Really poor eating choices and then 5 days of gastro distress?

Five days ago I had a bad day and made some poor choices.  As in, a big ol' piece of coffee cake.  I know.  This has almost never happened to me but I just had a bad day and made a really crummy choice.  The rest of the day was pretty clean, just worked on getting back on plan and sticking with protein.  Shortly after eating the cake I had my typical sugar reaction, I don't know if it is technically dumping but I felt lousy, wanted to lay down, my tummy was crampy and miserable.  But here is where it gets weird.  Since then I have had all measure of gastro distress, diarrhea, explosive dairrhea, periods of constipation, terrible cramping.  the diarrhea tends to come immediately after eating.  As my 4 year old would say, "What the what?"  It feels a little like I have felt after antibiotics in the past, you know when all the good bacteria gets wiped out of your system and your stomach is just a mess.  Any ideas about what is going on?  My diet has been really clean since then, right back on track.  I am finding that anything but protein shakes really upsets my stomach so I am sticking to those for now. 

I don't see how it could be related but I have had treatment for an ulcer that just wrapped up last week.  It was asymptomatic (they found it during an internal hernia repair). 

I will tell you this, NO MORE COFFEE CAKE!!  Lesson learned.  I keep telling my body, "I got it, I got it, you can go back to normal now, no more coffee cake, I got it!"  But it isn't listening :)

I don't see how it could be possible related to "the coffee cake incident."  That was 5 days ago - you have certainly digested it by now!  My only guess is that it coincidentally occurred at the same time you got a stomach bug?  If it continues - I would go to your doctor.

Also, don't beat yourself up over one piece of cake.  Not the best choice, but one piece of cake is not that big of a deal.  If you did that everyday - I would say you are headed in a bad direction, but you are entitled to the occasional piece of cake.  However, if you dump (which it sounds like you did) I wouldn't eat the whole piece next time.

Ohh this sounds like the stomach bug that my whole family got 2 weekends ago. It was bad for the husband and son, but really bad for me. It took me about 3 days after it was done before I could handle food. I did shakes, crackers, broth, plain toast, and 1/2 a banana.

Maybe you are right, it is funny how I attribute everything to the surgery now!  and thank for being gentle about the "coffee cake incident".  Some people seem to like/need a really hard line approach but gentleness works so much better for me!

Coffee cake?  Crummy choice?  Get it?  Haha.

Anyways, cut yourself a break.

hahaha!

Beat me to it!!

There are some curt replies on this site - but there are some really DUMB questions/statements also.  I will never say anything mean to anyone.  If I think someone says something totally crazy . . . like "I'm heating horribly all the time and I'm gaining weight - what should I do??"  I chose not to reply instead of being mean.  I see posts kinda like this all the time!  Yours was fine!!

Before surgery if I had a bad tummy upset, I sometimes had to go on a BRAT diet for a day or two and let my GI tract calm down completely and then slowly add foods back to it.

You might want to try that if it persists.

Hugs--that is not a fun experience and 5 days of it sounds horrid!