When I can get it, I’ll have turkey sausage with my pancakes (for health reasons). The taste is a bit less “earthy” than pork products, but that doesn’t mean I turn up my nose at pig sausage — just bring on whatever you got; scrapple, if ya have it.
^ Kayaker, the wall always wins.
Indeed, yet I return hoping for best of three.
I already answered above but forgot about grapefruit statin problems. I’m about a year into that RX and have absentmindedly munched some grapefruit during. It’s lucky the interaction is somewhat weak because I doubt it’s the last time I sneak a piece.
But no more guzzling grapefruit juice, salty dogs, or greyhounds.
Actually I don’t eat the fruit itself that much, but I do like a glass of grapefruit juice.
It has a sort of tart, astringent, palate-cleansing flavour, unlike orange juice which can be a bit too sweet.
Rather like Worf with his prune juice in TNG perhaps: now THAT’s a warrier’s drink!
But of course one can’t explain tastebuds. I do agree that sugar should NOT be added!
Cereal for me. I think I have only mild lactose intolerance because eating moderate amounts of cheese doesn’t have a noticeable effect on me.
But I don’t eat moderate amounts of cereal when I eat cereal. I have at least 2, if not 3, bowls, with milk, especially if it is Bear Naked tri-berry granola. A 50/50 mix of raisin bran with Lucky Charms would also hit that same sweet (heh) spot between too much and too little sugar, but mixing them together would be, like, work. Anyway, after gorging on the milk my innards invariably complain.
I have the same problem with wheat based cereals, stomach cramps and gas. I can tolerate malt sugars in cereals as long as I don’t eat them close to bed time. If I have a bowl in the middle of the night and go back to bed I wake up with a horrendous hangover if I am lucky or worse I wake up but cannot move. It might take me 5 minutes just to wiggle a toe then I am ok. I love broccoli abd have eaten it all my life but just decided no more as the gas and stomach cramps have just become intolerable.
Joining the chorus on spicy foods. I never was terribly fond of really hot stuff, but now anything hotter than ‘mild’ sauce gives me severe heartburn. I love Mexican food, but I have to be really careful what I order in authentic restaurants, which are numerous around here.
Also, I have to limit my intake of coffee to two cups each morning. Any more and I will probably experience indigestion for a couple of hours. (Not to mention that I will be making frequent trips to the restroom.)
I’ve found quality blue cheese and raw pineapple now both rip the hell out of the roof of my mouth if I eat more than a little. It’s the histamines in the one, bromelain in the other. I love both and find it annoying I can’t indulge without suffering a bit for it.
Greasy food in general is more of a trial than it used to be, though the impact varies.
Yup. Atorvastatin for me - clearly contraindicated.
Liver damage. Don’t do it - you may not notice symptoms until farther down the road and you do not want to fuck with your liver.
I can’t eat ice cream anymore either. Even one bite tears up my stomach. I can handle other dairy products as long as I don’t eat too much. (Ask me about the time I ate an entire basket of fried cheese…) But ice cream does such bad things to my digestive system that it’s just not worth it.
The ironic thing is my dad worked for an ice cream factory when I was a kid and I ate more ice cream than any kid should. Now I pay for it.
Me too. Fortunately I can have my regular morning dose of 12 oz. of strong cold brew with half and half over ice once a day. Second servings never taste as good and keep me up at night, no matter what time I drink it.
Regarding statins and grapefruit: Rosuvastatin (Crestor) and pravastatin (Pravacol) are safe to take with grapefruit. Same for fluvastatin (Lescol) and pitavastatin (Livalo).
Happily I’m on rosuvastatin so can happily still eat grapefriut.
What about Simvastatin? I’ve been taking it for 10 years after I got a cardiac stent, but nobody told me about any issues with grapefruit. Now I very rarely eat grapefruit, but I might have an occasional grapefruit juice.
… Consuming grapefruit while taking atorvastatin, simvastatin, or lovastatin can cause higher levels of these statins in your body. Other statins such as rosuvastatin, pravastatin, or pitavastatin do not interact with grapefruit.Aug 25, 2022…
From GoodRx.com
Ah, thanks, I will be careful. I also have to tell my mother, who also takes Simvastatin but doesn’t normally eat grapefruit.
I think I’ve had a G&T before but it was ages ago. So, I don’t have a memory of the taste. I know I didn’t hate it, but I prefer a gimlet.
Ha, you’re like a character on Ghosts.
Thanks for this (I’m on rosuvastatin), but my bp med also contraindicates grapefruit, so I’m still SOL.
I have a Mexican-American friend who would feel your pain - he has the cilantro-intolerance gene that renders any dish with even the smallest amount inediblely soapy. As you can imagine, this makes family dinners difficult for him. Imagine telling your Latina mom, No, Mamá, no puedo comer tu comida.
Oddly, I can drink milk, but drink a lactose free version. They actually remove the lactose so the milk is less sweet. (if you’re lactose intolerant you should be able to eat hard cheeses and yogurt.)
Grapefruit soda. I was very sad that it’s contraindicated with the chemo I was given. i know my last chemo treatment was a year ago, but I still haven’t had any and I keep forgetting to ask my oncologist. I miss F.resca
Chicken wings and onion rings. Ever since they took my gallbladder, more than one of either is a guaranteed ticket to a night of abdominal pain.
actually they used to use quinine sulfate to alleviate leg cramps … it had some interesting side effects well for me anyways it made me loopy as all hell to the point if I took it I just laid on the bed and watched the ceiling spin