Pain After Eating Bananas

[aggieterpkatie]

This is really weird, but I was wondering if anyone here has experienced the same thing. It seems when I eat very ripe bananas (when I can actually choke them down..not my favorite), I get pain in my jaw (the joints) and my chest (which might be my esophagus). Does anyone know what causes that? Very yellow bananas don't seem to cause it, but the ones that are really ripe do. It's awful! I dont' know why I continue to eat those ripe bananas, probably because I don't want to waste it.

It can't be an allergy if it doesn't happen every time, can it?

 

[baymule]

I have absolutely no problems with bananas. It’s because I don’t eat them, never have, never will. Not even as a baby, usually one of those first foods out of a baby food jar. My mom said I refused to eat it. I loathe, hate and can’t stand bananas.
Bananas stink, are mushy , disgusting and taste terrible. Yuck. I’d just as soon eat a pile of dog vomit. No banana bread, pudding, no banana anything. I won’t even make banana pudding for my husband, I refuse to handle, peel or cut the vile smelling things. Shudders up my spine. Ick.

 

[Marie2020]

Don't hold back -tell us how you really feel @baymule!

Of all the brave and crazy things in life that @baymule can deal with that leaves me shuddering at the very thought, but a banana scares her?

Now I have the perfect weapon to defend myself from her
Stick em up baymule

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Don't hold back -tell us how you really feel @baymule!

 

[Ｇｕｒａ 小さなサメ]

wow. even in 2020 this helps.

 

[Marie2020]

wow. even in 2020 this helps.

wow. even in 2020 this helps.

I'm really amazed at what I am learning in the small amount of time I've been in here.

 

[Wifezilla]

An intolerance or allergy can cause weird symptoms like that. As for bananas being good for you...not exactly.

Celery has more potassium than a banana, and bananas are loaded with sugar.

 

[abifae]

Are you allergic to latex? Bananas are the same protein.

 

[Wifezilla]

Huh. That list explains why I react to bananas as well as wheat. Nothing severe, but too much banana bread can have me breaking out in hives. Tomatoes were also on my intolerance list when I had my allergy testing, but I eat them anyway If I don't eat them with wheat I seem to be fine.

 

[Marianne]

Hi redridinghood! I see this is your first post.

I think too, that sometimes your system just starts to have a sensitivity to stuff that you had no problem with for years prior. My mom ate cucumbers for years, now she says that her mouth kind of burns when she eats them.

I'm lucky, no reactions to anything except a few years ago, I started itching like mad after taking penicillin for an abcessed tooth. Dentist told me not to take it ever again. But chow? I can eat whatever I want.

Interesting about the bananas.