egg intolerance

(cycle 29, day 11)

i don't recall if i mentioned about having an intolerance to eggs when i was pregnant last year and it continuing even after losing the pregnancy... yeah. it started when i was pregnant. my stomach would cramp up within a matter of hours after eating eggs (in skillets, sandwiches, but not baked goods) and i would feel sick to my stomach and spend a couple hours curled up trying to sleep it off. i happily gave them up while pregnant.

after having the MC, i thought maybe i'd be able to eat them again since i was able to eat cereal again (it tasted like cardboard, lol). that didn't happen. i was in the same stomach pain after eating them as i had when i was pregnant. every so often i would try them again hoping it would go away. it didn't so after about 4 or 5 months i just gave them up completely. it sometimes sucked for breakfast on weekends, or breakfast for supper nights, but i managed. its not like they were my favorite food and felt deprived not being able to eat them. it was more of an inconvenience because if i made eggs for DH, i'd have to make myself something else. he didn't get eggs as often as i'm sure he would've liked because of it...

after some boxing day shopping we went to smitty's to get a late breakfast. i was bummed out at the thought of being limited to waffles, french toast and pancakes. all of which are a subjective food and you either like the way a place makes them, or you don't because they're never as good as they are somewhere else. i am one of those snobs  : P  i normally don't like fluffy pancakes, but i like the ones made from scratch and not from a box, so that wiped out pancakes. DH makes the best french toast, but i've also had great french toast from other places, i just forgot about that fact until now, lol.  so that left me with waffles. the last time we were there for breakfast, the waffle wasn't all that great. it was too crispy for my liking (i loved my step-moms waffles, mmmm... now i want a waffle maker, lol) so i didn't want it again. DH suggested getting eggs and i first told him i can't because of my intolerance, but all the egg dishes sounded so damn good at that moment! i decided to go for it since it had been quite a while since my last attempt at eating eggs. i tried to eat around the eggs and stick mostly to the hashbrown potatoes in the skillet, but still eat at least some eggs to see if my intolerance had finally worn off.

SUCCESS!!!

...til today. dammit. i made eggs for supper (ate them at 9pm, i was lazy, lol) since DH went out for wings and at first i thought i was fine. when i went to bed, i felt a little crampy, but i wasn't sure if it was in my head or not because it wasn't overly painful or uncomfortable, i barely even noticed it. i figured since my battle with eggs was over, i'd have the same thing for lunch today after oatmeal the last 2 days. then came 3pm and the cramps started. ugh. so i guess i have to continue avoiding eggs  :-/  ah well. i was hoping i'd be able to get away with them for the time being and if it started again when i got pregnant, i would happily give them up. i just wasn't quite ready to give them again so soon. its only been 2 weeks! gah!

i hope this ends at some point. i totally forgot to ask my doc about it when i saw her in november, so hopefully i remember for the next time i see her... hopefully its not 10 years from now, done having kids and still dealing with an egg intolerance. that would suck.