Indigestion after eating

Syntria

Hello!

I know this doesn't sound like it fits here, but it does!

I'm going to start a 'real foods' diet tomorrow. I'm still going to eat normally but just avoid processed foods and anything with added sugar to the best of my ability.

The last two or three weeks I've been getting indigestion/heart-burn. Very sudden, almost daily, and always after a meal. I've never had this before. ;_;

I'm on the 3rd month of a 3 month run of antibiotics for a skin-condition (tummy biology could be way off?) I've read that most probiotics in foods rarely do much in yoru tummy/even get a chance to establish themselves. Suggestions?

Also it seems to be exceptionally bad after citrus and tomatos but not always just them. I just had pesto with ravioli and a kale salad with radishes and now it feels like I have a burning lump half way down my chest. It seems to become noticeable 1-2 hours after eatting, and gets worse over an hour or two then fades away. It's actually keeping me up at night now.

I have a bad hobby of eating lemons/limes raw. Slice them, salt them, lick/eat the flesh. I'm cutting that out because it seems to significantly make my symptoms worse plus I know it's not great for me.

I don't always log my food but I'm going to start being more stringent in trying to figure out what's causing this acid reflux and I also want to clean up my diet.

I've never been one to drink sodas, 90% of the liquids I drink are water (at least 3 glasses a day--still not enough probably), I try to eat healthy but of course I'm sure I don't eat as well as I think I do. My food log is public so feel free to browse.

I'm a self-diagnosed food addict. I plan my days around where I'll be eating, and I often think about my next snack or meal while eating my current one. As in I get a bowl of Minestrone and I'm lamenting not having gotten something else and planning when I can have that.

My Food Plan

Homecook all dinners - Exception being Saturday as a cheat day so that my fiancee doesn't kill me.
Pack Lunches - I drive all around Dallas-Fort Worth doing PC-Repair so lunch can have me just about anywhere and I rarely make good choices. I eat out 5 times a week for lunch and that has to stop. Buying and packing KIND bars for the time being.
Find more healthy resturants - Surrounded by chains here, hard to find some nice mom and pop bistros/cafes where I can get a reletively healthy soup/salad/panini.

Only Real Food and Low-Processed Foods
Reduce intake of Milk (Almond/Coconut) and Cheese (only Real-Cheese when I have it, no processed Cheese)
No-Bread that I didn't make myself. I love bread, but I'm not going to buy it any longer. If I really want it, I have to make it from scratch using whole-wheat flour.
Buy Produce Every 2-3 Days I want to try to visit the store for 1-2 days worth of f ood instead of trying tob uy 1-2 weeks worth of food.
Farmers Market It'll be starting next weekend and I need to set the time aside to buy as much food as I can locally from them.
Grow my own food Big one for me, I have 8 raised beds, and over 60+ veggie plants growing (30 types of peppers, 5 types of tomatos, 4 types of cucumbers, edamame, kales, sugarsnap peas, etc).

Sorry I know this is all rather tangenty. I just wanted somewhere to plop it all down and get some feedback. Thanks for reading.

bbontheb

Hi!

I've been on a low fodmap diet for ibs, stomach issues etc. I go through elimination then add things back. The one thing I noticed is oranges, and anything with tomato (but not raw!). Ketchup, tomato sauce, etc gives bad acid indigestion. I never had it until the last few years and it's gotten really difficult to manage. Also, wheat (not gluten) and cheese. Sigh...

Keep in mind that if it keeps up see your Dr about it. If you have chronic indigestion/stomach acid/heartburn can lead to other issues if not treated. If it hurts and say diet and acid reducers don't help-push for a barium xray and/or a scope. I've had both and know that the longer it goes untreated-the worse damage it can do to your esophagus, etc. Pm if you want to talk privately about it.

I just finished planting some of my beds. Would love to chat gardening if you want! I am planting tomatoes, zukes, cukes, lettuces, spinach, kale, berries, herbs, etc.

Sounds like you have a nice solid plan to go on!

RodaRose

Syntria wrote: »

Hello!


Homecook all dinners - Exception being Saturday as a cheat day so that my fiancee doesn't kill me.
Pack Lunches - I drive all around Dallas-Fort Worth doing PC-Repair so lunch can have me just about anywhere and I rarely make good choices. I eat out 5 times a week for lunch and that has to stop. Buying and packing KIND bars for the time being.
Find more healthy resturants - Surrounded by chains here, hard to find some nice mom and pop bistros/cafes where I can get a reletively healthy soup/salad/panini.

A very good thing about the chains is that they post their calories on-line.
The good thing about the mom and pops is that they might be more accommodating about requests to leave certain things off the plate (no sauce, no this or that).

It seems that you are trying to do a complete make over not just of your food but of your life. You might end up putting too much pressure on yourself.

shaumom

What I would do at this point, especially if you are changing your diet: keep a food journal. Track what you eat and how you feel. And then, if you notice some correlations (the worst pain comes after X meal, for example), change things around. Look at the ingredients in that meal and see what happens when you avoid them. Or when you only eat one ingredient from that meal by itself as a snack.

i know a lot of people who change food around and find out they have intolerances, or problems breaking down certain things, or difficulties with some foods. There can be all sorts of reasons, some of them quite curious.

one of these can be enzymes, actually. The body makes enzymes based on what it expects you to eat, based on what your body has eaten before (and what it has the resources to make). If you make a big change suddenly, sometimes, your enzymes don't catch up right away and you don't digest it right and feel crummy. sometimes other things are going on - like you are eating more of something that you simply don't tolerate well in larger amounts -and that can be a problem.

Just an example from my life. Multiple times, I would start to eat 'really healthy.' I made it all from scratch, eating whole grains or nice healthy pastas (I loved making homemade gnocchi!), and healthy salads, and so on. And every time I would end up feeling slowly sicker and worse and worse until I stopped.

I actually know why now. A couple of the reasons:

1. Turned out I was an undiagnosed celiac. I didn't have many symptoms until I would be eating MORE wheat and other gluten sources (like my healthy whole grains and pastas). So I'd be making myself sicker by eating 'healthier.'

2. I also had a lower tolerance for oxalates - likely due to the celiac disease, in my case (although this can happen if oxalate-consuming bacteria are killed off in your gut, too, from antibiotics). And many of the 'good' veggies I would try to eat, plus the potatoes in my gnocchi, were high in oxalates and making me sick.

Since you are recovering from antibiotics, that might be of interest - might be helpful at least to see how you feel on it. This is a good website on the subject: http://www.lowoxalate.info/research.html


Growing so much of your own food and making it yourself sounds like a pretty healthy way to start it off, at least! I am envious of your garden!! :-)