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[the_rck]

Okay, basil is definitely on the list of things I shouldn't eat. I'm really regretting that pesto pizza. I should have passed it by. It's been eight hours, and I can still taste basil. No wonder I can't eat Italian food-- Basil and oregano both give me trouble. (And tomatoes and peppers and...)

Maybe having that surgery would be a good thing. I could find out if I like peppers and tomatoes. (Almost all of the foods I say I dislike are things that give me digestive trouble.) I'd be able to eat cucumbers and iceberg lettuce without regretting it. I'm not sure I'd want to, but I could.

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[scribblemoose]

Do you have nut allergies as well? I know several people who've been caught out by the pine nuts in pesto. Or the parmesan, or garlic - pesto is a bit of an allergen-combo, really!

[the_rck]

I'm allergic to walnuts and peanuts but not other nuts.

I'm pretty sure the problem was the basil. That's what I could still taste twelve hours later. I should have remembered that I've had trouble with it in the past. It's just that I was hungry and that they didn't have any other options I could eat.

[(Anonymous)]

Even if you don't like them, being able to eat *something* when you're hungry and dependent on other people, and having a wider range of somethings that are safe, might be worth it. That's something you'd have to weigh, but it seems like your odds of being able to just grab a bite to eat that won't bite back later would get better.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

oooo...I have a cast iron stomach and pesto sauce can sometimes heartburn even me, and I love the stuff. I think it's the combo of basil and garlic and pine nuts...

Have you heard anything on the percentages of success rate on the surgery? I know they are yapping at me about back surgery...the rates aren't that good there, but I usually what I hear is it doesn't make anything worse, just doesn't make it necessarily better either, so I may give it a shot. My mom had a hietal? hernia and a lot of the same things that bother you gave her problems. Strangely, drinking a little beer seemed to help settle hers down, but that's not necessarily a solution for everyone :D

[the_rck]

I don't know anything about the success rate of the surgery. I won't find that out until I do my consult with the surgeon (I have to figure out how to get the surgeon my SIL recommended. I think it's important). What I was told, years ago, was that it works but that it fails after a few years. So it's a question of how long the relief lasts rather than whether or not the surgery will work to begin with.

I hate beer, so I'm unlikely to try that as a solution. I do find that, sometimes, a bit of ice cream can help. It didn't help last night, but sometimes it does.

[leorising1959.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, if I may: cucumbers taste great and have medicinal properties that my body likes, so yes. Iceberg lettuce, OTOH, is just water with crunch: hardly any taste and the nutrition tally is almost nil. You're not missing anything there!

I eat romaine, and if the romaine is bad that week, I'll get red leaf. This is also one area where organic really pays off in taste and nutrition, since one usu. eats them raw (cooked food loses certain nutrients, but other nutrients are "liberated". Raw food, for me, is hard to absorb.)

[the_rck]

I don't expect to seek out iceberg lettuce. It's just that i get it sometimes at restaurants in the salad before the main dish, and when I do, it haunts me for hours.

We buy romaine. We can't get most other lettuces because Cordelia won't eat lettuce unless it's green (she says the other stuff is too bitter).