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Hi everyone,
i am new to this list...so bare with me.
At about 4:15 PM today, I suddenly had a gut-wrenching pain in my right
side in front, below the ribcage but above the waist. I also had pain
in my back directly behind it. It was so severe it nearly took my
breath away. It hurt to breathe. I felt better when I was standing
up. Sitting down felt horrible! I wasn't able to get home until
6:30 and I immediately went to the bed to lie down. I found a
position where the pain seemed to subside and just stayed there for 3o
minutes. I also drank some sprite. Then I started to have really bad
burping and acid reflux sensation, like i was going to throw up. Then
my intestines started gurgling, like I have had in a gluten reaction.
Now, at 7:15, the pain has almost completely gone away. I don't have a
fever.
My husband freaked out and thought it was an appendix attack, but I
told him I thought it was from the food I ate for lunch at 1:30 PM.
(I tried Ortega taco shells for the first time.)
I have never had a reaction like this to gluten. Usually my reactions
are within an hour of ingestion and I end up with severe diarrhea. In
this instance, I haven't even had a bowel movement since this morning.
I have been GF since Sept 1, with only a couple instances of accidental
gluten ingestion. however, the past two weeks has been filled with
weird stomach aches and flatulence and nausea. I saw the doc yesterday
and she suspected parasites or systemic yeast infection. They are
runing more tests for those things.
Has this sudden pain ever happened to any of you? I really felt like
I was going to pass out! But I am so afraid of hospitals that I don't
really want to go there tonight; I am afraid that if I go, I won't
ever come out ! (too many drug allergies and latex allergy and food
allergies with compromised immune system.)
Thanks so much!
Kathleen
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