Stomach pains after bread, pasta

I'm no medical expert, but I once had a student with celiacs and he could not eat wheat products. You might want to research it.

If I had stomach pains after eating certain foods, I wouldn't eat them -- regardless of what a medical test told me. It could also be that you have a wheat allergy or intolerance that isn't celiac.

After a neagtive antibody result for celiacs I've been told there is a tiny tiny slim chance I could still have it, but I'm thinking very unlikely. Worst part is that I am lactose intolerant so cutting out wheat/gluten as well as lactose really limits my food choices. I just have to listen to my body.

I'd actually been going very well with my diet (over 8 weeks and going strong) when due to lack of money I started to go through food still in the pantry/freezer instead of buying more fresh stuff. Included pasta and bread, so for the first time in 2 months I was having pasta (avoided it completely due to the high caloric value and inability to satisfy my hunger) and bread.

I must say it is great for weightloss - fruit, veggies and fresh meat!

Nora Gedgaudas has quite a bit to say about gluten, especially the problems with diagnosing celiac:

Although there are numerous methods for assessing gluten sensitivity and/or celiac disease, most are unfortunately somewhat unreliable in their accuracy (including the so-called “gold standard” approach of intestinal biopsy), which may be partly why so few are properly diagnosed even when testing is sought out. With respect to blood and salivary testing, out of 12 different sub-fractions of gliadin, for instance, typically only one—alpha-gliadin—is ever tested for. If you happen to have a sensitivity for any of the eleven other forms of gliadin it might not ever show. False negatives are a notorious part of this type of testing, unfortunately.

Her write up on the subject is pretty extensive, so you can read more here: http://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/?p=805

I don't have a full understanding behind the science of testing or know how accurate she is, but I just figured I would point you there since, at least according to her, it might actually still be fairly likely that you got a false negative.

If I had stomach pains after eating certain foods, I wouldn't eat them -- regardless of what a medical test told me. It could also be that you have a wheat allergy or intolerance that isn't celiac.

I completely agree with you. As I've never cut out wheat products like this before, I thought that there might be a possibility that everyone reacts to cutting out wheat products and then reintroducing them. Apparently the Dr I am seeing will be able to confirm/deny celiacs and even find out if i wheat intolerance through tests.

Yeah. If you read around on "paleo/primal" websites in particular, you will find that a lot of people have very similar experiences. They never realized how much they were being effected by certain foods (most frequently gluten-containing grains and dairy) until they took them out of their diets and tried reintroducing them. It doesn't mean that you've developed intolerance just by eliminating them -- it probably means that they've always bothered you (maybe not as severely) and you are just now putting it together.

I'm not sure about just after eating, but when my anxiety is high I get a horrible, crippling pain in my solar plexus- it spread to my chest, my neck, my arms, my face.. my entire upper body. sometimes it's so bad that I just curl in a ball and cry. I've found the muscle relaxers help and if i don't have any meds (like right now- no insurance) a couple shots of vodka make the pain go away or lessen. So I'm guessing it's because the muscles are getting so tight that it's becoming painful- for me anyway. stress has also been known to cause indigestion though.

the source : http://www.stomachpainafter-eating.com/

For many years i have wondered if there is a correlation between becoming intolerant to foods and how often they are or are not eaten. A long time ago I became "allergic" to dairy after I stopped drinking milk to cut down on flem/mucus production. When I first introduced back into my diet I would have pretty bad and immediate reactions such as an itchy rash on my face. As I slowly reintroduced it, it went away.

The other reason for my post is that a couple years ago my daughter became lactose intolerant. It happened virtually overnight and we figured it out by looking at what she had been eating and eliminating dairy. She pretty much now has that under control and knows what she can and cannot eat. (Not all dairy has the same effect.)

Recently- within the last couple of weeks she has been experiencing stomach pain and nausea after eating some carbs such as bread and pasta. Actually, frequently she can feel it before she is even done, so it is almost immediate. It seemed obvious it was wheat related. However she then had the same stomach pain after eating apples and rice. She has discovered though if she limits herself to only about a half of an apple she is ok. I found an article on livestrong.com that talked about an intolerance to fructose and the ratio of fructose and glucose in foods. It also stated that people who are lactose intolerant are more likely to be fructose intolerant as well. I'm still trying to do research on this but it is slow going.