Post Up What You Had For Dinner

[BamaPainGurl]

dont recall what I had for dinner because benzos and because I was busy feeding my cousins fucking baby. he had spaghetti bolognese that I made. he said it was good. I say 'fucking baby' only because his parents were making no effort to do so. I hold no ill-will towards said baby.

nevermind, I remember. I had cold spaghetti bolognese but with a metric shit ton of real parmigiano cheese

It wasn't until a year or so ago that I was able to start eating lukewarm meals again. Totally relate to making two plates and watching one grow icy whilst trying to speed feed the tot without choking them because you're famished too! And when the tot just wants to giggle and grin between bites! Those sessions seemed to last forever for a cup of food and as soon as I got to mine, gone in sixty seconds cold or not!

[Opi-ette]

Every Thanksgiving I make a batch of sweet and spicy meatballs. The plan was to make it last night so I didn't have to rush around today before I pick Mom up and go to my sisters house who is hosting this year.

Bad move. I was in bed thinking about them because I hadn't eaten at all yesterday. Well I finally popped out  of bed and heated some up.  I would eat more this morning but that would be stretching it 

[puppy]

Hey Bama...as far as the venison goes...have you tried venison bbq? Crock pot and sauce of your choice and just let it go til you can shred it...I've done that many times and never had an issue with the gamey taste...or add to chili...

[Opus]

For days now, enough days that I could probably start counting in weeks, breakfast lunch dinner wtfever, all I eat is what they call "bone broth" made from chicken and beef and carrots and celery and ginger (LOTS of fucking ginger).

I cook the fuck out of the stuff until the bones disintegrate, cos I want the marrow. If I use beef bones, I try hard to make sure there's exposed marrow (the beef bones don't break down quite like the chicken does).

I'm also "allowed" to eat yogurt. Oh and I also "eat" a few small handfuls of chopped garlic everyday. Yes, I reek like it. No, I don't care what other ppl think.

For the first time in my life, I'm on a diet. Not stoked on that, but I am stoked that it's WORKING.

I has an infection in my gut, have had it for awhile but didn't recognize/figger out the symptoms until recently. But I finally did figger it out and I'm quite sure I can say this shit is WORKING.

Shit has been making me fucking miserable, every meal no matter what came with MASSIVE bloating and discomfort. It was a really fucked existence. But this is working, so that's good, there is hope, cos I'm damned sure my GP wouldn't have a clue (he never does) about how to handle this.

So this turkey day, I'm eating bone broth, yogurt and garlic -- not necessarily in that order. Oh, and a couple bananas too, but I always eat a couple bananas in the am.

No smashed taters for me this year, or at least not until xmas.

[corlene]

Hey don't feel too bad Opus,

I'm gonna have a couple sips of turkey, mash and gravy smoothie, and probably puke that up too.

I'm on a glucerna straight into my intestine kinda kick lately.

Instead of all the raw garlic goto a Caribbean restaurant, the Jamaican ginger beer(it's soda) is made with garlic and ginger, stuff is awesome.

[Opus]

We love that gnarly ginger beer in this household. Good shit and I like it strong..

Unfortunately sugar (espcially HF/CS) isn't on my list.

Ya last xmas I went 900 miles north and ate mostly pistachios and dried cherries (some mix my mom came up with, but I couldn't stop eating the shit). I had a few bites of turkey and a few bites of potato & gravy, but that was it. Too sick to eat much else (pancreatitis).

I know what it's like to be way too sick for the holidays, so I hear the pain bro. This year I'm in better shape gut wise, but I gotta deal with this fucking infection.

Awesomeness.

I just got a really great bag of weed tho. It could be worse..

[Dhedmo]

This Thanksgiving I'm on my own as Grace is headed to her parents' home out of state. So I'm going to a friend's.

It's amazing how high this vegetarian can pile his plate at a non-veg Thanksgiving!

With an extra large slice of NFL (go Bear) and hopefully a safe ride home.

@opus Chops, that's a tough row ta hoe. That GI stuff can rally be overwhelming. Glad you got da weed.

@corlene I hope you're able to keep down your smooth turkey & ginger beer. And that the relations don't mope around. We're thankful you're here! Take er easy

[Daughter of Dionysus (OP)]

@Opus
Man, I'm sorry
I had no idea you were going
Thru all that shut
I am soooo glad your diet
Is working
Wishing you a speedy recovery

@Corlene
I hope you managed to have
A halfway decent
Thanksgiving
:O

We aren't having
Thanksgiving until Saturday
So tonight we are having
Salmon baked with Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
Four cheese penne with prosciutto
And avocado on the side

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL

Love from
HeAd

[corlene]

I didn't go hungry! Okay, well maybe I did, but I enjoyed having the family over.

Now that their all shopping and I've cleaned everything up, I'll be in my corner drooling.

[corlene]

And as I'm slowly building up the tempo with my pump(morphine), along with added oxymorph for the win I get to decorate a tree, it's Christmas time folks!

I gotta find my menorah!!!

[Opi-ette]

For days now, enough days that I could probably start counting in weeks, breakfast lunch dinner wtfever, all I eat is what they call "bone broth" made from chicken and beef and carrots and celery and ginger (LOTS of fucking ginger).

I cook the fuck out of the stuff until the bones disintegrate, cos I want the marrow. If I use beef bones, I try hard to make sure there's exposed marrow (the beef bones don't break down quite like the chicken does).

I'm also "allowed" to eat yogurt. Oh and I also "eat" a few small handfuls of chopped garlic everyday. Yes, I reek like it. No, I don't care what other ppl think.

For the first time in my life, I'm on a diet. Not stoked on that, but I am stoked that it's WORKING.

I has an infection in my gut, have had it for awhile but didn't recognize/figger out the symptoms until recently. But I finally did figger it out and I'm quite sure I can say this shit is WORKING.

Shit has been making me fucking miserable, every meal no matter what came with MASSIVE bloating and discomfort. It was a really fucked existence. But this is working, so that's good, there is hope, cos I'm damned sure my GP wouldn't have a clue (he never does) about how to handle this.

So this turkey day, I'm eating bone broth, yogurt and garlic -- not necessarily in that order. Oh, and a couple bananas too, but I always eat a couple bananas in the am.

No smashed taters for me this year, or at least not until xmas.

Sorry to hear about your stomach infection Chops. Mind if I ask (because I've never heard of stomach infections other than maybe from surgery) what were your symptoms other than the bloating and discomfort, or were those the main symptoms? Do you know how you got it?

Glad to hear that you are managing to clear it up au naturale through diet. I've heard of bone broth before but never tried it. Other than the bananas, are you eating any solid foods?

PS: Sounds like you need to find a new GI specialist.

[neighbor]

shit that sounds familiar. only personally its just nausea instead of bloating. but I keep getting tested for goddamn H. Pylori which I dont fucking have. I've absolutely noticed an increased desire for garlic. I will eat it raw if given the chance. I just try not to talk face to face with people, or I keep a good distance at the very least.

[Daughter of Dionysus (OP)]

I made chicken lo mein
That came as a skillet meal
From Schawns

It was soooo good
I was surprised by how good it was
St. T inspired me to make it

[6-mam]

I has an infection in my gut, have had it for awhile but didn't recognize/figger out the symptoms until recently. But I finally did figger it out and I'm quite sure I can say this shit is WORKING.

Shit has been making me fucking miserable, every meal no matter what came with MASSIVE bloating and discomfort. It was a really fucked existence. But this is working, so that's good, there is hope, cos I'm damned sure my GP wouldn't have a clue (he never does) about how to handle this.

I'm curious about this too... what the hell happened?

[Thoms]

Dinner= 2 cookies, 7mg kpin.

[Opus]

shit that sounds familiar. only personally its just nausea instead of bloating. but I keep getting tested for goddamn H. Pylori which I dont fucking have. I've absolutely noticed an increased desire for garlic. I will eat it raw if given the chance. I just try not to talk face to face with people, or I keep a good distance at the very least.

I'm too lazy to multi-quote atm so I'll just quote this guy,

The syndrome is outlined pretty well here (SIBO): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_intestinal_bacterial_overgrowth

I've had some symptoms building for awhile, but a few months ago I got back on a strong stomach med (prilosec and another one that escapes me atm; I've also been taking ranitidine regularly for a couple years) and the shit just took off, went from noticeable to MISERABLE in a few weeks. The symptoms are the kind of thing I think you have to experience to fully realize. When I say bloating I don't mean a little discomfort, I mean a shit-ton of discomfort. Basically when left unchecked, eating turns my gut into an angry, bubbling, groaning, grinding, really REALLY uncomfortable hydrogen factory. But as bad as it sounds eating handfuls of raw garlic, the garlic STOPS the crazy churning within like 15 minutes, everytime. No doubt about it. If you get really uncomfortable after eating, but a handful of garlic stops it within minutes, you probably have something similar going on. I also have a mild case of rosacea on my neck, have had it for a couple years now (so this shit has been brewing, literally, for awhile now). Rosacea is commonly attributed to screwy gut bacterial problems.

I feel a bit vindicated on the raw garlic thing, I tried it initially as a guess and with a lot of previous luck using garlic to fight other types of infections, I know people think I'm crazy but in fact there were a couple times early on where I nearly killed it all off with garlic alone (it seems now a bit more resistant to the garlic, but it still works singularly better than anything else I've tried which include some very strong herbs).. Anyway about everything I've read on this condition lists raw, chopped garlic as a first line treatment for this, so my guess was right on. The key ingredient in garlic that makes it such a great anti-biotic is called 'allicin' -- look it up if you want. You can't get allicin from a pill bottle, it's produced when the garlic is chopped and it doesn't last long exposed to air.

I've done those H. Pylori tests. All it is is a test for Hydrogen (after consuming some glucose or something like that). Years ago I tested + for it and then treated it with some gnarly anti-biotics, and they said it went away. My stomach never got any better tho. I had another negative test just a couple months ago, but I'm sure that I'm currently producing lots of hydrogen so I think the lab fucked up the test or something. I don't think it's a terribly reliable method as lots more than H. Pylori produce hydrogen.

In my case I think it's been caused by a combination of slow bowel motility due to methadone, and the stomach meds I take creating a PH environment that's too friendly for these bacteria. So I've been tapering off the MD anyway, and I stopped the stomach meds now just back to eating tums all the time.

It's a real fucking drag, life has been very bumpy last couple years and this kind of shit is just the last fucking thing I need. I seem to have inherited a lot of my grandmother's stomach problems, and I suspect she may have had something similar going on with her. She seemed to have a lot of similar symptoms.

I've made some progress since learning about the GAPS diet (also the SCD diet), but holy fuck yesterday I drank like 4 beers and felt like I was set back 2 weeks, just miserable last night. This shit is no joke, it really isn't. For a really long time I've wondered about the implications of so much fucking around with my stomach PH, guess I was right to be concerned.

IDK if I missed any questions, I'm in pretty rough shape this morning. Feel free to ask tho..

Also gotta add: I HAVE run this shit by a "real" doc who didn't have a clue, and it was in the context of "since I started the stomach meds..". Some people just want to throw industrial grade antibiotics at everything without regard for consequence, but TBH I'm not sure shit like this ISN'T a consequence of too many antibiotics and/or use of other meds with poorly understood side effects. Thanks to the ACA I have health-care coverage (where I had nothing for over a decade due to my stomach probs being lifelong and "pre-existing"), but it's a very slow process and my primary seems to have some sort of aversion to dialog with his patients.

So ya, good times. I'm thinking about applying for a job as a portable green energy factory, like maybe I could power a city bus or something? Save 'em a fuckton on diesel fuel I bet..