I've been sick a lot lately and not sure what is going on. I'm super late for my period, but that's not uncommon for me as I'm not entirely regular. Took a couple tests and all were negative so not sure it's a pregnancy issue. It just seems like I'm feeling sick all the time lately and even more so when I eat. I was wondering if it is possibly a gluten issue so I tried eating gluten free for a week and still felt sick. I've been avoiding dairy to see if that's the issue, but still constantly feeling sick and just not sure what is going on. Usually I'm ok enough to still do what I have to during the day such as work, but my stomach is constantly aching and I keep getting these random urges to throw up even though I haven't actually thrown up.
Gallbladder maybe? Is it worse after you eat? I had some weird stomach issues for a while and they got worse after I ate... it went away on it's own after a while, but people suggested gallbladder issues. It lasted a loooong time, I felt sick and just weird for weeks, and every time I ate I felt worse, but never actually threw up. I think it was almost a month. No fun. x_x
If it is a gluten issue, as in you've actually had physical damage done to your stomach and intestine lining (sorry, I know that's gross, don't google it either), it can take time to heal itself. It doesn't even have to be outright celiac disease for damage to be occurring apparently. You're young enough that it can still repair itself if that's what is going on, though not always completely, but the time it takes to repair varies...
Before I stopped eating gluten, it got to the point where almost ANYTHING would make me sick. Once I stopped eating gluten, now I can eat stuff that before was in the "potential trigger" column (which again was ALMOST ANYTHING) and be fine. I mean there was a time when just eating chicken made me sick. =/ Presumably it's because my stomach and intestines were so chewed up from the gluten that ANY food in general irritated it so made me sick. It was probably somewhere within the first month that it just dawned on me that I hadn't been sick that week, and had been getting sick less and less in recent weeks too. But it did take a while before I really felt better.
Doctor Google says dairy sometimes hides in stuff, and gluten for sure does. I wonder if you're not accidentally consuming either and it's making you sick?
My vent: I have to fill out these IRA forms for work. I'm going to suck it up and do it so I can start having an actual retirement fund, and hope that doesn't result in me not being able to pay my mortgage. But I'm really not old enough to fill these forms out. I need an adult.
