Eating Onion Gives Me A Headache - What Food Do You Like That Don't Like You!

@ellie333 (21016)
August 24, 2008 7:28am CST
I love chesse and onion toasted sandwiches and also cheese and ham, I am fine with the cheese and ham so I know it is not the cheese, but whenever I eat cheese and onion though afterwards I get a headache. I love onions in most things I eat and it only seem to be when raw rather than cooked that they give me a headache. A friend loves spicy food but it aggrevates there stomach so are there any foods you love but cannot eat? Ellie :D
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
24 Aug 08
The problem at my end is that all foods LOVE me! Maybe if they didn't then I wouldn't eat so much of it..... I am not aware of having any food allergies and my body seems to tolerate pretty much anything I put into it. I have always been adventurous with food too and have travelled a lot so I feel I have definitely given the stomach a damn good test in this regard as well! lol.
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi James, I can eat anything except for raw onion but I do eat it as I like but it doesn't like me. All food loves you, thats great to hear and some people can be intolerant to all sorts can't they so we are both fairly lucky there. Thanks for sharing. Ellie :D
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24 Aug 08
Hi ellie, Onions don't give me headche but chocolate gives me head sometimes or red leicester cheese does gives me mugraine, I'm surprise all that running arou trying to catch fish didn't give you headache he he he. Love and Huggles. Tamara
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Tamara, I have heard that chocolate and cheese can give you headaches but onions I really don't know why, I thought it was the cheese at first but realised I could eat cheese and ham toasties without getting one so i had to be the onion. Your are my punishment partner now apparently as we are both an hour away from him, my back up if I run out of puff chasing him LOL Huggles. Ellie :D
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Well it would have to be the ones with four wheels as I would fall off the single track ones they do LOL.
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24 Aug 08
Hi ellie, We'll have to hire a pair of rooer skates I think because I'm not much good running he he he Love and Huggles Tamara
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@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
24 Aug 08
[i]Hi ellie, I always love to have onion in almost anything we will cook in the house, but, I will always set is aside when I will eat! I love it's smells but I can't eat it! My husband find it weird! LOL! he loves eating it! There is no food that will give me some headache honestly, only when I eat too much of everything! LOL![/i]
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Checapricorn, That is strange that you cook with it and love the smell but can't eat it eh! I really don't know why onion gives me a headache though. Huggles. Ellie :D
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• China
25 Aug 08
Hey, if my aunt cook the chicken or lobster, she won't eat it herself, that's strange. But yeah, some people do act like that.Grins
@littleowl (7157)
24 Aug 08
Hi Ellie..for some unknown reason cream mised with anything like mushrooms and onions (thats gorgeous if you haven't tried it) with fish, chicken anything like that it is lovely but lets say it makes me go to the toilet a bit too often after having it...love and huggles littleowl
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Littleowl, So really any rich sauces which I love also, I will have a creamed mushroom sauce with chicken a lot. No point it having it though if it makes you bad eh! I am lucky it is just onions really I should avoid but don't. Huggles. Ellie :D
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@littleowl (7157)
24 Aug 08
Hi Ellie..I know I should avoid it but it is so scrumptious I don't either lol..Huggles littleol
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@gemini_rose (16264)
24 Aug 08
Oh wow, where do you want me to start!! I have absolutely loads of foods that I love but do not love me. I will give you a few examples, pork, beef, lamb, onion, tomato, cucumber, sometimes cheese, bread, sometimes chocolate, minced beef dishes, burgers, bran flakes, weetabix, certain crisps, Pizzas, those are some of the things that I can think of but I expect if I think about it I can come up with a few more. When I eat these things, I get terrible bellyache and feel ill for a few days.
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Gemini_rose, Wow that is very limiting, so perhaps it may be easier to tell me what you can eat. The only think I don't enjoy out of all you listed is cucumber, I just don' eat it, don't like it. Wow you must suffer from a lot of tummy aches, shame. Thanks for sharing. Ellie :D
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@gemini_rose (16264)
24 Aug 08
Yes it is bad, it is looking more like I have IBS and I have to say that it is not very nice at all. Right what I can eat, I can eat apples, bananas and porridge, I can eat, pasta in small amounts and I can eat chicken. At the moment what i normally eat in a day are two apples and a banana for lunch and then a bowl of porridge and fruit for my evening meal. Sometimes I can eat bits of things, so I tend to pick when I get fed up of porridge, I will just have a mouthful of something. When I just feel like "oh sod it, if i get bellyache tough" i will eat what i want and just hope that i dont suffer!!
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Well at least you can eat chicken, there are plenty of things you can do with that, how awful for you. I would be like you also and have a little bit every now and then and put up with the belly ache too. Ellie :D
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@mands61123 (2098)
24 Aug 08
oh babes we could be here all night with the list of what i'm not supposed to eat! I can't have too much bread, too much diary, i am not suppoed to eat anything spicy, cranberrys double me over as do green grapes & kiwis. I can't have chilli or orange juice or anything to greasy. I don't avoid all of this but i try to just steer clear of the really bad ones like cranberry and grapes (i eat red grapes and cherrys instead weird i know). I just go in moderation or take tables before hand but i usually end up poorley with bad stomache pains or opposite and am on the loo. If i was a horse i'd have been put down by now.
@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Mands, It must be so frustrating not to be able to eat the foods you like. I guess I am lucky because it does only seem to be raw or nearly raw onions that do it to me. Huggles. Ellie :D
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24 Aug 08
i'm naughty quite often if i'm honest then i take my food diary to my doctor and he's likemmm you've missed a fair few things off here and i'm like *sheepish look* no not that many maybe a few *grins*
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@cyberfluf (4996)
• Netherlands
24 Aug 08
Do not mess with the pineapple! - I couldn't resist... lol
LOL, love the title of your discussion! Pineapple really hates me, it gives me stomache pains and if I really eat a lot I will get a rash too. I like it a lot though, I like the juice, the fruit itsself, I like it on pizza and I like it in sorbet ice-cream and icelollies. So pretty much everything! I don't know what I did to make it mad at me but whenever I eat it, it attacks me! . Caramel love me to, and I love caramel, nothing wrong there but I do have to be carefull as it also adds lots of lovely lovehandles if I don't watch what I eat LOL!
@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Cyberfluf, I love pineapple too but I am okay with it, my younger daughter loves strawberries but they give her tummy pains and a rash also. Caramel yes, too much and the love handles can become a bit excessive eh! LOL. Ellie :D
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@cyberfluf (4996)
• Netherlands
24 Aug 08
Lol, true! Good thing I work out, keep the caramel coming .
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@tigerdragon (4297)
• Philippines
25 Aug 08
maybe if you just eat a few and that will do. i guess onions gives you a high. maybe it is raising your blood to a level where the body cannot tolerate. also increasing your libido, they say that onions are aphrodisiacs.
• Philippines
27 Aug 08
i am not being a devil's advocate but the reality is that we are only human and we have our biological needs. it is not a want, it is a need for our bodies to function physiologically well. it is good for our health and wellness.
@ellie333 (21016)
25 Aug 08
Hi Tigerdragon, an aphrodisiac, I never realised that and as celibate I suppose frustration could be giving me the headache LOL. Ellie :D
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
24 Aug 08
Margarine. I know, I know it's not real butter and I don't usually like non-real foods...but it's delicious, brings back memories of being at Grandma's house...and more than a tiny amount makes me ill. My stomach gets upset, which makes me dizzy.
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi xParanoiax, It is really annoying when we like something but it doesn't like us, making your tunny upset and feeling dizzy is just not good eh! Ellie :D
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
24 Aug 08
I do like garlic but it doesn't agree with me. When I eat alot of it I burp alot and the taste is sickening. I just eat it limitly! xoxoxoxoxoo
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Raydene, Oh I love garlic too so it must be frustrating for you that is makes you burp. I don't eat cucumber because of this but I don't like the taste anyway so I am not bothered by that one but I do like raw onion. Ellie :D
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@derek_a (10873)
25 Aug 08
The main offender for me is dark chocolate. I love to eat it, but I don't have to eat a lot of it to get a very bad headache usually occurring the next day. Sometimes I think it's a coincidence, but it happens every time.
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@derek_a (10873)
27 Aug 08
Yes, I think different people have different food sensitivities. I once attended an allergy clinic and tested positive for eggs. Not entirely convinced that I was, I ate two eggs after stopping eating them for about a week and broke out in a ithcy rash. Other foods I need to watch, but not quite so sensitive to are tomatoes and potatoes, which apparently belong to the same food family. I can eat them OK, but not too many.
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@ellie333 (21016)
25 Aug 08
Hi Derek, Dark chocolate does seem to affect a lot of people like this, one person says it gives them migraines. It took me a while to suss out that it was the oninions that were doing it to me. Ellie :D
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
24 Aug 08
Sounds like you have an allergy! I can eat almost anything...dairy products produce a nasty after effect if you know what I mean....best eat that when no one else is around! LOL
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Jill, Yes dairy products can do that to a lot of people which is why inially I thought it was the cheese giving me a headache rather than the onion but I was fine with cheese and ham so it had to be the onion. Ellie :D
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
24 Aug 08
Chocolate gives me a migraine. Sometimes my craving gets the better of me and I suffer.
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
24 Aug 08
It's also beginning to affect my son the same way.
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Irishidid, I have heard that chocolate can give people migraines, that must be so frustrating because who doesn't like chocolate. Ellie :D
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@di1159 (1580)
• United States
24 Aug 08
Honey roasted peanuts are my downfall. I love to eat them, but when I have too many or have them late at night, I get a major headache. I understand they are very hard on the digestive system and when mixed with other things are even harder to digest. I love them dearly, but I'm trying to limit my consumption.
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Di1159, You are the first person to respond that also gets a headache from eating something, how strange, many seem to get upset tummies but not headaches. Thanks for sharing. Ellie :D
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@subha12 (18441)
• India
25 Aug 08
i love some food that I can't eat are like ice cream, cold drinks etc. i feel a pain in my throat. it happens more if i take them more. otherwise I am OK with all foods that I like.
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@ellie333 (21016)
25 Aug 08
Hi Subha, yes icecream can sometime be so cold it gives you brain freeze but didn't realise it could give pain in the throat. Ellie :D
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
25 Aug 08
That's weird that you get headaches from eating onions...I love onions (and garlic) and thank goodness never have that reaction. Most of my food problems will stem from them "repeating" on me...like green peppers, and bananas. Another symptom that a food might, uh, well, give me a bit of the runs....like for some reason spinach and I LOVE spinach
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@ellie333 (21016)
25 Aug 08
Hi Pyewacket, Yes it is very strange that onions give me a headache but the response below yours his wife also suffers from headaches when she eats them. Oh yes there are always foods that repeat a bit, Spinach is one of my daughters favourites too. Ellie :D
@PearlGrace (3171)
• United States
25 Aug 08
I can't think of a single food that I love or even like that hurts my stomach. I've never been a fan of bleu cheese, but my husband really likes it. So I make this fresh spinach salad that has toasted walnuts, bleu cheese, and a maple syrup dressing. It's delicious, and I don't even like bleu cheese! But, one time, I ate quite a bit of the salad, and it made me very sick afterward. And I noticed that each time I ate the bleu cheese, it made me have a stomach ache. So now, I just make 2 separate salads and put cheddar on mine and the bleu cheese on my husband's. And, I don't get sick anymore. So, I guess I should have stayed away from the bleu cheese in the first place!
@ellie333 (21016)
25 Aug 08
Hi PearlGrace Yes but if it was that delicious it is tempting eh! I personally don't eat blue cheese so I wouldn't know if I had this problem or not. At least you avoid now eh! Huggles. Ellie :D
@pauld43 (194)
• United States
24 Aug 08
I love onions and green pepers but sometimes they give me heartburn .
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Pauld, Yes a lot of people suffer with heartburn, it must be very frustrating when you love the food that gives you it. Ellie :D
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@ShellyB (5241)
• United States
24 Aug 08
Right now not that I am aware. But I find interesting that you know and that is a plus, you will avoid some of your
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Shelly, I never used to realise that is what is was but as I don't suffer from headaches whenever I ate onion I found I got one so I finally linked the two. Ellie :D
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@ShellyB (5241)
• United States
25 Aug 08
That is a nice work in knowing yourself. Like I should have said before, that will avoid you some of your headaches at least :) or all of them.
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@puicuno (75)
• Italy
24 Aug 08
Good title :) uhm..sometimes eggs don't like me. especially my stomach. same thing with capsicum.
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@ellie333 (21016)
24 Aug 08
Hi Puicuno, Yes eggs do seem to upset a lot of people. Thanks for the compliment re the title. Ellie :D
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