Sudden Food Sensitivity?

[Gnome Rage]

I've eaten red meat all my life, never even thought to be a vegetarian for one second. I don't really like poultry all that much but I've always loved my food still bleeding. Anyways, over the summer my boyfriend and his friends and I have been doing a weekly BBQ all was well until about 3 weeks ago. I got extremely sick after dinner, but it was about 4 or 5 hours later. No idea why.

I figured it was just something bad that I ate... except now I've been feeling kinda queasy every time I eat red meat, I do fine with chicken even though I don't really like it. But I haven't gotten sick since, just discomfort/stomach ache.

I came home for the weekend, low and behold a BBQ! I got sick.

No idea where this could have come from. Has anyone else randomly become sensitive to a food they've eaten their entire life without problem? Do you know why?

Just curious here, if this keeps up I'm going to see someone about it but I'd rather not see another doctor this week.

[BriarFox]

You should not have had that awesome beach sex and got t3h preggers and t3h red meat would not be gross now!

[Gnome Rage]

re-reading that it does make me sound stupid and pregnant but I've had my period (FOR EVERYONE WHO NEEDED TO KNOW) since this all started, and it was normal

[BriarFox]

On a less teasing note, it might just be that you became so sick on the first occasion that your body thinks all red meat is bad now. Try small amounts and see if you can start to eat it again. I got ferociously sick off McDonald's once and afterward I could never eat the same sandwich again.

For ease of comprehension, here's an imaginary dialogue:

Mouth: Mmm! BBQ, baby, oh, yeah.
Stomach: Oh, hell no.
Mouth: Mmmhm, here it comes!
Stomach: FUUUU.

[Delias]

My sister got a pretty nasty surgery where they actually fused her lung to the inside of her rib cage... and was not able to stand the sight, smell, or taste of red meat for about two years. Now she will eat bacon (not red meat, but best meat) and that's about it.

[Kuyuk]

Soy products give me gas that have killed small plants and children.

[Gnome Rage]

My sister got a pretty nasty surgery where they actually fused her lung to the inside of her rib cage... and was not able to stand the sight, smell, or taste of red meat for about two years. Now she will eat bacon (not red meat, but best meat) and that's about it.

that sounds awful. My brother thinks this is all in my head but I don't even think about it. It doesn't happen when I'm thinking "Oh my god will I puke later?" it happens when I want to sleep. like now... 1 hr later, I've got a glass of water and about 8 ritz in my stomach

[Delias]

Just because something is all in your head doesn't mean it's something you are consciously thinking about.

[Asha]

I keep re reading that to try understand it

[iJin]

Drayal, are you drunk?

[Delias]

I keep re reading that to try understand it

The majority of your brain is occupied with things other than your thought-stream.

[Sam]

Just stop eating meat.

[Warriorbird]

Sometimes allergies work like that. My sister didn't end up allergic to shrimp and stuff until she was relatively old. Now she can't be near shellfish.

[radamanthys]

Gall bladder giving out on ya, perhaps?

[Michaelous]

try eating some sausage

[IorakeWarhammer]

ok gnome rage

if you believed 1 post from all my posts in history, believe this one

you should fast for 2-3 days. like, begin every day fasting after breakfast at 6am, and then break your fast with dates and water at 7pm. eat normally at night.

you probably got some bug. a fast will clear you out and heal you up.

[Sam]

Don't do it.. It's a magic spell!

[MotleyCrew]

Most likely you may have an allergy to what they are feeding the cows. Soy or milk products can cause those kinds of reactions and they are common in cattle feed.

[Gnome Rage]

Just stop eating meat.

... hahahahaha. No. Never.


Gall bladder giving out on ya, perhaps?

I really hope not, but my mother had to have her Gall bladder removed so I guess it would be possible.


Most likely you may have an allergy to what they are feeding the cows. Soy or milk products can cause those kinds of reactions and they are common in cattle feed.

Wouldn't they be feeding something similar to chickens and pigs and such? I mean, I don't know shit about raising animals so I'm probably wrong but I thought they got some of the same stuff.

[Delias]

... hahahahaha. No. Never.



I really hope not, but my mother had to have her Gall bladder removed so I guess it would be possible.



Wouldn't they be feeding something similar to chickens and pigs and such? I mean, I don't know shit about raising animals so I'm probably wrong but I thought they got some of the same stuff.

I thought you said you used to have chickens.

[B4Hand]

I thought you said you used to have chickens.

Silly Delias,

What people who keep chickens feed their chickens,and what mass producers feed their chickens..totally different! :)

[Drisco]

When I was a kid I knew I was getting sick from the smell of Ketchup. I'd honestly go to the fridge open the cap of Ketchup and smell it. If it smelled normal I wasn't sick, if it smelled acrid and made me almost vomit I knew I was getting sick. It actually worked no lie. Anytime it smelled bad I would get a sore throat, ear ache, sinus infection or anything.

Oh and I got food poisoning if everyone here remembers my thread. I couldn't eat meat for a week after or I'd get sick. I don't know what I was thinking the next day trying to down a steak. Tsk tsk.

[ViridianAsp]

I actually have sensitivity to oatmeal and now coffee.

It's happened over the last few years, they are both things I absolutely love and now, I'm totally allergic to.

Oatmeal I can't even eat anymore with out my tonsils puffing up and becoming sore, and coffee leaves me in agony and doubled over in horrible stomach pain.

I've heard that it sometimes happens as you get older? I don't know if it is serious...but yeah.

[diethx]

I actually have sensitivity to oatmeal and now coffee.

It's happened over the last few years, they are both things I absolutely love and now, I'm totally allergic to.

Oatmeal I can't even eat anymore with out my tonsils puffing up and becoming sore, and coffee leaves me in agony and doubled over in horrible stomach pain.

I've heard that it sometimes happens as you get older? I don't know if it is serious...but yeah.

You heard right - you can develop allergies to anything at any time in your life, which is really lousy. I was never allergic to anything until a year or so after I moved to the south and I started getting seasonal allergies (they'd begin around spring break in March). That only lasted a couple of years though, I seem to have lost them and am now allergic to nothing again. That could happen to you too, but if you have such severe reactions I don't know if it'd be worth testing it.

That's awful though, oatmeal and coffee are both so awesome. :(

[Gnome Rage]

I ate today and don't feel too sick. But it wasn't red meat. I don't want to push myself but I'm trying to decide if its the meat or maybe the cigar smoke from when they all play poker.

The only time I've actually gotten sick is when cigars are present, but I still do feel queasy when I eat red meat with not other irritants.

Ps. I'd be pissed if I couldn't drink coffee, I started drinking coffee at 4 years old... sooo. I feel so bad for you man.

[4a6c1]

Silly Face!!!!

Preggering up tha worlds sluts since 1979. Or something.

He should have a disclaimer.

[Asha]

Just stop eating red meat for a while and give yourself time to recover. What's the rush?
It reminds me Rocco's Modern Life, when the cow eats a piece of Chokey Chicken and chokes, only to be saved and him then try eating the same piece and choking again.

[Amber]

My nephew has what's known as a "conditioned food aversion" to any meat. Basically, when he eats meat, any meat, he throws up, always. His Dr. said it's a psychological thing, where his sub-conscious associates eating meat with throwing up, which causes him to become nauseous. It's believed to be a survival mechanism, which was useful to primitive peoples but is obviously less useful now. His aversion seems to have originated from being fed rotten meat when he was a toddler living with his drug-addict mom, which is a long story I won't go into here. His Dr. said he'll probably outgrow it eventually, but in the meantime, he's supposed to have one bite of meat every couple of days as a conditioning therapy.

Anyway, it sounds like maybe you have the same sort of thing going on? You probably really should see a Dr. if it keeps up.

[Delias]

Silly Delias,

What people who keep chickens feed their chickens,and what mass producers feed their chickens..totally different! :)

This is not my point. My point was, she relates an experience wherein she apparently knows about raising animals, and then says she doesn't know anything about raising animals. Both statements cannot be true. One must be false. This makes her a liar. How dare you lie on the internet.

[Gnome Rage]

This is not my point. My point was, she relates an experience wherein she apparently knows about raising animals, and then says she doesn't know anything about raising animals. Both statements cannot be true. One must be false. This makes her a liar. How dare you lie on the internet.

Okay let me correct - I don't know anything about raising animals on a LARGE scale

[Delias]

Okay let me correct - I don't know anything about raising animals on a LARGE scale

Too late. I now know for a fact you cannot be trusted. Before I simply suspected... but now I have the confirmation. I know it was you, gnomey, you broke my heart.

[Sylvan Dreams]

A friend of mine started out with a sensitivity to foods with eggs in them, and then that turned into a food sensitivity to anything poultry (including eggs), and now that has compounded to include a sensitivity to red meat. I don't know if she has an issue with pork. I believe the end result was that she developed an allergy to the type of protein in meat/eggs. The allergy also manifests when she eats organic meat/eggs, too. It's really turned out to be a HORRIBLE allergy. She's had to write off red meat, poultry, eggs, and things with eggs from her diet (pancakes, waffles, cake, muffins, noodles, etc.).

[DCSL]

A friend of mine started out with a sensitivity to foods with eggs in them, and then that turned into a food sensitivity to anything poultry (including eggs), and now that has compounded to include a sensitivity to red meat. I don't know if she has an issue with pork. I believe the end result was that she developed an allergy to the type of protein in meat/eggs. The allergy also manifests when she eats organic meat/eggs, too. It's really turned out to be a HORRIBLE allergy. She's had to write off red meat, poultry, eggs, and things with eggs from her diet (pancakes, waffles, cake, muffins, noodles, etc.).

I wouldn't want to live anymore.

[Amber]

A friend of mine started out with a sensitivity to foods with eggs in them, and then that turned into a food sensitivity to anything poultry (including eggs), and now that has compounded to include a sensitivity to red meat. I don't know if she has an issue with pork. I believe the end result was that she developed an allergy to the type of protein in meat/eggs. The allergy also manifests when she eats organic meat/eggs, too. It's really turned out to be a HORRIBLE allergy. She's had to write off red meat, poultry, eggs, and things with eggs from her diet (pancakes, waffles, cake, muffins, noodles, etc.).


Do her allergies include turkey too? My allergist said very few people have allergies to turkey, so it was one of the few foods I could eat when I was on my elimination diet to try to figure out what's causing my allergies. Now, after reading your post, I'm wondering if the reason we couldn't identify any might be due to an allergy to turkey too? Eggs weren't identified as an actual allergen, but an irritant. If I'm having a mild allergic reaction, eggs don't make a noticeable difference, but if I'm having a bad one, eggs make it much worse.