 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/4/2018 2:24 PM (GMT 0)
I've done quite a lot with diet, although not enough - basically paring it down to the very simple and taking out things that don't agree with me. With muffins, it could be an ingredient, or a combination that doesn't work for me (probably the combination of sugar (never my friend), butter and wheat). The oatmeal is a weird one though. I make my own granola, so I know exactly what's in their. If I put oats in it, it makes me sick. But if I just eat plain oatmeal cooked, I'm fine. And the granola, without the oats, is fine. It must be something about the process, like some people can eat soaked nuts, but not raw or roasted. And the egg thing is just plain weird. Just one of those mysteries about my very strange body. Sometimes it feels like a separate, alien being. lol
Posted 4/5/2018 3:01 AM (GMT 0)
Ha! I know that feeling exactly!
Posted 5/15/2018 4:26 PM (GMT 0)
Yes I have weird food issues! My problem is mostly with meats- they often taste spoiled- but there is no rhyme or reason to what I can or can't eat. I don't usually have as much trouble with fruits and veggies or most seafood. Once in a while I may be able to eat a little meat or something I usually have trouble with- even if it was always a favoirite in the past and the next day or next MEAL I can't eat it. Feel like I'll throw up if I swallow it. I usually stick to the same few foods I know I don't have trouble with. Can't eat meat on pizza- if i can eat the pizza at all. Spicy foods go better. There is only one restaurant where I can eat a burger and then only half of it. Can't even eat burgers I make myself. It's very frustrating! I find something that goes well and the next time I can't eat it. On the bright side- I'm losing weight. 😀 Seriously though I have to make an effort to get a balanced diet and enough fluids- feel nauseated if I drink too much of anything at one time. I eat bars high in protein so i get enough protein. So thankful I have a supportive and understanding husband and family!
Posted 5/17/2018 3:51 PM (GMT 0)
It's possible it's more of a gut issue than fibro although I know fibro can cause it too. Many foods can mess the body up if you do.
Posted 5/17/2018 5:03 PM (GMT 0)
My husband is allergic to almost everything. (Think Bubble wrap needed) He can have eggs, pan fried without lots of oil, scrambled, omelet, quiche, and in baked goods, but boiled eggs make him sick as can be.

He has to be off of sulfites and sulfa, and sulfates............something in the chemistry of the egg changes and makes him very ill when boiled.

I can't eat the vegetable corn .........yet I can eat a few 100% corn chips and I don't seem to react to corn starch..........corn makes me feel like dying would be better. I just can't digest it and it is so painful until it passes......even creamed corn.

We have to be gluten free and oats made us both double over in gastric pain......... I discovered that unless it is declared GLUTEN FREE Oats use the same grinding stone for wheat.

My husband is highly allergic to corn....... he was reacting to everything. salt, tea, paper plates and cups, coffee. I researched for ever to find out that the table salt I was using uses corn to process the iodine into it and to keep it pouring freely. The tea bags, the coffee filters and paper plates and cups have corn in the process of making them.

Sometimes it is searching for a needle in a haystack to find the triggers.
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