Re: Pancreas pain and alcohol

[Guest guest]

Sandy,

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I'm so sorry that

you had such a bad experience on the weekend. I've always

been leery of that myself, especially at restaurants when the

menu selection says anything about wine in the sauce. It's

made me afraid to eat ANYTHING at the restaurant that has any

sauce with it!

This week I made my own homemade spaghetti sauce at the

pleading requests of all my family. I hadn't made it since I got

CP, because the sauce does contain some red wine (usually 1

cup), that is thrown in at the last simmering. I tasted it midway

through the simmering process and it just didn't taste right

without it, so I went ahead and put 1/4th cup in. Then I let the

sauce boil back up and kept it furiously cooking 30 minutes

more.....gulp! Then it simmered for another half hour before we

ate, I mean I cooked that sauce to death and back!

No tummy problems afterward, CP-wise. But it played HAVOC

with my blood sugar levels! I avoid pasta, and have to by-pass

pizza because of the wild BG reactions I get from all those carbs,

but even though I dosed correctly for the higher carbs my BG's

went crazy. I went into a severe low first (38) and then rapidly

jumped into an escalating high, which I had to dose for twice

throughout the evening to get it under control. I've learned my

lesson, and know now that it's just not worth the hassle

afterwards to eat those foods.

I hope by now that you're feeling 100% better, and enjoying a

happy holiday.

With hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina

SC & SE Regional Rep.

PAI, Intl.

Note: All comments or advice are personal opinion only, and

should not be substituted for consultation with a medical

professional.

Sandy wrote:

My old specialist said that alcohol was fine in cooking as all

alcohol burns off and you are just left with the flavor. But he also

said to be careful eating this food as the pancreas can be

sensitive to the taste as well. He was right. I had SUCH an

attack saturday night that I was in agony for about 5 hours. I so

wanted to go to the hospital because the nausea was so

bad and the phengren and reglan DID NOT do anything to touch

the nausea.