What Makes Your Stomach Turn?

This is a blog about stomach problems. My goal is to form a community where we can discuss our problems and realize that there are others that share our stomach problems. I want people who are willing to discuss these problems in a fun environment and are not afraid to discuss their stomach issues which will allow others to feel better about themselves. This post is a list of the non-food related things that upset my stomach and make my insides turn. What are yours? Please leave a comment and let me know so we can further discuss your issues and understand why outside forces our destroying our stomachs.

This is a list of things that kill my stomach even though I can't help it. What are yours?

1. Fights with family/friends
2. My sports teams (Miami Hurricanes or Michigan Wolverines losing)
3. Work stress
4. Upsetting stories on the news
5. Traffic

Food... Our Only Natural Enemy

We are the silent majority in the country. We are those that silently writhe in pain while the others enjoy their $38 steak, or $8 slice of cheesecake. We are those guys and girls at the party who won't eat the cake, won't drink the liquor and sure as hell won't eat the spicy shrimp appetizer that all our friends seem to be enjoying. We are the silent ones who rush to the bathroom before we sit down at our desk in the morning. We are those who get up in the middle of class and pretend like we are answering a phone call, when, in fact, we are going to our favorite place besides bed... the bathroom. Some of us are worse than others. Some of us have had the humiliation of paying 5o cents at a rest stop to avoid an emergency of epic proportions. Some of us have had to sit quietly during an opera, sports game or lecture while deep in our bowels a rumble greater than Mt. St. Helen's was shaking us to the core.

Food Intolerant is a release from the pain, anger, resentment, joy, humiliation and any other feeling that we may have about our relationship with food. It is a site where a community of those people with weak stomachs, lactose intolerance, IBS, acid reflux or any other stomach ailment can come to discuss the issues of the day or let out a fiery rant about their problems. It is also a site of joy. A celebration that we are who we are. This site will encourage you to take pride in the fact that you have a terrible stomach. It will encourage to let your co-worker, girlfriend, or boss know that you just took a massive crap in the bathroom from the left-over taco salad you just ate. It is a site where problems will be answered, advice will be given, and stories will be shared about stomach episodes that we have all experienced. Most of all, it is a site to remind us that we can live life fully with a stomach problem, and that the only way to defeat the problem is to accept the problem and laugh... laugh at yourself.