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[the_rck]

My body is giving me a hard time again this morning. I think that last night’s birthday dinner did me no favors and that trying to eat the leftovers for breakfast was a mistake. Fried foods are apparently Not Good right now. It might also be because I had a little bit of fruit last night. Fruit seems to give me more problems than vegetables do. It’s always been that way, and I don’t know why. I’m not sure what’s in fruit that’s not in vegetables.

We went to the local Japanese restaurant for dinner last night because Cordelia wanted California rolls. She’s getting more adventurous in terms of trying different things off the sushi menu.

Of the three books I ordered from Bookbound for Cordelia’s birthday, only two came in. They’re not sure when they’ll have the third, possibly Friday. The three books are part of a seven book series. Cordelia already owned the first three, and I ordered the seventh from Amazon because the guy at Bookbound said he couldn’t get it in time for Cordelia’s birthday. All three of the others, he promised me, would be in some time yesterday afternoon.

In terms of Ingress, portals in the neighborhood turned over four or five times last night. One guy from the other side took out our science center portals at 4 a.m. when the park was officially closed. I’d like to take back some of the less heavily defended portals, but that’s going to depend on how I’m feeling later. I’m currently waiting for a cab to take me to an appointment, and I don’t know how I’m going to feel after. If I feel good, I may walk around campus a bit. I don’t know.

Comments

[kyrielle]

Hmm. I hesitate to say this because odds are you are familiar, but are you familiar with the low FODMAP diet for IBS? There are quite a few problematic fruits and some problematic vegetables. (Types of carbohydrates are the problem, and fruits in general have more sugars.)

[the_rck]

The thing is that, when I'm not stressed/anxious, I don't have IBS at all. Up until last August, I would have a couple of hours of trouble every few months. Before today, it has never once happened on a day when I had something that I absolutely had to do, and I see that as an indication that there's a huge psychosomatic component.

[kyrielle]

Stress can and does trigger/exacerbate IBS, but so do foods with FODMAPs. It's possible that while you're under stress, it might be worth seeing if a low-FODMAP diet helps - or even shifting just a few items that direction. (If you decide you want to look at that, Stanford has a good PDF listing of low vs. high FODMAP foods.)

[the_rck]

At this point, the difficulties I've been having are most likely due to thyroid issues. I'm going to see what comes of adjusting that medication before I try to upend my diet entirely.

[kelsusie.livejournal.com]

Some fruit, like blackberries, bother me. Its a shame cause I love them. Usually, fruits with seeds will bother ibs. I can eat other fruit, in moderation though. Too much watermelon does a number on me.

[the_rck]

Most of the time, I'm fine with fruit. Well, most of the time in the last fifteen years since I stopped working. Something about me being very stressed out makes fruit bad, even something like a banana that would give most people constipation.

I think this is hitting me harder because I got in the habit of actually eating fruit. I didn't eat fruit, except for small amounts on special occasions, for many many years.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

We went out last night with a group of Ingress players that were all hacking portals, trading gear, drinking beer and talking. It was a lot of fun so I'm even more intrigued by this wacky game.

[the_rck]

It can be fun. If you're in a place and have time to wander around but no particular goal, it can give you a focus. I find that doing it on the way to medical appointments is helpful, too, because it distracts me from what I'm going to have to deal with (and the money I'm spending on the cab).

I'm just a bit boggled by the guy who came through our neighborhood three times last night-- around 7, around 10, and around 4. Does he have no other life?

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

At risk of driving you crazy: Have you considered trying gluten-free for a few weeks, to see if that helps?

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Fruit has far more fructose than vegetables, so it could be that your body doesn't produce enough of the fructase enzyme that helps to digest the fructose. This is similar to lactose intolerance, but for fructose instead of lactose. (And both can be connected to celiac disease: Villi are tiny bumps in the small intestine that absorb nutrients from food, and they also produce both lactase and fructase. In celiac disease, the immune system attacks the villi, which random prevents absorption of some nutrients, and it also damages their ability to produce those enzymes.)

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Another thought: Have you tried taking digestive enzymes? Those usually include the enzymes to digest fructose, so if you are having fructose intolerance issues, enzymes should help. Digestive enzymes were life-changing to me, so I am a big fan. Unless you are sensitive to a component that they are made from, they are very safe to try. The kind I take is called "Enzymedica Digest Gold." From what you have said, this sounds like it could potentially be a really good match to the problems you've been having.

Probiotics can help too. I would say that taking digestive enzymes solved about 85% of my problems, and probiotics were the other 15%.

[the_rck]

I'm trying to figure out how oral enzymes could help with fructose when most of it is broken down in the liver. It would be nice to have the option to eat something beyond simple carbs when something like this happens. This is the longest run of trouble I've had since I was working.

Of course, having the colonoscopy dead in the middle of it did not help at all.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

(I know nobody else but me cares, but that should say "randomly," not "random." I tried editing it, but LiveJournal said I can't because someone (me!) has replied to it.)

[the_rck]

I'm 95% sure that this is an anxiety thing. I used to have this problem pretty constantly during the last few years that I worked, and this morning is the first time I can remember it ever interfering with me doing something that I needed to do (and I still made it to my appointment). The fact that it pretty much only traps me at home when nothing terrible will happen if I don't go out makes me think there has to be a heavy psychological component.

Up until last fall, I hadn't had problems above once every couple of months since before Cordelia was born (and the bits during pregnancy were something else altogether, I think).