6 months ago I started experiencing very severe gut pains 2 hours after dinner. The last bout was so bad I ended up in hospital for 5 days. (This led to a diagnosis of gallbladder trouble which was entirely separate from the gut pain which went un-diagnosed).
My assessment is that the episodes of pain coincided with my use of ground black pepper. If have no wish to test this assumption by deliberately eating pepper again as the pain is excruciating, but I would like to establish if I’m right.
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