It's only greasy foods for me, and certain asian dishes. Let's just say that I seldom want to go to a Chinese restaurant anymore. The plus side is if I need a good "cleanout," I can just fry up a sausage. HAHA
I had some intestinal issues a few years ago (age 63 or so) and have been fine except for a sudden fat intolerance. It has subsided some, but not completely gone away.
That was the smart of long line of episodes for me until my wife took me on the floor of my car to the doctors and then hospital operating room.
It lead to gall bladder removal. It took a while. I would wake up with discomfort that would go away shortly and then days later it would occur again until the one time that it couldn't stand the pain and laid on the floor of the car(it was a 9 passenger wagon so big enough to lay down).
That stinks. My nephew had his removed when he was a kid due to a soccer collision. He went on to be a chef. I hope that's not the direction I'm headed.
Well even if you're headed thatway it is less intrusive now. I have a 7 inch scar still from 1972 and spent a week inhospital. Now you get a teeny one and go home the next day.
I had been having gall bladder "attacks" for a couple of years but I didn't know what it was at the time. I had a burning sensation in my upper abdomen. One night it got really bad; a white-knuckle, break-out-in-a-sweat pain. I went to a gastroenterologist who diagnosed gall bladder disease and sent me to a surgeon. I had laparoscopic surgery; a small incision in my navel and you can't see it at all. It was outpatient surgery; I was home in a couple of hours and up and around the next day. Piece of cake.
Supper tonight will be roasted chicken, steamed broccoli and roasted potatoes. I made a cheesecake last night so I suppose that will be dessert.
A friend's wife had that in 1990 or so. They made a small incision, deflated the gall bladder like a balloon, pulled it out, looked at her and said "You still here??? Go home!" It truly is amazing. I had symptoms of a small stroke, but the cardiologist does not think it really was a stroke. He did an EKG in his office and found a "small vegetative growth" on my aortic valve. There are very common, but he wants to look, anyway. Before COVID hit, I was scheduled to go into the hospital and be lightly sedated so they could stick an ultrasound camera down my esophagus, press it against my heart, and take pictures of the valve!!!
When I lived in Northern Virginia, there was a place called World's Best Cheesecake around the corner. For a while I was going in every Saturday and buying a 2# cheesecake and having it during the week with all sorts of fresh fruit on it (REALLY good with kiwi fruit.) I had to stop doing that. Lord knows what it did to my cholesterol. I was doing a lot of bike riding at the time, so it didn't affect my weight.
I absolutely love cheesecake. I tried out a recipe that is lower calorie/fat (but I couldn't bring myself to use artificial sweetener) and what a waste of ingredients. Very ho-hum without the graham cracker crust. We'll probably eat a slice tonight and toss the rest... lesson learned. I knew that I'd rather have a small piece of the real deal than a truckload of "reduced calorie" junk.