Possible food allergy or something else?

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Possible food allergy or something else?
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Fri, 02-04-2005 - 12:49pm

My family and I got the stomach flu at the beginning of Jan. Everyone has fully recoverd, except me it seems. I will be great for about a week, and then sick with an excruciating (sp?) stomach ache for 2-3 days, then fine again for a week. This has happened the entire month of January and now has extended into Feb. I am breastfeeding my 4 month old son and have been told that the extra strain that milk production puts on my body is not impeading my getting well. My dr has checked my thyroid, blood glucose, iron and done a CBC. Those were all normal. I have had dizziness, fatigue, nausea, indigestion, gas and bloating. It's almost like I am drunk at times, and I do not drink alcohol. I am just getting over another stomach ache that occurred early wed morning. I have taken out dairy and wild game from my diet. (moose and deer meat) Could this possibly be a food allergy or just that my stomach is still "raw and irritated" (as the dr told me) from the flu at the beginning of January?


TIA


Sherry

 

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Registered: 10-14-2003
Fri, 02-04-2005 - 3:15pm

Hi Sherry and Welcome to iVillage, Yes it could be if you are not cooking the meat right or if you haven't cared for the meat properly.
I or We are not doctors here

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 02-04-2005 - 5:48pm

Well I do have a lot of stress in my life. Once my husband and I decided to have our first child, who will be 2 in March, life kind of got stressful. We were living with his parents, and younger brother and sister at the time. We had no privacy, and his father is severely depressed and treats his family quite badly, which included me. I ended up having morning sickness for 2 months straight and got into several tiffs with his mother about how her husband was treating everyone. All that along with my hightening hormone levels put a lot of stress on me. Then my husband and I started fighting and it seems as though it has not stopped since then. Although we are both happy to have our daughter, we have probably fought since the day she was born.


She was born with a genetic disorder, called Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, that can only be diagnosed after birth, with the first child. Because of this she had to be taken by ambulance an hour away to a hospital with specialists. My husband and I were able to spend only 2 hours with her, right after her birth. Then I was allowed to be discharged from the hospital about 4 hours later and we went to see her everyday. I sufferend from mild anxiety attacks among other things at this time. She was born with ambiguous genitalia, and for her first 5 days of life the drs referred to her as "he" even when we tried to correct them. She went through extensive tests, I can pick my daughters cry of pain out of a crowded room of crying children. She was poked and prodded over and over, and even though I thought I was dealing with it well, I really think I supressed a lot of the pain and guilt I was feeling.


When she was 12 months old she had to have surgery to "repair" her genitalia. Mostly costmetic, but still very painful indeed. I was almost 4 months pregnant with her brother at this time. It was an unplanned pregnancy, which put a little more strain on my husband and I's already strained relationship. She was in the hospital for about 4 days, first on morphine and then codene (sp?) for her pain. There was a virus called, the rota virus going around the peds ward when she was there, and as a result had to be hospitialized 2 days later because of it. She was in the hospital for 2 more days, and finally we were able to take her home.


For a long time I felt a lot of guilt over her CAH. I wish I had known about it before she was born, so I could have done something to prevent it. Of course if you don't know you don't carry the gene (and both parents have to carry the gene to have a child with it) then there is no way to prevent it.


Then our son was born in Sept 2004. I had post partum depression with my daughter and never was able to "recover" from it before I was pregnant again. I think I still have guilt, I am just really good at supressing it.


My husband and I fought daily, about this and that. There was never a day that went by it seems that we did not fight. Then in the fall of 2004 we decided that we should pack our bags and move closer to my family. So in Dec 2004 we moved a 21 month old, a 3 month old and ourselves from Virginia USA to Alberta Canada. When we finally got here on the night of Dec 29th 2004, I'd had 2 hours of sleep the night before. The day after New Years my daughter came down with a stomach flu that lasted about 4 days. Then it hit me, my husband and then my parents. Who we are living with right now. With her CAH, her body has a hard time dealing with stressful situations, like illnesses and it can quickly go from bad to worse.

 

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Registered: 10-01-2002
Fri, 02-04-2005 - 8:47pm

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sun, 02-06-2005 - 4:23pm

Hi Magma,


Welcome to the board.