Meat is making me sick!!!

[wookiewun]

For nearly my entire senior year I was having Diarreah on a daily basis for weeks at a time. I went to the doctor and was prescribed medications.

I have tried cutting out sugar and caffeine. I don't ever eat fast food. I have had colonoscopies that have showed nothing. The doctors said that is wasn't colitis or IBS. I was taking a medication called Asacol. I have since stopped taking it since I was experiencing cramps, head aches and still having occaisional bouts of diarreah. I was also taking Culturelle. It stopped the diarreah while I was taking it ,but the diarreah came back after the first day of stopping use.

I am now a freshman in college having to eat dining hall food. I haven't been sick this entire time. However I started eating these sandwiches for lunch and would get sick. I also would get sick on the weekends. So I have realized that the only thing I ate differently was meat. The dining hall serves mostly processed meat so I haven't been eating meat here. I do however eat it at home. I also thought about when I was in highschool, we have meat as the main course for every meal. So what I am wondering what may have caused me to start getting sick when I eat meat and it there any other way to control it rather than medicines because so far everything I have taken gives me nausea or a headache.I would like to be able to eat meat because I enjoy meat but right now it is not worth being sick to do it.

I have gotten sick eating every kind of meat proceseed, unprocessed, red meats, white meats, with the exception of fish (it hasn't ever made me sick).

any suggestions will be appreciated.

[danimal15]

Have you added yogurt to your diet?

I agree you should stay away from processed meats. What's your fruit and vegetable intake? Perhaps you're getting too much fiber from those sources. Try Metamucil - it will provide the fiber you need for bulk.

Good luck.

[da_brown3]

Wookie~
I would have your doctor test you for Celiac. You may be having trouble processing gluten. Good luck and let us know what you find out. One way you can find out is try cutting gluten out of your diet for a while and see if that helps.

[DazedandConfused]

Im the same way..they diagnosed me with IBS 6 years ago..but as for now they believe it might be sumthing more..but tests comes up negative..i cant eat meat..when i do..i get so nauseated and lives in the bathroom....as for fish..i eat it all the time..never makes me sick....so i eat fish and veggies and fruit....i am thinking its the fat content in animal meat that does this,,..i cant digest fat very well at all..and the most frustrating thing from wut i have is..the scales goes up and down..i loose weight very rapidly..stays like this for bout 6 monthsor so..then the scales go up just as fast..lasts a few months..then i loose it all over again without doing anything differently..i have been like this for 6 years..i buy new clothes ..they fit perfect..but then months down the road i have to buy new ones cause the other ones r either too big or too small..im just fed up with it all..constant cycle in my life..im always tired...my nails and hair dont grow the best no more...i have been diagnosed with anemia too..which might be doing that to me...like i have chronic fatigue 24/7..and my 2 kids keeps me busy ...so i get no rest..just feels like my body is giving out on me and no one knows why..and with my anemia i am supposed to be taking 2 iron pills a day..but were cut down to 1 cause they upset my digestive tract..so im not getting the amount i need..one specialist said i might have a absorbtion problem..and others say its only IBS..what is scary is that im afraid this might be chrohns or collitus down the road ..but the docs say there is no signs of that...i wish i had a cure for what Ails me

Take Care

DazedandConfused

[tcr1016]

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