Food sensitivity is no joke! Since Saturday night I’ve been recovering from accidentally eating a spicy bite of food (after I explicitly told the waiter that I had an allergy and to not put that spice on my dish).
Every now and then it happens, I make the mistake of eating something at a pot luck without asking for ingredients, a waiter doesn’t take me seriously and/or the restaurant simply removes the offending food from already cooked meal (which BTW can often be justas bad of a reaction if not worse because you don’t see the spice/offender).
I approach the reality that I can no longer trust new restaurants, or worse- potlucks with no recipes attached to the dish...
For me, it’s chili peppers/nightshade sensitivities. I can tell if it’s a problem within one tiny nibble: one bite, and my digestive system swells like a puffer fish and burns like fire. One bite, and it’s pain for a week or more (even with my rescue antihistamines and supplemental enzymes)
I live in Tucson, lauded for having some of the best Mexican restaurants around and I can no longer eat Mexican food at all.
While I lost an entire week in bed, in pain...(better now with my antihistamines and almost no food for the past few days)I’m reminded of how horrible it can be (thankfully it doesn’t put me in the hospital with anaphylaxis)and how careful I have to be...no matter how delicious it smells. It’s a hard lesson to learn, because it’s something I’ve learned to avoid - so the episodes are infrequent but very painful. I’m writing this down now to further remind myself that politely eating anything that is offered is just not worth the risk
I’m no longer willing to risk losing any more time from a single bite.
