Cheese sticks and Crohn's Disease

[Lisa5326]

So! I went to a department outing last night, it was at a local sports bar and they had lots of very bad bad food. I was good all night, had water, no alcoholic drinks, anything more than a single glass of wine makes me nauseous, it is unfortunate. Anyways, so i was good, i get up to leave, happen to pass by the food warmers where the waitress had just piled a TON of freshly fried cheese sticks, which I LOVE(D). I grabbed one. One. Ate it, it was good. Real good. Within 20 mins the burning begins...lasts all night, wake up this morning, still burning and I have a massive headache. Feel. Hung. Over. Hence, goodbye cheese sticks. If one 2-3 bites of something messes me up for 18 hours it is not worth it. Ugh, i loved them, those cheesey sticks...

Just thought I would share...any one else have stories of the (supposed) last day(s) of a food?

 

[forum contributor]

Oh no hunny!!!

Not mozzarella sticks... those are one of my favs too. I'm sorry

I have that with onion rings and carrots. Do you have a problem with cheese in other things? Or fried foods?

 

[Lisa5326]

Fried foods all the way--I eat tons TONS of cheese...but if you fry anything, I'm screwed, yet i didn't know how touchy I was. I suppose it keeps me healthier?

 

[forum contributor]

Fried foods all the way--I eat tons TONS of cheese...but if you fry anything, I'm screwed, yet i didn't know how touchy I was. I suppose it keeps me healthier?

Wow... I feel for ya!

What if you bought them at a store and baked them?

 

[Lisa5326]

Yeah maybe! Hmm, I wonder what it is exactly that causes the 'bad', is it vegetable oil then? Cause there is oil in cheese but just different oil...

 

[DanSJVDavis]

Not suggesting it'll work for you, but I've noticed that when a different oil is used, like Peanut oil, I tend not to have bad problems. I make my own fried chicken and onion rings and cheese sticks and fried fish all the time and usually don't have any issues. One trick I use; a bit before I eat it, I take an antacid and antigas. Sometimes it helps. Generally, your body will produce more bile to help carry the fat/oil through the bowels to be absorbed. I think it also is used to help process stomach acid, but I don't know for sure. The ileum also works to process the bile/oil IIRC, and in my case, that part of my bowel is nonexistent and probably doesn't function right. I've also hypothesized that that's why I get bowel pain from time to time that's associated with major gas and D, but that's another story. When I have a lot of heartburn I get bowel pain with major gurgling, gas and eventual burning D and when I control the heartburn I don't have that problem, go figure. Excess oil/bile in the large bowel creates gas, I've seemed to notice.

 

[Lisa5326]

I always thought antacids reduced the acid in your stomach or neutralized it, which didn't make sense to me because that is the natural environment for the stomach...acidic and so I would think that it would make the hurt worse or something.
But if they increase bile then that makes more sense to me...I just might try the antigas antacid combo to see if it works...wish I would've done that last night...

thanks dan

 

[DanSJVDavis]

Actually, what I meant was that bile normally is used to carry the oil through the bowels to be absorbed. The antacid doesn't make the pancreas create more.

The natural environment in the stomach is acidic, but, at least in my case, there's acidic, and then overacidic. I firmly believe that mine kinda goes overboard. I always have heartburn. Always. Eating fried foods and drinking alcohol creates more acid. When I combat that I don't get bowel pains. I'm bout certain that I digest that acid and it doesn't get processed. When it doesn't get processed it irritates my bowels and causes inflammation, gas and burning D that feels like I'm crapping napalm. It's a theory. I've been told I'm wrong before, but no one gives me any other explanation why my butt's not raw, but when I go it feels like I ate habanero peppers.

All I know is that if I control the heartburn, I control the pain and gas when I drink alcohol and eat spicy or greasy foods.

 

[Lisa5326]

Aah ok, i get it.

thinking about some cheesesticks and baking them as a reward for liq diet for three days...bad idea? probably... (sorry to those on a liquid diet 24/7, i really do feel for you, and I hope you feel better soon)

 

[Lisa5326]

I know I know I will wait...

Having my good ol' mashed potatoes and baked corn chips today, thanks mom ! I'll be good...was just thinkin'...

 

[autumn_rose]

Aaaaaw, bummer, Shantel! But I feel ya. Same thing happened with me the other night, only it was about a measurement cup's worth of peach ice cream. But it's just not worth it to be in the long agony, in exchange for a brief moment of tasty. Have we heard the old saying something along the line of "a moment on your lips means years on your hips"... well... I'm sure it can be adapted to suite us, haha.