Sweet things seem to irritate my stomach, what does that mean?

This reminds me of the old vaudeville joke: “Dr, it hurts when I do this!” “So, don’t do that!”

I don’t think irritation due to sweets is diagnostic of anything. Maybe it would be best if you were to cut down on sweets.

Corn syrup? Does it happen with real sugar, like fruit and such?

@tinyfaery yes fruit, well dried fruit, I don’t think fresh fruit? I have to think about whether there is a difference between sugar and corn syrup? It doesn’t happen always, but enough to notice a relationship. Whenever I get that particular irritation I realize I am eating something sweet. It’s been happening for several years, so I don’t think it is going to kill me or anything, but was curious if anyone else has the same problem.

aspartame?

@JLeslie: Too much dried fruit (prunes, raisons, apricots) can overstimulate your GI tract due to fiber rather than sugar. Gas or bloat connected to the stomach ache? I have never perceived a stomache ache in stomach, which is here, but lower in the belly where the intestines are.

I don’t eat bunches of dried fruit. Although, what sparked me to ask, is that I was eating dried apricots and it happened. I think it happens with maple syrup also. I need to pay attention more. I don’t consume the non-sugar sweeteners. It is my stomach, the actual organ, not my tummy. But, I do have maple syrup with oatmeal, which would be fiber? But, it has happened with candies also. If you all will keep following, I’ll try to get more definite examples. It is an irritation, like if I had a little bit of a cut or something, not a pain like a knife or cramp.

Thanks everyone. Maybe someone else has an answer, and I will have it happen again with another food.

ok hun, this is not hard.
sinushi suzuki, the violin pedagogue for kids, and any one else, who while going
to colledge, roomed with one Albert Einstein. well, sinny had a problem with the western food diet. so, he “changed the PH balance” within his stomach, by eating “pickeled” foods. can be a pickle, some nice pickeled herring, sour kraut, or anything with a bit of vinager. does wonders for a hangover too. not too much. just enough to quell that annoying state. try that.
i’ll send u a bill tomorrow. [no, just kidding] but a pickle a day, helps the flow, flow.
ok?

i seem to understand the concept of pickling or salting. i can tolerate a pickle, but not a cucumber.

Well I don’t have an answer, but it’s an interesting Q. I seem to have the same problem with drinking too much tea or fruit juice. Especially if it’s really tart or acidic like cranberry or apple. Wonder if I just answered my own Q??