Constant bloating and nausea. Help??
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Hi there!
I've been reading the posts on this particular forum and have found some interesting answers. I'm still unsure as to what I should do.
All of last year I suffered with a haemorraghed cyst in my left ovary. As soon as that had disappeared, last august I started to get a hard feeling at the top of my stomach where I think my duodenum is situated. I remember having a shower and feeling really sick after eating a big meal. I started to press around my stomach and discovered that I had this hard feeling in this specific area and that if I pressed into it, I would make me gag. I didn't have any problems whatsoever before last August. All of a sudden I'm getting all of these symptoms. I've been informed that IBS can start at any point in someone's life, out of the blue. So of course, I was told these symptoms were IBS and down to stress. I suffer from constant bloating, constant nausea, constant brain fog and not being able to concentrate on anything properly, extreme fatigue and general uncomfortableness. It's really upsetting to have to undo my button my trousers everytime I eat something - small or big. I'm quite a petite woman also, so I find that it really shows when I'm bloated. I personally think that my body is struggling to digest food properly - I'm not sure what this hard feeling is? I've had millions of blood tests and I've had the HPlori breathliser test - everything has come back fine. I haven't had a scan on my stomach though. I put myself on a gluten free diet for 6 weeks and felt like I had a lot more energy, bloating went down with a lot of meals. However I was told that if I then ate gluten after that I would see a massive difference. I am bloating a lot more now that I am not gluten free but I don't see a massive difference at all. I want to be referred to see a dietician but they seem to have a problem with referring me to one!
Don't know what to do.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Tammy.
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spak tammy1993
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tammy1993
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I don't drink fizzy drinks, or alcohol or coffee and tea. The problem I do have is that I eat a lot of chocolate and don't have regular meals due to my job as a waitress and the split shifts I'm always doing. My job doesn't help at all! I'm desperate to see a dietician as I feel I really need help with what to eat. I'm such a fussy eater and all these diets are getting me down.
Thanks for the advice!
graham9772 tammy1993
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I presume from your commentrs that you have seen specialists .
I see a similarity with you.
I have RLS and found that a gluten free diet helped a bit but not completely
After a bit of mucking around I found that Monash University in Australia had developed a diet (called FODMAP) specifically for ibs. THis diet worked for me and I now have very little RLS. The diet has a lot in common with gluten free but there are other things that sound quite safe that are ruled out. The full story is available AT THE Monash web site. Also Stanford uni in the USA.
FODMAP apparently works for 50% to 70% of ibs people so it might help and the fact that gluten free made a difference perhaps indicates it might help you.
I have created a discussion on the rls forum called RLS and diet which has details about the diet but your doc or specialist should have mentioned it to you and should help you find a dietician.
If you want to try it let me know if you need any more details or if there isd anything I can do
Cheers
Graham
tammy1993 graham9772
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No I haven't been to any specialists. I've only had a lot of blood tests for various different things and they've all come back fine so they don't feel the need to send me to a specialist. Even though I keep coming back telling them that I know somethings wrong with my stomach. I haven't even had a scan on it.
I think you just get to the point where you feel it's all in your head. That's the point that I'm at now.
The fodmap diet sounds great, any info with that would be great. I'm just worried starting any diet because I'm a fussy eater. This is why I wanted to see a dietician and have help with this.
Thank you very much.
graham9772 tammy1993
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of course its not all in your head. There is something wrong and you need it diagnosed as soon as possible.
You suggest that they wont recomend you to a specialist but I dont understand why you cant just insist. Is the UK system very restrictive about which doctor you can visit? If not then see another GP and demand that they refer you to someone more experienced than they are.
My doctor didnt give me much chance that the FODMAP diet would help RLS but he encouraged me to try. He said that I really needed a dietician to help me ensure that I was getting a healthy diet and manage me when I started to reintroduce foods. You see the idea is that you go on a very restrictive diet fo about 8 weeks and then start to reintroduce food groups one at the time so you know what foods you can tolerate. In fact I think it took about 12 weeks before I felt the full benefit. Reintroducing foods has been unsuccessful so far but this is apparently unusual.
From my experience there is a lot of food you can eat like bananas, oranges or kiwi fruit and of course steak potatoes carrots etc. But you must avoid the foods not on the list absolutely. THey are nothing you might expect and include apples, pears, brochilli onions garlic. As you see "healthy" foods are on the banned list and the apparent "goodness" of the food has nothing to do with it. But if you are trying to be good dont allow even a small amount of lactose or it can mess you around and you will never know what you can or can\t eat
I have written a post in the group "restless legs and diet" in the group called restless legs syndrome where I have mentioned sources of information. I suggest you read that and let me know if you need more information.
I can give you detaiols in a private message if I can work out how to send it.
Please let me know
Good Luck
Graham
sam18386 tammy1993
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