The fruity culprit??
Around 3 months ago I began to experience very bad, spasming pains in my stomach. I knew that the pains weren’t related to eating gluten because they were occuring on random days when I had eaten nothing but my usual breakfast and lunch which I knew did not contain any gluten. For months after being diagnosed I had been eating these same foods and suddenly they were causing me severe pains…Was it really the food or was it something more sinister? It was impossible for me to tell!
At first the pains appeared on a weekly basis which was horrible but it was when they started to come much more frequently (at one point I was in pain 4 of 5 days) that it became unbearable and I decided to go to my doctor. Unfortunately, but not too surprisingly, he said that it was difficult to pinpoint what was causing these pains and gave me a prescription for Mebeverine. He said to try these pills whenever the pains come and if they don’t work then to come back so that we can look into the problem further. Mebeverine is generally used for sufferers of ‘IBS or similar stomach problems’ but I thought I may as well give it a try. The pains, when they sneak up on me, are so painful that I can barely function properly and I didn’t know how much more of them I could take! It was affecting my work, my running and my sleep!
The next time the pains came I took the pills. They didn’t work immediately but the pain eased within an hour or so and was gone a couple of hours later. I would continue to take the pills for a couple of days to ensure the pains were gone. This worked as far as getting rid of that particular wave of spasms but the pains would always come back, resulting in the need for more pills.
The last time I had these pains was 2 weeks ago. I had just eaten my breakfast of gluten free cornflakes with soy milk and a banana a hour earlier and this made something click in my brain. I thought back to the last few times I had the pains and to what I’d eaten….I couldn’t rememeber every time but I could definitely remember eating bananas on at least 2 or 3 other occasions before the pains came…could bananas really be the culprit?
I still can’t be sure if I’m right because it’s only been 2 weeks but I haven’t eaten a banana since and this is the longest I’ve gone in months without pain. I googled stomach pains after eating bananas and came across an interesting article on banana allergy
I like bananas and it sucks if I can never eat one again without suffering but at least knowing for sure would stop me worrying that the pains are due to something else…it’s been 2 weeks and counting since the spams so I’ll keep you updated on living banana and gluten free!
(UPDATE: June 2012) I have now been banana free for over two years and those horrific stomach pains never returned. I miss bananas but I certainly don’t miss the nasty pains I suffered from eating them!
Are there any other celiacs who have experienced something similar? It seems ridiculous that bananas were what were causing me all those horrific stomach pains! Do they do the same to you? Share your experiences of evil banana pains or other foods that do something similar to you…
Kitty
Jun 27th, 2013How thankful to discover your WEB page.
I have IBS but never paid attention to “banana and nasty tummy ache”; until yesterday. A mid afternoon snack of a banana gave me pain within perhaps 30 minutes. I could hardly stay at work, it was so painful. The pain lasted until, I went to bed almost 7 hours after eating the banana.
I will really miss them, but I plan to avoid them now.
Rebecca
Jun 27th, 2013I don’t know where I heard this information but someone told me somewhere that bananas have hidden gluten in them naturally since I went gluten free I have not had o ne and have not had problems. I do not understand why they would have gluten but I was new at the gluten free thing and it was someone who was a long time gluten free person so I listened to them… don’t know if it is true or not but it might be worth it to look into… maybe it is the answer
Sandra
Jun 27th, 2013My hubby is not Celiac but bananas give him excruciating pain as well. He started reacting badly to shellfish about 5 years ago. From there, it blossomed into being unable to eat bananas and avocados. Still trying to get him to see a Doctor for a proper diagnosis….
Rebecca
Jun 27th, 2013this might help you all out I just read it myself and now I understand a lot better
http://www.glutenhatesme.com/2012/11/are-bananas-gluten-freean-investigation.html
Marg
Jun 28th, 2013I get severe abdominal pain fairly often, even causes weakness and fainting. Thank God that I ha e always been home and not one. The first time my husband called an ambulance and I was taken to the ER. diagnosis was ? , sorry just forgot the name of the syndrome. The ER Dr. said it shuts the body down when the pain gets unbearable. My doctor prescribed a little pill to put under my tongue for it to dissolve and it works fairly quick. The only problem is that it causes constipation. Never got a different diagnosis. Forgot to say I have Celiac. Never have been able to pinpoint a retain food that triggers the pain. Still a mystery.
Steph
Jun 28th, 2013I just read your article about the stomachs problems after eating bananas. I had bad stomachs pain after eating oranges. And the weird thing is, I are them for years before that and never had a problem. So I didn’t eat them for quite a while and then tried one and I was fine.
Tee
Jul 11th, 2013Bananas have given me terrible stomach pain my whole life. Haven’t touched them since last attempt in 5th grade. Then in my thirties the same started happening with avocados. My mother became allergic to bananas when she was pregnant with me. She can now eat them again, but is now allergic to avocados. Glad you discovered what caused the pain. That’s some horrible pain! I can’t even look at a banana or avocado without triggering bad memories and nausea. (I have a few times been able to eat banana bread and be ok — I wonder if the cooking changed the chemistry? But have decided not worth the risk.)
Ria
Jul 12th, 2013I get these exact same stomach pains all day shortly after eating bananas as well as avocados… Which is so sad because I love avocados and was able to eat them till 2 years ago. =(
Ria
Jul 12th, 2013Like u Tee, I can eat banana bread no problem but no raw bananas.
Svend
Aug 3rd, 2013Hi,
My wife has a bad reaction to Bananas similar to that described by most of you here. She is not allergic to much else except aspirin. Gluten is fine with her.
Symptoms are nausea and sometimes strong pain in the upper stomach usually occurring within 30min of consumption.
She only noticed this after our second child when she was about 35. Before then it had been fine.
She has also worked out that cooked bananas don’t bother her. Frozen bananas are no good. So perhaps heat is breaking down the chemical that causes the pain. She enjoys banana cake and cooks it often.
So if there is a clever chemist out there who can concoct an indigestion remedy that has the same affect as cooking the banana then it could work for her. Maybe you could make a few bucks.
Maria
Aug 3rd, 2013I as well can not eat:
bananas
avocados
raspberries
blackberries
blueberries
raw broccoli
raw cauliflower
raw zucchini
Or Oatmeal/whole rolled oats
I’m allergic to:
peanuts
tree nuts
sunflower seeds
barley
shrimp
I don’t know why I cant eat these foods, I figure it’s an intolerance. But today I had a similar reaction to green grapes. It was severe, pain radiated from my stomach to my back & it felt like my shoulders filled with lactic acid & they still hurt 6 hours later. I was driving & had to pull over, I fell to the ground in a parking lot & held the ground gasping in pain. It sucked.
For some reason I feel like I’m missing a digestive enzyme to break down these foods. At times, I thought I was having a pancreas attack or something. I wondered if it was the seeds. I’m not sure what to think, but I hate when it happens.
Maria
Aug 3rd, 2013Hey Sherri ….
I” have noticed that I have a lot of pain after eating bananas that are not quite ripe. It took me a while to figure it out. I am also having more inflammation in my joints and nasal congestion when I eat too many carbs. I can not drink beer at al. My doctor is calling it a sugar intolerance, but I don’t have high blood sugar. It is strange, indeed, but nevertheless, I must reduce my carb intake.”
You maybe allergic to barley. It caused my joints to inflame too. Avoid it for a while & see if it goes away.
Have ur Dr give you a blood test to see if you’re alleric to barley.
Nicole
Aug 4th, 2013I, too, didn’t have a problem with bananas until I became gluten intolerant. I stayed away from bananas for years and recently tried them again. I do okay with small amounts- as in banana cookies, banana baked into oatmeal or even in a smoothie. The bananas also have to be super-duper ripe, which is how I prefer them anyway. Made the HUGE mistake of having a banana today, not as ripe as I like either, and BAM! Intense pain I had forgotten about… a quick slug of papaya juice and I am almost pain free. My list of can’t-do foods is growing.. and quickly. I’m curious if any of you are taking probiotics or digestive enzymes? Usually an intolerance (and not an allergy- allergies are different) is because the body can’t break down the food.. enter enzymes. Anyway, I’m starting probiotics and enzymes so I guess I’ll see.. my list of foods I can eat is rather short…. :/
Cass
Dec 6th, 2013I ate 3 bananas on an empty stomach and 24 hr later still this horrid pain… Any idea how long it will last? Thank u
Renae
Dec 9th, 2013I am 33 and have never had a foods allergy or really any other allergies to speak of. I recently cut out processed foods and anything with gluten from my diet just to be healthier. After cutting gluten and then reintroducing it, I had digestive issues and an acne flare up. So I cut it out again because bread just isn’t worth it.
But…. I’ve been having sporadic, excoriating stomach aches over the past couple weeks. The first one was so bad, I though I was going to faint and my husband almost took me to the hospital. It has happened a few times since and I seriously thought something was wrong with me because no one else was getting sick from the food we were eating. Well this morning it happened again and the only thing I had eaten was a lone banana. And then I thought back and I had eaten a banana in some form along with other foods before my other episodes. I googled banana and stomach pain and found this thread. I’m glad I’m not the only one. As much as I love bananas, it’s good bye cause those are the worst stomach aches I’ve ever had.
Dan
Apr 2nd, 2014I’m 28 years old and recently started a exercise program called insanity. This is the second time I’ve done this program because the first time I did it I began to get horrible stomach pains and was forced to stop the workouts. I eventually went to see a doctor (which i absolutely never do), because the pains became so bad. I was convinced I had an ulcer or something seriously wrong because the pains became so intense. I went back to my old eating patterns and the stomach pains went away. I recently started the insanity program again and a lot of the meals include bananas. A week or so back in to the diet I began to get those awful pains again. I write down every meal I eat and just today I reviewed the meals I had eaten the days the stomach pains occurred and realized that every day I got those awful pains were days that I ate bananas. So I googled bananas and stomach pains and came across this link and I’m happy I did so. I’m going to cut bananas out of my diet and see if the pains stop.
Patricia
Apr 23rd, 2014I find that ripe bananas only give me stomach pain, but green tipped ones do not.
Kathy
May 1st, 2014I just figured out tonight that bananas are also causing my stomach pains. I thought this was crazy because I have been eating them my whole life and just the last 3 weeks I have started to get these stomach pains. I also googled stomach pains after eating bananas and can across this website. I am so glad I did and found others with same issues. I am currently having these stomach pains and don’t know how to relieve them. This is the longest they have lasted. Any suggestions on how to allievate some of the pain? I do not have any others food allergies that I know of so this came as a real shock to me.
Julija
Jun 1st, 2014So glad to know I’m not hallucinating. Banana, avocado, almond and watermelon are KILLERS for me. *sigh. Anyone else with that combination?
Theresa
Jun 25th, 2014Julija
Yes, it first started with Bananas and then went to Avocado, Almonds and now watermelon. I find it crazy because these are all things I loved and ate before. NOW THEY KILL ME. People think I’m crazy when I tell them 5 min after eating any of these things sends my stomach in a rage.
Pam
Aug 2nd, 2014It took me years to figure out I could not eat bananas, tomatoes or avocados. The other day I had a peach and had the same reaction. An hour after dinner I was doubled up on the couch and added peaches to the list of foods I will no longer eat, due to a Latex Fruit Syndrome. I can eat banana nut pancakes, banana bread, and stewed tomatoes. Something about heating or cooking the fruit neutralizes the proteins.
jill
Oct 22nd, 2014I also have horrible colicky spasms with bananas. I found this out by process of elimination. Now I have just begun the SAME exact symptoms and I haven’t touched bananas since I was 18 (40 now). I was convinced that it was gallbladder issues. Had scans x3. All normal besides 6 kidney stones that weren’t related to this horrific pain. I literally feel like a knife is being stabbed into my upper chest with severe pain unDer right rib through the right shoulder blade. Nausea. Hard to take a deep breath in. Pain into neck and right jawbone. Fullness feeling. Don’t want to swallow because you could disrupt a burp trying to make its way out which you feel it would relieve the pain just a little if you could just burp hugely!
My daughter and I ate chicken wild rice soup tonight and grapes. Nothing that should cause this acute shockinb pain….oh but my daughter rarely eats grapes…she has the SAME exact symptoms at the same time as me! Grapes! I have been eating loads of these all season! And have been suffering like this since they came into season (about may)!!! Now…I will eliminate these. And I hope to solve the problem! The dr called today to for me see a G I specialist because she didn’t know what else can be done for me.
I have been researchin this as well tonight. Could have something to do with fructose that is in these fruits and some ppl don’t have the enzyme to break it down…sort of like lactose intolerance or… binging on grapes or types of these fruits… another cause. I can’t eat pineapple either. Same exact symptoms. I don’t think that I have a gluten sensitivity, but perhaps I will need to research this as well.
thanks for the blog and reminding me of bananas and these acute attacks relations!
vonda
Nov 11th, 2014For 6 weeks I have had stomach pain with bloated stomach. Reflux.
I tried to work out what I eat regularly and decided it had started when I drank banana smoothies for breakfast each day for those 6 weeks. As soon as I stopped eating bananas the bloated stomach and pain and reflux went away. No more bananas for me which is rather sad. I have developed food allergies recently. Red, green, orange and yellow foods are off my menu. Sometimes I think I may as well eat cardboard as there are so many things I cannot have.
Abhishek
Jan 22nd, 2015I have eaten banana and from some days . I am suffering from stomach and abdominal pain.. This getting worse when I eat something. Please advice any drug to cure it.
Oduor
Feb 7th, 2015Glad I bumped on this site. Bananas have always been my favorite fruit, but since December last years it causes so much stomach pain. Avocado and Pawpaw….those I gave up years ago! So what am I suffering from? Gluten Intolerance??
Cassie
Feb 11th, 2015Almost every one of you need to heal your leaky gut. Some have true allergies, nothing you can do but avoid the food, the rest, seal up your perforated gut lining with bone broth, healthy fats like ghee or coconut oil, plain butter if dairy is tolerated, then build up daily dose of probiotics, preferably in the form of fermented foods. I’ve done this and was able to eat bananas, tomatoes, etc. again, but I went and ate all the chocolate and Christmas goodies I could get my hands on and now am avoiding then again until I heal my gut some more. I have celiac disease and going gluten free didn’t help enough. Had to cut out all sugar and starchy carbs while introducing a GAPS diet. Check it out and maybe you can enjoy bananas again soon.
Mary
Mar 11th, 2015I haven’t been able to eat a banana for over a year due to the horrible stomach pain they caused. I ate bananas all the time with no problems until age 42. I don’t have any other allergies or issues, but just ate some blueberries and am getting the same feeling. I am looking at the long list of foods that people are no longer able to eat and hoping that my list doesn’t get too long. Right now, just bananas and blueberries.
TraceyB
Mar 13th, 2015mmm I think those yummy bananas might just be the cause of my sudden bouts of stomach pain/cramping, sweats and feeling faint, all of which I’ve experienced all of a sudden this past week after having eaten a banana. My doctor ran blood tests and I had an ultrasound all came back clear thank goodness. I am very fortunate as I don’t have any allergies, luv my food and can eat anything, well could until now … so it will be bye bye bananas 🙁
Daniel O
Mar 28th, 2015First it was bananas. Now it’s tomatoes, grapes, apples, most berries, pineapple, spinach, and most recently beer. It’s hard to describe the pain. It’s always behind my sternum and usually goes up to the back of my throat. It’s a bloated, swollen feeling. Usually accompanied by an excess of saliva forming in my throat. Often feels like I have something stuck in my throat. Most of the comments don’t describe having saliva increase like I experience. Btw, not allergic to latex or anything for that matter. Thanks for the site; proves to friends and family that I’m not a crazy hypochondriac.
Vikki Cook
Apr 17th, 2015I’ve found this after googling ‘stomach pains after banana smoothies’. Twice in the last week I’ve had a homemade banana smoothie – something I’ve had LOADS of times in the past – and experienced a terrible stomach ache afterwards. It takes hours for it to ease off. It’s a tricky thing to describe but it’s kind of like really bad bloating but in the top part of my stomach, just under my diaphragm. It’s as though it’s solidified in my stomach or something!! Feels horrible.
Anyway, I actually am a coeliac (diagnosed 2003), but I’ve been eating bananas for years with no trouble at all so I’m not sure if it’s them or something else that seems to be related but isn’t?
Has anyone found anything that can help with the pain??
Beaver
Apr 24th, 2015ive eaten bananas all my life, until recently I had one on an empty stomach and I wanted to cry. I didn’t realize it was the banana till I started burping and all I could taste was the previous banana. the pain was intolerable and I was contemplating calling 911.i haven’t had one in weeks, and I plan on keeping it that way ..forever.
went to gastrointestinal doc and I have a list of no’s . and bananas cherries apples orange lemons and limes are all on it. Also onions garlic and a few other things. I haven’t experienced the usual constipation and bloating, so I guess its working.
coming across this blog was the best thing that happened to me today.
Sarah
May 9th, 2015Thanks so much for sharing this. I don’t have celiac disease but it seems that I suddenly became allergic to bananas. I used to eat them pretty much daily but about six months ago I started to get really bad stomach cramps, usually at night time. I had my gallbladder removed because they thought that was the problem but still the pain happened after the operation! I just decided to start eliminating things from my diet starting with bananas since I ate one right before bed one time and had the worst stomach cramps of all.
That was four months ago and I haven’t had an attack since. A few weeks back my partner baked a banana bread and I decided to try just a little bit just to see and sure enough if gave me mild symptoms of the same – quite bizarre but I am steering clear of bananas properly now!
Aimee
May 14th, 2015I am so glad to have found someone else that this is happening to! Everything thinks i’m nuts! No you just have a bug, it’s something else you’ve ate, you’ve just eaten too much of them. I was starting to think i was going crazy but then the same thing started happening with pears too! It’s hearbreaking because i adore my fruit salads! I recently went vegan and all it seems to be causing me is hassle. II don’t have celiac disease either and have no other allergies except the occasional bout of hayfever but thats all.
Elizabeth
May 29th, 2015Not celiac or gluten intolerant at all but have a slight intolerance to lactose. I had my gallbladder removed when I was 17 (26 now) and afterwards I could not eat lettuce without getting these stomach pains. All of a sudden about a 18 months ago I got these same pains after eating a banana for a mid afternoon snack. I thought it was a fluke so tried it again a week later and same pain then too. I haven’t touched banana in any form since and I miss bananas now. Avocados started doing the same thing to me about a year ago when I made guacamole. Again thought it might be a fluke so tried raw avocado and the pain was just as crippling. I absolutely love guacamole and fresh raw avocado and not being able to eat it kills me!! Today however I have just added cantaloupe to the list of things I cannot eat anymore. I ate a couple pieces for a afternoon snack and minutes later I’m laying in the fetal position in pain. Funny thing though is I can now eat small amounts of lettuce with no pain after 9 years without it! Just wish I could have my fruits and veggies back completely!!
Cat
Jun 15th, 2015Hi! So I was just googling my symptoms and came across this! The pains the original poster described are exactly what I get! They came out of the blue one day and happened very sporadically. Sometimes twice in one week, sometimes none for weeks. Seemed totally random until I discovered that whenever I had had the pain (which had actually made me faint on two occasions) I had eaten tomatoes! I have never had a problem with any foods before except that certain foods can make my lips, ears and throat itch, mainly citrus fruits/raw veg. This is like an unbearable pain, like I don’t know what to do with myself. It only stays for a few hours and then disappears without a trace. The doctor has referred me for an ultrasound and given me mebeverine to take if I get an attack. These help in about 30 – 45 minutes as they stop the stomach from going into spasm. The reason I was googling is because I have just eaten some strawberries and blueberries and have started to get the same pain, not quite as bad as when I’ve had it before but still really painful. I had some blood tests and they came back that I am not coeliac. I seem to be still fine with bananas but it’s maybe only a matter of time! Does anyone else have the same symptoms? And only with seeded fruit?
Jessica
Jun 28th, 2015What a relief to see that this is fairly common. I have terrible pain when I have bananas, avocados, and now raspberries! It took a while to figure it out but now I know. Is it an allergy? Also can you be tested for celiac if you have been gluten free for four years?
Laura
Jun 28th, 2015Hi Jessica,
It appears that it could be related to the latex allergy. Bananas and avocados and a few other things are part of the same family.
Unfortunately you can’t be properly tested for celiac disease if you are not currently eating gluten. Have a read at this:
http://glutenfreetraveller.com/topics-2/lifestyle/think-you-could-be-celiac-dont-stop-eating-gluten-just-yet/
Laura
Jun 28th, 2015Hi Cat!
The doctor gave me mebeverine too when I first started getting these awful pains. These days I just stay away from bananas (although I still miss them!) and I’m fine. If I eat too many blueberries I get pains too. I haven’t noticed it with strawberries so far.
kellyanne
Jul 9th, 2015ive read through the majority of the comments and I believe many of you need to try the LOW FODMAP DIET, however, on this diet, I have also found that bananas, corn, and now sometimes zucchini/yellow squash, tomatoes, seem to give me slight gas problems. trying to figure out the squash issue, but I read somewhere that bananas have prebiotics, which can cause havoc on people with stomach issues, ibs, etc.
does anyone else have issues with zucchini or yellow squash? ive searched everywhere and cant find anything about it! thanks all, good luck!
Daril
Jul 12th, 2015I also developed “allergies” to bananas. I have been eating them my entire life for 26 years when sudenlly one night I ate one and I got horrible cramps. I didn’t know the cause of my pain, so I ate another banana a few days after and the pain came back again, in those days I was diagnosed with gastritis , so I blamed it for the pains. But then I realized that other foods wouldn’t give me the strong pain bananas did, so besides my gastritis, the banana was to blame for my cramps, I told the doctor about it and he didn’t even paid attention to me hahaha, like he didn’t believe me. Oh well. I’m well from the gastritis now after 4 months. So I decided to eat another banana recently and bam! That horrible pain again, so there it is, I can’t eat them anymore. But the story doesn’t end there, I’m drinking Kefir for the probiotics it has to help my stomach recover from the H. Pylori treatment, so I got a banana strawberry flavor one, and I have been drinking it for the past 3 days at breakfast, guess what? Pain came back right after it. I didn’t pay much attention because I though that the raw bananas was the one I couldn’t eat, well I was wrong, it turned out that in flavor a will kick me too. At least in Kefir. So I will never ever again eat nothing that has banana on it. The other two things I ate with the kefir was bread and peanut butter, these two never game a problem before, so I don’t think there are the ones messing my stomach after breakfast
Nina
Jul 17th, 2015I realized I couldn’t eat bananas almost around 2003. Excruciating, cramping stomach pain when I would. I would have to curl up into a ball and lay in bed. I tried only a 2-3 times again in the past over 10 years to see if I had gotten over it and I haven’t. Too scared to try again. Too painful.
But recently I’ve been having a similar but not as severe reaction to cantaloupe.
It seems it has something to do with pollen/ragweed cross contamination in this fruits.
Guess I’ll have to cut out cantaloupe too…very sad.
Mindi
Aug 24th, 2015I stumbled across this site by chance. I haven’t eaten a banana in 15 years. I wish this post was around back then. At attempting to explain my “allergy” to people that it’s unbearable sternum/stomach pain, they think I’m wacko.
The closest I could find was latex food syndrome. While it isn’t all the foods, I absolutely cannot eat even a bite of banana, avacado, pear, cantaloupe or mushroom. I am fine with gluten and soy, can eat meat, dairy, etc. so a bacon chili cheeseburger is fine, but a pear lands me flat on my back in pain for hours.
This came up as I made my dh fake icecream with frozen bananas and not thinking, took a finger full of the creamy, deadly stuff. So far no pain but I’m worried.
How ling did it take everyone else to add tomatoes, kiwi, etc? The avacado happened couple years after banana. I loved guacamole but the pain was so bad, I am now so repulsed by it I can have it on same plate. Sushi places always sneak it in there it’s so hard to try to explain!!
Dennis
Aug 30th, 2015I’m 56 and found I couldn’t eat bananas as we last raisins. What’s crazy is I have eaten banana pudding(homemade with vanilla wafers) and don’t recall having the pains. It’s always worse on an empty stomach. I avoid bananas now except the occasional banana pudding(I love it). It must be an age thing because I never had a problem till after I turned 40. Ha ha. Wish they had a cure cause I love bananas. Thinking of trying a pro biotic.
Kelly
Aug 30th, 2015I cannot tell you how thankful I am to see this post. I have been experiencing this cramping you have mentioned for a few years now. I have since started a food diary where I write down absolutely everything I eat and track when I feel the stomach pain. This has helped to reveal what causes these stomach issues. So far I have a “do not EVER eat this” list that seems to be growing by the month lately. The foods I cannot eat include quinoa (this includes pastas make from quinoa flour), zucchini/yellow squash, spaghetti squash, banana squash, large amounts of tomatoes, and sometimes avocados. My whole life I have hated bananas but lately I have been trying to include them in my diet and after whipping up a batch of banana pancakes last weekend I ended up in crippling pain for 2 or 3 hours straight after consuming the meal. I am so happy to see there are others experiencing the same pain and frustration that I have been going through for the last 2 or 3 years. It is not fun but it’s nice to know that you are not the only person with a crazy stomach!
Tim
Oct 24th, 2015I have suffered stomach problems all my life.I had an operation when i a baby as my bowel was inside out.I suffered great pain at times growing up ,spending 1 or 2 weeks a year in hospital.Blood tests were taken,i was starved for days by doctors ,fluids only..no solution found!I’m nearly 60 and have found certain foods cause me severe and at times unbareable pain,this is not a complete list but the major offenders
Bananas
Nuts
Cucumber
Fruit..apple skins
Baked potato..skins
Sweetcorn
it seems the inability to digest anything with a tough skin is an obvious one,also i have been told i eat too fast!
Ron
Nov 2nd, 2015Two years ago I suffered what was without a doubt the worst possible abdominal pain known to mankind! The relentless pain lasted for several hours, while I could do little more than curl up in a ball and pray the pain would go away. After multiple occurrences, I was able to narrow it down to what I now refer to as – Evil Bananas.
I’m 49 and have no issues at all with any other foods. I can eat pretty much anything I like, except for Evil Bananas. I’m sure those who dealt with the pain get the “Evil” part.
As much as I enjoyED bananas, I have no plans to ever eat them again as long as I live…and I’m okay with that. Whatever it takes to avoid those nasty abdominal pains.
Nicole
Nov 28th, 2015I too suffer from severe intense pains after eating bananas. It started sometime in my twenties. I cannot eat bananas at all with a meal or on an empty stomach. The pain is too crippling.
Tom
Dec 2nd, 2015Interesting blog. I used to quite happily eat bananas when i was a child and practically lived on banana sandwiches. However since reaching adulthood i have been totally unable to tolerate them. Always give me terrible griping pains so have not touched them in many years.
amber
Dec 17th, 2015wow – out of the blue i started getting the burning cramping pains – until i realised every single time it happened was after eating a banana!
the burning pain does not subside for an hour or so – heat helps but i seriously cant find anything to soothe the pain while its happening! ive eaten un ripe & ripe with all the same reaction – lucky to find this post a i seriously thought i was going crazy!
Mike
Dec 17th, 2015Hi Laura
For the second time this week I’ve experienced stomach pains. I’ve, in the last 3 months, changed my diet after enrolling on a fitness and wellbeing course. I’ve lost over a stone and am physically fitter. I now eat and drink very healthily and my intake of fruit has gone up, which includes bananas. I feel now that after finding your page, it is them that’s causing the cramps. I’m gutted ( if you pardon any pun) as they are my favourite and have eaten them for years. Thanks for all your info.