Bloating, nausea, tiredness, thirsty, dizzy, fast heart beat, help?

hi Louise, I been Suffering Ibs for 22 years .who ever said ' it rains but never pours ' must had Ibs. One little thing starts a change reaction and the next thing it takes two months to get back to the start .The foggy head is where the toxin leaking through the gut .It isn't the most common side effect but it is one of them.

The biggest problem can be is the anxiety attack thinking there something else wrong.The anxiety makes everything seems worse than it is. The amount of times I go the doctors for a check up but for peace of mind it helps. My own Ibs is foggy head, feeling sick and wind.everybody symptoms different . Find your trigger ,keep a food diary record everything and see if you can see a pattern. I'm afraid the feeling don't go but with a great diet exercise it will improve.

That is interesting about the foggy head David - I get those quite a lot. Have you found anything that helps to clear it?

Hi Margaret , I had the foggy head for quite a few years and I haven't found anything to help .I found It worse if I am sitting around ,moving and getting the blood around the body helps and it takes my mind of it.

I think you are right David - I find much the same thing but it is sometimes quite difficult to get up out of a chair and do something!

I had exactly what u described about foggy head, headaches, pounding heartbeat.

I dramatically reduced my sugar and caffine intake. Foggy head, morning headaches, lack of concentration etc all gone. Took about 6 weeks in total to see the benefits. Google 'sugar addiction'. After reading articles on that I had a lightbulb moment and realised sugar was causing loads of issues for me.

What your describing about bloating etc matches symptoms of SIBO. I also think this is what has caused all my ibs trouble. I'm now trying to treat it with a better diet and vsl3 probiotic. I think it's slowly working. Infortineatly trying to obtain rifixamin in the uk is somewhat difficult, else I'd be using that antibiotic to wipe out my gut bacteria and start again from scratch

HI I had all these issues too! It was hell, I had every test under the sun at the doctor so she decided to blame it on anxiety and stress so wanted to put me on anti depressants, when I knew that that was not the issue. I was complaining to a med student one day and they had me try the fodmap diet! It basically eliminates any food that is even mildly hard to digest. Through it I have learnt that little things like garlic make me bloated, I can't even eat apples. I know if I eat an apple in the morning I will be bloated for the day, and have ongoing fatigue the next! This diet has changed my life I can not recommend it enough. Before going on it I just got so so so bloated after every meal, I was buying new clothes to hide the fact that after lunch I miraculously looked pregnant, I was also constantly fatigued, I went from taking 5 gym classes a week to none. 

There is a monash university fodmap app that you can get on your phone, it tells you what you can and can't eat and serving sizes, I think it was $10, try this for a week! It honestly change my life! 

I recommend fodmap above everything else, but I also learnt that I was vitamin B deficient, yet this didn't come up in any original tests, as my body was receiving plenty of B vitamins. But because of my bad digestion my body had stopped converting the b vitamins, into B12. So I now take a B12 supplement every day as well, this wont help with the bloating but will improve the fatigue. A B vitamin will not work though, you need to get the converted B12. 

I hope this helps! I can not encourage you enough to try this! I suffered from all your wifes symptoms for over a year, and it is hell as no doctors can offer any answers or help. 

Hi Louise, did you ever find a solution to your problem. I have almost word for word the same symptoms as you and any bro would be appreciated

Hi Louise!

Youbare describing exactly what happens to me for at least 3 years now!!!

I'm trying to fight it by taking various meds for the nausea but no success.

Have you found any solution to this?

I had these same symptoms and was sent to Mayo Clinic where I was diagnosed with Orthostatic Intolerance, a type of POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome). Look it up. You'll be amazed at the similarities. Mine was caused, likely, by a viral infection and leaves me with low blood volume which causes most of the symptoms. I have to eat a very high salt diet and take a few meds daily but I'm a new person!!!

Hi, you should get tested for H. Pylori infection in your stomach. My mom had very similar symptoms, and that's what she had. Not all doctors test for it. You need to make sure they checked for it, and if not just ask to have the breath test done. It's super easy, and worth it. It could possibly also be the cause for your acid reflux.

Hello Louise, I may be able to shed some light on a few probable causes. I to suffer from what your describing, without seeing a GP it will be hard to tell for sure though, There is a chance you could be suffering from hyperglycemia in which case you would have extreme thirst, feeling drowsy & bloated this occurs when you have a high glucose level or it may be the complete opposite and be "Glycemic" when you have low glucose levels. Everything comes down to your diet in the end & there are mental health problems that may be the probable cause, you could be suffering from Anxiety and panic disorder in which case you will feel dizzy, bloated, tired, blurred vision, fear for no reason, feeling faint & weak, feeling like your heart is racing really fast, lump in you throat/feeling hard to breath overal a really sh*t feeling which i suffer severely from, go consult a GP about hyperglycemia, Glycemic, Anxiety and panic disorder or IBS it definitely sounds lime one of them & it will mainly revolve around your diet, hope you can fix the issue.

PS. Eat Healthy

Do you have trouble swallowing? Most of the symptoms sound like mine but I have to get scoped before I get answers.

The reason I ask about swallowing is I also have a rare disease called Achalasia. It normally takes the doctors several years to figure this out.

Right now I have nause, bloating and severe cramps

I have been this gerd for almost 1yr...my anxiety makes it worst ....and im always thinking im going to die....