Anxiety symptoms after eating

Your stomach/gut and mind are very much connected. You need to research probiotics and possibly start taking probiotics. just a suggestion.

Hi Tara, thanks for the reply. Today i went to the Doctor, he said that i considered going to a psychiatrist, i told him that no and explain to him again what i feel, the anxiousness, kinda depressed, exhausted, cant organize my thoughts, emotionaly horrible but just when my stomach thing ocurs, after that im ok. He gave a prescription of probiotics and something more to take before and after meals. For 1 month to see how it goes. Am i crazy? Should i visit the psychiatrist?

No! You are not crazy! It sounds to me like you are just full of anxiety. There is nothing wrong with counseling. It could help you out and make you feel lots better. Another thing that helps is exercising. It helps more than people know. And yoga also is good for anxiety. Let he know how those probiotics work out for you!

I think you definitely have something going on with your digestive system and your anxiety is a result of your brain and autonomic nervous system not being able to figure out what the problem is.  I get anxious when I eat something I know I shouldn't eat (like something very greasy) and I just ride it out and order myself not to eat it again.  I'd suggest keep a food diary, try an elimination diet (wheat, soy and corn are biggie allergens) to try to identify any specific foods that might be triggers.  If taking ranitidine or famotidine (which are h2 histamine blockers) ease your symptoms, then you definitely have a food allergy/sensitivity, maybe even Celiac disease.  I'd look very closely at the food I'm eating long before I'd go to a psychiatrist.

Protonix (Pantoprazole) is a proton pump inhibitor used to reduce acid in the stomach, Bentyl (Dicyclomine) helps relax muscles in the stomach to reduce cramping.  Sounds like your doctor is trying to help calm your digestive system down and get some immediate relief for you. I don't know if you'd want to add a detox on top of all of this, I'd suggest going simple with a bland diet and avoiding major allergens and triggers such as milk, eggs, wheat, soybean, fish, shellfish, tree nuts and peanuts (the"big 8", and see how you feel.

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Thanks so much, will do, i was drinking almond milk but i think ill cut that out like you said, im taking notes of what i shouldnt eat thanks!. Also should i visit a neurologist?

I don't have much use for neurologists - I once assumed they would know something about the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) but actually they don't - they know about nerve cells but seem clueless about systems.  In fact, modern medicine currently does not have a specialist that is an expert on the ANS.  One last thing I forgot to mention, not only what you're eating, but how much - the ANS shifts blood to the stomach and digestive system to digest a meal, and that means other parts of the body temporarily have less blood, which can result in many other side effects.  An experiment might be to try more smaller meals and healthy snacks throughout the day.

Hello again Jane, heres an update. Becayse the pill the Dr. Gave me didnt work so well he changed them to once a day "Prilosec " and twice a day " librax" cause he told me that they cal m me at the same time and it works also more daily probiotics. But i dont want to rely on pills for the rest of my life... Exercise has helped me. Im now drinking lactose free milk and eating chicken, turkey and just sometimes red meat. I think something i ate yesterday hurted my stomach cause the symtoms started today again, didnt wanted to get out of bed, kinda dreppression, axiety etc... But if i stimulate to erup it goes like in 20 min and feel a lil better... Just for curiosity i went to the neurologist and told me that yes, its all connected but theres no way we can see whats happening like some study or something so he told me what he can do is do an MRI of the head and blood test on B12 levels.

I'm glad to hear your doctor is listening to you and trying to help.  I'm not familiar with Librax.  Prilosec is intended only to be temporary, not a permanent solution.  Right now my family is on a very restrictive allergen free low histamine diet, pseudo-paleo, absolutely no cheating right now, no wheat, gluten, soy, corn, dairy, shellfish, and it has been a life saver.  Thank goodness we don't have allergies to nuts or fish.  Milk allergy should not be confused with lactose intolerance.  It would be a good experiment to give up all dairy (milk, cheese, yogurt, coffee creamers, milk-based salad dressings, etc.) for a couple of weeks.  I hate cooking and reading ingredient labels, but right now I have to cook from scratch to avoid questionable stuff from sneaking into the finished product.  I joke that I've had to go back 100 years and prepare foods like how our ancestors did.  Any form of exercise will pull blood back out of the digestive system and maybe provide some relief from digestive symptoms. The trick is to remove enough suspicious types of food out of the diet where you reliably feel good, then slowly add one back and see how you react (called a food challenge).

The neurologist is right, currently there are no tests or imaging that can diagnose this stuff, because tests and imaging just take a snapshot of the body at a given moment, and all these symptoms are dynamic and happen over time.  I'm disturbed that these days doctors seem to be relying more and more just on tests and imaging to diagnose, rather than old-fashioned observation & knowledge (and using tests and imaging for guidance), and even today tests and imaging are far from inclusive of everything that can go wrong.  My 2-cents is to skip the MRI, if you haven't had bloodwork for electrolytes and vitamin levels, that might be useful though those tests only test blood serum levels and not any deficiencies within cells, only taking supplements can test that idea.  Also allergy skin testing that includes food items might also help.  Good luck!

Hi again Jane,

After weeks of medication i got to tell you i feel the same... Told the Gastro Doc and were doing some tests to see what im allergic too gluteen etc.. Also the lactose and fructuose test cause theres gotta be something that im eating thats triggering all of this.

Also i notice that when i eat corn and i mean popcorn, chips or plain corn i feel horrible.

Corn is one of the big 8 allergens.  Corn is in everything, even vegetable oil (corn oil), gotta really watch those content labels on everything!  So is soy. I found gluten/wheat to be the easiest to avoid.  I'm ordinarily skeptical about any kind of "diet", but a new fad right now is called the "Paleo Diet" and one of its pluses is that it avoids the grains and dairy that can cause allergies.  A more "paleo-like" diet consisting of meat, fresh vegetables and fruit and avoiding all grains and soy and processed food can only help.  While I detest cooking from scratch, I've learned how and I have more control over my food and what's in it.