Oh C'mon, Esophagus [medical]

[marydell]

So I have chronic esophagitis, probably this version, although since I'm not in the mood for a biopsy I don't know for sure; maybe it's just garden-variety allergic esophagitis.  Anyway, this means that I get terrible reflux, difficulty swallowing, and sometimes also vomiting, if I eat foods on my no-fly list, or if I eat too much of them, anyway.  Milk and eggs are the main culprits.

Tomato also causes me sorrow, or so I thought, but the reality is that I generally only eat tomato in two contexts.  One is sandwiches, and one is pasta.

Lately it's been bad for no clear reason--no matter what I eat, I have trouble, it seems.  Except...chips and salsa.  It defies all my expectations, what with being full of tomato and also a little jalapeno (very mild salsa).  Eating this and guacamole for dinner for half a week cleared up all the esophageal pain and let me sleep properly. Very odd.  So I then went way over the edge and had some tortilla soup, which has some poblano pepper in it.  Felt great. Slept great, no issues.

Decided to have the same soup for lunch the next day, this time in a bread bowl. Entire upper GI tract on fire within an hour of eating it.  Tried eating various soothing things (in addition to taking zantac, tums, and advil for it's anti-inflammatory properties).  Soothing things like graham crackers. Up 5 times that night with reflux, sick for the next couple of days...days spent viruously eating mild food in sandwich form.

Got Chinese for dinner last night.  Chicken, shrimp, rice, veggies, some kind of sauce.  No problem. Slept great. Today had chips, salsa, guac, and chicken for lunch.  Feel great.

ARGH, argh, arg.  Signs point to wheat allergy. DAMN IT. 

 

Comments

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

noooooOOOOOooooOOOOOOOOO not a wheat allergy!

Oh, my sympathies. Damnit.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Wharfargbl. That said, I was dx'd with wheat allergy a while back, and except for missing sandwiches and non-rice pasta, I was surprised with how well I adjusted.

My sympathies to you and your esophagus.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Oh, bleah. I'm sorry.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Well, at least there's a way to feel great?

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's actually how I'm looking at it, at the moment, although once I don't feel like shit I'm sure I'll forget that element of things and just want cookies. But it had gotten so bad that some days I couldn't bend down to pick up stuff from the floor without having reflux, so if this is the answer, I think I'll be fine with it.