Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Struck down again

I think I got food poisoning again! Two times in the last four months is a bad track record. Sunday night I ate at a United Nations banquet at a local restaurant. About three hours later I was in a lot of pain. It surely felt like food poisoning to me, but maybe I have some sort of stomach flu/bug. At the end of last week I had a piece of cheesecake one day and a bowl of Freddy's Frozen custard another day. After both cases of rich heavy food I got a mild upset stomach. On Sunday I did not have anything at the banquet that was that rich so I'm not finding much consistency. This is all very strange and I am starting to fear I have some sort of new food allergy or a type of lactose intolerance that does not include nonfat yogurt and skim milk. I should probably see a gastro-intestinal specialist about this, but alas I have student health insurance. I might have to figure this one out on my own.

3 comments:

erin said...

For a long time I was consistently getting an upset stomach from meals where I could find no consistencies. Actually, for a while, I was afraid I became allergic to fresh pineapple because that was the only link I could find between The Breadbasket, Applebee's, and a Chinese buffet. Maybe I am allergic to fresh pineapple -- I haven't had any since, but I still kept feeling sick after eating. I lived on PeptoBismal and later Pepcid AC for about a year. All seems to have returned to normal now though.

erin said...

Those boys know what they're talking about (Brian sort of introduced it to me as well..."sort of" because I know my mom used it in spaghetti sauce and such, but I did not know of its good taste by itself).

Sarah S. said...

I'm sympathizing with you Ber...my GI troubles have gotten so bad that my doc here in Socorro is referring me to a specialist up in Rio Rancho. Everyone with a medical degree around here thinks I need to get my stomach scoped. Yuck. Oh well. Could be worse. Could be colon...

I blame homeownership. That gives everyone an ulcer sooner or later, right?

--shorthill