New here - stomach issues

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New here - stomach issues
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Thu, 02-23-2006 - 2:36pm

Hi!  This is the first time I went looking for a stomach board on Ivillage and there it was!


I have a question that I should just ask a doctor about, but since I keep forgetting to find a doctor and make an appointment, I figured I'd start here.

So the issue is that a few years ago I suddenly could not eat eggs anymore.  I got these horrible stomach pains that would bring me to tears and take me out of commission for the rest of the day.  Deeming myself suddenly allergic, I stopped eating eggs and life was fine (I can still eat foods with eggs in them, just not anything where eggs is the main dish).  Then suddenly within the last couple of months I'm getting these pains every so often with various other foods.  One time we went to the Olive Garden and about five minutes after leaving the pain was so severe I really thought I was going to pass out.  I was in tears and just a mess for the rest of the day.  This happened again with The Olive Garden, so we decided that I must not be able to eat pasta or salad anymore.  Then one night at home we had salad with dinner and I got really sick again (and again another time!)  So now what?  Now I can't eat eggs or salad?!!  THEN I just had chicken and salad for lunch today and there are the stupid stomach pains again.  Certainly I cannot be allergic to salad!  Who the heck is allergic to SALAD?!  So now my DH is thinking that I may very well not be allergic to eggs after all, just that my stomach is having some kind of reaction to them the same as with the salad.

But what the heck could it possibly be?  I've tried searching online one time while suffering with these pains and the answers I got were so wide spread that I was even more confused!

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sun, 02-26-2006 - 5:12pm

Hi Jennifer!


Welcome to the board!

 
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Mon, 02-27-2006 - 9:27am

Hi Lynn.

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Mon, 02-27-2006 - 8:47pm

Hey Jennifer,


I hope your doctor's appointment goes well.

 
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Tue, 02-28-2006 - 11:19am
Thanks Lynn for the great questions!