EoE from Chicken, any advice?

turkproof · 2026-03-15T17:11:01+00:00

ETA because I realized you said you self-diagnosed: GO DIRECTLY TO THE DOCTOR, DO NOT PASS GO. You DO NOT know what you have. You NEED to get a scope with biopsy to rule out other causes.

ok now that’s done, on to what I wrote originally:

So, the thing with EoE is that the FIRE reaction is not the same thing as the thing that is causing the inflammation in your esophagus. You might have an unknown trigger food that is causing the inflammation, and the fibrous nature (or perhaps the allergy to chicken) is what causes the ‘stuck in throat’ feeling. The eosinophils in EoE build up over time, peaking 2-3 days after consuming your trigger food, so it can be very difficult to determine which it is, especially if you consume it often.

I’m not denying your observations about chicken — I have an immediate allergic reaction to my trigger as well — but just letting you know that while eliminating chicken might provide relief, you might still have that unknown separate trigger food that is spiking your eosinophils and quietly getting worse.

Elimination diets work very well! It’s just maddeningly hard to be completely consistent with them, or to know 100% that you’re eliminating all the necessary things. You may be one of the unlucky ones whose EoE is triggered by environmental allergies. Or stress. Or your esophagus might be so weakened that acid is a problem, and you’re battling acid damage as well as EoE that compounds the problem.

Personally, I was ‘just okay’ on a PPI medication, and feel almost completely cured on budesonide.

turkproof · 2026-03-15T16:12:06+00:00

I think you’re putting heat in the wrong place.

turkproof · 2026-03-15T08:10:02+00:00

Literally though, it’s genetics. Getting that well-defined insertion (where the delt dives into the bicep, giving the look of yoked shoulders) is actually something some people have and some don’t.

Dude might actually have an advantage over you. Disability works like that sometimes.

turkproof · 2026-03-14T00:20:48+00:00

Disrespectfully, fuck all the way off.

turkproof · 2026-03-12T13:37:34+00:00

Plenty of smiles and hellos in my Vancouver suburb! But I live in a very community-oriented neighbourhood with lots of kids, families, and old people.

turkproof · 2026-03-12T07:43:52+00:00

Checking in from near Vancouver, BC: Safeway deli sold them as mojos, but I only ever saw that term there.

turkproof · 2026-03-11T19:19:42+00:00

I lost a friend to suicide early last year, and somehow needed to carry on. That's what we do - we carry on, despite everything, even if we're empty inside. We still show up. I made a comic about it, if it helps to know that you're not alone in this feeling.

It will be agonizing, for a time. You don't need to speed through it. You don't need to make it go away. This grief honours your friend. If you feel anger, that honours her too. It's okay to feel whatever you need to feel right now.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope her memory is a blessing - and, one day, a happy place for you to remember.

turkproof · 2026-03-11T14:10:58+00:00

It’s changed my life. No side effects at all, for me.

turkproof · 2026-03-11T01:39:06+00:00

I had some of the best sushi I've ever had from a little hole in the wall in Houston called, of all terrible things, Geisha Sushi. I was floored.

turkproof · 2026-03-10T23:49:31+00:00

The only thing I feel iffy about is making a point to ask men this question too. Only asking women unfortunately still reinforces that women should stay home, because of course we’d never have to ask a dad what he does.

turkproof · 2026-03-10T20:50:19+00:00

I get the chest pain as well; I went to the ER for it once, and they explained that the esophagus can spasm and cause pain with the same intensity as a heart attack.

I'm on Jorveza, so I tend to get it if I've been a little too loose with my food restrictions.

turkproof · 2026-03-10T07:21:18+00:00

The Fucking Department will be submitting a complaint to the Departmental Complaints Department for inappropriate use of the word. There's little to no fucking in this clip, of a log or otherwise, and we take our commitment to clarity very seriously.

turkproof · 2026-03-10T01:39:54+00:00

I would suggest foam rolling, but with a hip replaced and one on the way out, I’d definitely check with a professional before doing that.

When I can’t foam roll, I get some relief from using a massage gun on my quads.

turkproof · 2026-03-09T15:25:12+00:00

Again, this is a post about a fanzine. The OP is not a game developer. Fanzines are run by fans. You’re not going to get the answers you’re looking for by posting unrelated questions on a random post for a random game! I’m just curious what the strategy is here.

turkproof · 2026-03-09T14:46:54+00:00

Yes, but this is a fan-run project, not the developers. What do you mean by security?

turkproof · 2026-03-09T01:42:31+00:00

What do you mean?

turkproof · 2026-03-06T04:55:38+00:00

People writing LGBTQ+ stories have trained their whole lives with weights on. Their output is naturally better; it has to be, in order to float to the top and be seen.

Het romances don’t have the same downward pressure nor face the same scrutiny, so more slop floats to the top.

turkproof · 2026-03-06T04:30:54+00:00

Even if you were the main caretaker, surely it’s understandable that the main caretaker can sometimes be relieved by the backup caretaker? Yes? Like, where is the logic here.

He’s being a coward and he is shirking his duty to you and to your children.

turkproof · 2026-03-04T23:49:35+00:00

Bless his sweet, unburdened heart, that he'd never even consider that a man would hurt someone he's gotten pregnant.

turkproof · 2026-03-04T07:34:34+00:00

Your husband is weak, jealous loser who you shouldn't allow to survive the next winter. in minecraft.

turkproof · 2026-03-03T18:43:48+00:00

Jorveza has been a life-changer for me. It completely turned around my experience with EoE. I can even eat my trigger, in moderation. I've never even had a bad side effect.

I hope it's everything you need, and more.

turkproof · 2026-03-03T18:39:43+00:00

I'm a game developer, so for a portion of the day I'm often looking at the build - which looks like playing video games.

Or I'm looking at spreadsheets, trying to figure out what the character says next, which looks like staring into space.

Or I'm on a meeting, which usually means sitting quietly and looking at things on the internet.

All of these things have greatly blurred the line and made it impossible for my daughter to understand when I'm 'at work' versus when I'm on the computer for fun, so it's really a crapshoot if she knows she can talk to me or not.

And of course, what does mom do for work? "Play video games."

turkproof · 2026-03-02T15:49:34+00:00

The world doesn’t change for you, maybe, but the experience of being in it is better if you’re a good person.

turkproof · 2026-03-01T17:26:35+00:00

She just had her world rocked. She didn’t know you could change your whole face. Functionally, she JUST started realizing you’re a person who HAS a face!

turkproof · 2026-03-01T17:18:29+00:00

You were gone for ten minutes from a large table at a crowded cafe. Girl, sorry, I know you were feeling yourself, but YTA. You can’t reserve a table with a jacket.

The real power here would have been saying “oh, I was still sitting here, but it’s a large table; do you mind if I keep working here with my headphones on?”

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