Linda1629
11-29-2005, 07:56 AM
Hi,
My husband has had some digestive problems spanning many years. He currently takes Pepcid on a daily basis because he swears if he doesn't then he'll have heartburn no matter what he eats or doesn't eat. He also is on several other medications including Lipitor, something for high blood pressure, and some anti-anxiety medication but I'm not sure what that is (alaprazolam or something like that). He is also quite overweight (probably 80 pounds or so).
Anyway....he's now complaining that he can't have gravy or he'll have to vomit. He makes himself vomit because he says his stomach feels terrible. He says the vomitting relieves the pressure on his stomach. I thought maybe it was the fat in the gravy but no, he'll just pour the fat directly from the beef rather than have the gravy and supposedly that doesn't bother him. Then I thought, well, maybe it's the flour (celiac) but he certainly eats enough bread where that theory doesn't pan out. So, could it possibly be the combination of the fat and the flour? He eats bread with butter and that's not a problem but gravy makes him ill every time (so he says).
You may sense a bit of skeptisism in this post. I do think he is possibly imagining this whole thing. Doesn't seem likely to me that he can have all the fat he wants without a problem but add a little flour and off to the bathroom he goes. I've asked him to check this out with his doctor and he says he will but he doesn't have another appointment for 3 months and his doctor is terrible anyway, he'll probably just prescribe something for an ulcer. He really needs to go in there with some kind of idea of what's going on. He just sees a GP and it's a clinic so he's just a number when he goes in there.
Any ideas? Is there some kind of condition that can cause someone to be ill when eating just one specific food, even if those ingredients can all be eaten at other times? Thanks for any insight you can give.
My husband has had some digestive problems spanning many years. He currently takes Pepcid on a daily basis because he swears if he doesn't then he'll have heartburn no matter what he eats or doesn't eat. He also is on several other medications including Lipitor, something for high blood pressure, and some anti-anxiety medication but I'm not sure what that is (alaprazolam or something like that). He is also quite overweight (probably 80 pounds or so).
Anyway....he's now complaining that he can't have gravy or he'll have to vomit. He makes himself vomit because he says his stomach feels terrible. He says the vomitting relieves the pressure on his stomach. I thought maybe it was the fat in the gravy but no, he'll just pour the fat directly from the beef rather than have the gravy and supposedly that doesn't bother him. Then I thought, well, maybe it's the flour (celiac) but he certainly eats enough bread where that theory doesn't pan out. So, could it possibly be the combination of the fat and the flour? He eats bread with butter and that's not a problem but gravy makes him ill every time (so he says).
You may sense a bit of skeptisism in this post. I do think he is possibly imagining this whole thing. Doesn't seem likely to me that he can have all the fat he wants without a problem but add a little flour and off to the bathroom he goes. I've asked him to check this out with his doctor and he says he will but he doesn't have another appointment for 3 months and his doctor is terrible anyway, he'll probably just prescribe something for an ulcer. He really needs to go in there with some kind of idea of what's going on. He just sees a GP and it's a clinic so he's just a number when he goes in there.
Any ideas? Is there some kind of condition that can cause someone to be ill when eating just one specific food, even if those ingredients can all be eaten at other times? Thanks for any insight you can give.