Making a list...

[feuervogel]

What I've eaten since I got out of the hospital, day by day. (cut for your convenience)

glass ginger ale (Schweppe's)
4 oz applesauce
handful m&ms
arugula & mesclun salad with EVOO & balsamic vinegar, water, more ginger ale
Tazo plum pomegranate green tea
Dole fruit cup
handful potato chips, hot dog roll (whole wheat)
more applesauce

result: didn't want solid food for breakfast Monday.


4 oz applesauce
bowl dry frosted mini wheats (over the course of about 3 hours)
unknown lunch
pizza for dinner (home)

result: did not note any nausea on symptom diary, but only wanted applesauce for breakfast.


applesauce
frosted mini wheats (see above)
WSM hummus & Med Deli pita for lunch
pizza (Pepper's white slice with spinach, artichoke hearts, and feta)
1 oz chocolate and ginger

result: no appetite next AM, despite having wanted to eat normal breakfast; fatigue in AM


Dole fruit cup
Stretch Island fruit leather (mango flavor)
dried pineapple ring (WSM)
instant miso soup (gluten free)
onigiri (sushi rice, rice vinegar, nori)
WSM hummus & Utz tortillas (corn, no soy, gluten free)
pizza (home)

result: stomach pain/gas at bedtime; nausea & fatigue in AM.


applesauce
ginger ale (Knudsen's)
Dole fruit cup
cinnamon spice black tea (Caribou)
Kind Fruit & Nut bar (apricot-almond) (gluten free, contains soy lecithin)
8 oz GF veggie stock
Blue Diamond hazelnut thins

result: 2 hours after fruit/nut bar, became nauseous. Took antacid, waited.
- Don't know whether antacid helped or if it just passed (which has been known to happen.)
- Lactobacillus capsules contain soy lecithin.

Could it be soy? That would be unfortunate. Soy is in every goddamn thing. It would be less annoying than wheat, anyway...

Comments

[miome.livejournal.com]

Are you drinking tap water? On one odd occasion, back when we lived in Raleigh, I had gastro-intestinal issues for about a week, much longer than virii usually last for me. I finally caught a pattern where it was being triggered when I drank tap water. Once I switched to bottled water, it cleared right up. After a few weeks it was fine to drink tap water again. ( Maybe something was blooming, or they were treating the water for something seasonal? )

It's a long shot, but that would be a lot less annoying that soy or wheat ...

[feuervogel]

I do drink tap water. I can try using the pitcher for a while, I guess... This has been going on intermittently for almost 2 months now.

But I wasn't as sick when I woke up this morning, just tired and no appetite, so maybe something I didn't eat yesterday (wheat, cheese) made it better.

[miome.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry that, in saying this, I conflated a one-week illness with one that's been going on for two months. Obviously what's going on with you is much more serious. It wasn't my intention to diminish that, and I really regret that it came across that way.

[feuervogel]

I wasn't thinking of your comment when I wrote that :( (And I've been drinking filtered or bottled water mostly.)

I'm desperate for solutions at this point, and anything that might help I'm willing to try (within reason). I mean, I've heard everything from "my cousin had West Nile Virus, then she developed celiac disease" to "Did you eat something bad?" And I'm frustrated by this whole thing (obviously...)

And I understand that people are trying to express sympathy and empathy and all those things humans do, and I shouldn't be a callous jerk and throw that off, but it's like, sometimes things come across as "off the wall suggestion" and that's OK, because like I said, desperate (because all the obvious things have been tried and rejected), but sometimes it's more like the person doesn't quite get that there's this thing called "difference in scope and magnitude" (yet they're trying to be nice... so I shouldn't be a jerk...)

So it's all a big frustrating mess.

[miome.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear we're good. :) And I totally get what you're saying about well-meant but irritating comments, that's totally a level of stress you don't need on top of everything else.

[skogkatt.livejournal.com]

So this is kind of dumb and potentially unuseful, but the fruit and nut bar would be a much higher fiber thing than everything else you ate that day, and that could make your tender torn up GI tract more irritated because fiber basically goes in and scrapes at the walls. This is generally good when one isn't already ill, but I've known a lot of basically healthy people who've started a high fiber diet and gotten a lot of pain at first. Not saying this is what's going on, especially as the nausea is not really what I'd expect, but seemed worth noting.

If I were you, I'd probably want to do an elimination diet with just rice for a bit and then slowly add in one thing at a time. Also, did you mention the cancer thing to your PCP?

[feuervogel]

*checks the label* 5g fiber per bar. Hmm, that's another possibility. Though I haven't had ... issues below the stomach for a few days now.

I did mention it, and she said that if the GI results come back negative and the GI doc can't figure it out, she'll send me for an ultrasound.