Was it the chicken or the wine?

[baulers]

About a month ago I had some chicken legs and some wine and the following day I had excruciating pain in my upper abdomen all day, it came and went in waves.

Looking it up it sounded like either Campylobacter from the children or pancreatitis from the wine.
Fast forward a month and I had some more chicken and wine and the next day got exactly the same pain for the whole day.
Is it more likely to be the chicken or the wine?

Well it’s reassuring to know that an app won’t be replacing clinical staff any time soon…

My money’s on gall bladder.

It doesn't sound like compylobacter, that is horrific, I had it for weeks, and ended up in hospital, dehydrated. It was last year and my bowels and I are only just back to normal!

I have this if I eat salmon. But not every time I eat salmon. Probably every other time. I'm now paranoid about cooking it beyond frankly incineration. And I only eat it hot, not cold. The very nice hospital doctor told me that you can develop an intolerance to things at any time, completely out of the blue and they can be very subtle, so some salmon fine, other salmon, not at all fine.

Having had pancreatitis, it meant a week in hospital on oxygen, morphine and antibiotics and I couldn't eat more than a few slices of cucumber a day for that whole time. My daughter has also been in hospital with pancreatitis and was also on strong painkillers and antibiotics. It doesn't just go away in a day or two.

However if you passed a gallstone that can cause awful pain and cramping in the upper abdomen, mostly on the right side just under the bottom of your ribs.

Sounds like gallstones

I think more likely to be an intolerance to one or the other. You would be terribly unlikely if 2 times in a row when you had eaten chicken and wine, the chicken or the wine had gone bad.

What do you have with the chicken? Is there anything high fat like cream?

If you got the same reaction each time and the chicken was properly cooked I’d say it’s very unlikely to be the chicken.
I currently get a heartburn like pain every so often in my upper abdomen, right in the centre and at times it feels like it radiates right round my rib cage to the back. I’m not sure if it’s heartburn or possibly a hiatus hernia or something like that. I’m working on keeping a record of potential trigger foods and so far I’ve identified too much artificial sweetener, dairy foods, occasionally fruit, anything too fatty and alcohol! But it doesn’t happen every time. Yours could be similar and possibly triggered by alcohol or specifically wine. I’d see your doctor and potentially try to isolate the cause by trying both individually.

I would say it’s more likely gallbladder pain maybe even stones. I had ‘triggers’ and looks like one of them is yours (most likely wine)

As someone who has recently got over campylobacter (confirmed by samples) you would not have stomach ache for a day. Trust me! It is the most evil thing going. I was vomiting a lot and the shits lasted over 2.5 weeks going up to 30 times a day. High temp, aches and pains and the worst stomach cramps I have ever had.

Its most likely the wine.

I was going to say the same... Sounds just like it. The chicken and wine may just be a co-incidence.. and perhaps at a BBQ there would have been slightly richer food and maybe deserts than you'd usually have.

Best Get it checked out at the GP - the earlier the better in case it is GB.

And as @SoftandQuiet suggested keep a food diary. and a note of any further pains.

These are both serious illnesses that you wouldn't recover from in a day or just randomly get a month later. It sounds to me like it could be gallstones. Go see your GP and ask for an ultrasound

Possible gallstones? Fatty foods can trigger an attack

Same, I wasn’t sick with it luckily just the diarrhoea but I lost 17lbs

Campylobacter can take up to 10 to show symptoms which are extreme diarrhoea, nausea, migraine and generally feel crap.

it could just be severe indigestion… which can be really painful.

If it was pancreatitis you wouldn’t be wondering if it was pancreatitis. I was hospitalised twice with it while waiting for my gallstones to be removed.

It could be a mild gallstones attack where they block your ducts (different to pancreatitis). The only way to know for sure if you have gallstones is to see your GP and get a scan.

Sounds like gallstones to me.

I’m thinking it might be gallstones, I bought some strange mixture of gammon and bacon misshapes from b&m and fried that for lunch the pain is back.
They were very salty.
I’m going to get an appointment and see what’s going on.

Oh no !! It’s so painful u literally can’t breathe the pain is awful !!
I don’t eat gammon anymore and touch wood I only had a couple of attacks so I’ve just carried on as normal if it got bad I’d go to the G.p though!!! Goodluck at Drs X