weird stomach/abdominal pangs

[tielan]

Just pangs - kind of like period cramps, only lite. Briefly painful then easing back.

Might be food related - I've been eating a lot of wheat-based things lately, when I used to have a very protein/plant based diet. Have to go back to simple stuff again. Also, my abdomen has swollen quite a bit - too many of my trousers don't fit anymore. This is a vanity worry more than anything else.

I'm starting to get really nervous here - in the last three years, just everything seems to have gone wrong. Which, admittedly, is better than the last thirty years, but still daunting, since my expected lifespan is likely to be another forty.

IDK.

Comments

[bridgetmkennitt]

<3 I hope you feel better and that it's nothing serious.

[tielan]

Thank you! <3

[monanotlisa]

Unfortunately, as you know, there's a million reasons for your GI tract being unhappy.

Fortunately, this sounds transitional! So maybe dialling back the unrefined carbs helps (I never have issues with whole-grain rice and grasses).

For what it's worth, many people have issues with legumes the way you describe; I do. I still eat them because it's not like pain-pain, but I don't eat them often for that reason.

[tielan]

*hugs*

I haven't had any legumes lately, certainly not in those quantities. Still, I think less carbs would not be a bad idea. Particularly after Vietnam and Singapore.

[kore]

I also have to go back to eating better. And cooking. And using lots of fresh produce. Herr Pancreas is Displeased.

[tielan]

I have no idea WHAT is giving me issues right now, but I think I might have to start keeping a food diary with details of what I'm eating and how it affects me...

[kore]

Yeah, my doc told me the two best ways to find out why your digestion is off, if it's not some wossname illness thing, are keeping a food diary, and trying elimination diets. Like, the actual strict kind, where you eliminate dairy for 2 weeks or whatever. Keeping a food diary mainly revealed to me how much terrible junk food I was eating.