Hi Everyone

I'm a vegetarian, and 2 nights ago I was at a wedding where everything was either meat or seafood. SO I ate the seafood. I had lobster as my entree for the first time in several years.

Since then I have had cramping pain in my lower front abdomen around my navel area, to the sides around it and below. It comes and goes, but it's really weird. It continues in my sleep too, and keeps me up. The last time I felt similar pains was in high school, I had a bad cramping in my gut right before I got a bad intestinal flu. But I feel fine otherwise. No flu. My belly feels swollen.

I tried all my old standby's for IBS (which I have) ginger, aloe juice, charcoal capsules. Nothing works.

Anyone??

Love your avatar! City on the Edge of Forever is one of my favorites, but it makes me very sad.

Lobster is a very rich food and if your digestive system hasn't seen that type of food in years, then it's probably just in shock and having a hard time digesting it. I suspect it will get better in 2-3 days. The same thing happens to me when I eat my mom's shiskabobs. She marinates the beef in Italian dressing for 2 days and it's so rich that I end up with intestinal cramps for a good week. She only makes them about once a year and they are really tasty, so the cramps are worth it.

I'm sorry but I don't have anything useful to contribute about your abdominal pain. I don't want to come across as a b*tch on wheels but:

You are not a vegetarian if you eat seafood. I've been a vegetarian for 52 years and I am so weary of people claiming to be a vegetarian who don't eat red meat (but eat poultry) or who eat seafood.

enterprise01: Hey thanks for responding :-)! A Trekker after me own heart. I love that one too. I'm a big Trek fan. I agree with you. I think after so many years of not eating fish or shellfish and then eating that lobster, I think my guts went into a state of shock. It's slowly going away, thank god! Had me worried.

Serena: Ah..as I said, it was the first time I have eaten fish in years,(for reasons I won't get into) I don't need the "what is a vegetarian lesson." I'm a vegetarian. Not going to argue it with you. See ya. Kthxbye

I deserved that. 'Sorry, I had a pounding headache and took it out on you. I wish I could delete it.

Maybe gas from foods you don't normally eat? Try a Mylanta chewable.

Yup, princess_n_thep it went away! Man was that pain. A friend of mine told me she had the same thing happen to her once. She said that if you you not digested meat or fish in years, your body stops producing the enzymes needed to break that down. By the way, congrats on your weight loss. :-)

that is wierd.... yesterday afternoon i too started to feel this cramping sensation it lasted on and off for 1 1/2 hours then again this morning for a few minutes... almost a dibilitating cramping... my band was placed in march 2007... but i have also been having a problem lately with being able to eat in the evenings, now the early afternoon... i would take one bite and head to the bathroom to throwup... i would "get rid" of more than what i had just eaten... makes me feel like i am bulemic.. eat and throw up.... but it is while or as i am attempting to eat not after gorging myself.... this has been going on now for about 2 weeks...