I think I have stomach emptying issues

I’m sorry if this a long post. I’m struggling with worry and I need to share with someone until I can get to a doctor after the holidays.

For the past 8 days I’ve been having GI issues. I eat and for 2 hours I’m okay. Then I start to get bloated and feel full. This goes on for a few hours. for example last proper meal I had: ate at 1500. Heavy stretched feeling after 2 hours and then the bloated heavy feeling until 2000. At this time I had nausea then an episode of diarrhoea. Then stomach gurgling, acid reflux and stomach pain for another 3 hours. I was then was able to sleep and woke up in the early hours and had a more solid but still soft movement. I felt okay after that - no pain - except abdomen muscles soreness. My bowel movements are either strained with small amounts or very loose / diarrhoea. I can eat a full meal but I feel completely full. Over the last 8 days I’ve been in a cycle of trying a meal on one day, and having the episodes similar to the example above. Then I have a day of eating nothing as I can’t bear that experience.

I have the pain in my extreme left side just under my rib, a spasm flutter about 2 finger widths above my belly button. I then get pain on my right side, on my lower left side just above my hip and behind my belly button. In the week before this started I felt unwell: like I was coming down with a cold. I have an enlarged prostate and initially it felt like I was getting a UTI but that gave way to the Gastro.

I am a long term diabetic with poor control. I have had episodes of GERD type symptoms over the last few months: reflux, difficulty swallowing and food getting stuck. My bowel movement hasn’t really been normal for a while and I have had occasions where I’ve felt full quickly.

I think this is a stomach emptying issue. Based on my example above about eating at 1500 and then stomach ache going on for 8 hours: does that suggest it’s taking 8 hours for my stomach to empty? Is that bad? Could it be that I’ve had emptying issues for a long time but they’ve now got worse or that this is some kind of flair up.

Also I don’t understand how I can have diarrhea and problems with stomach emptying.

When I don’t eat for a day I feel fine - no pain or bloating- except that I feel leathargic and tired from not eating well. I’m trying hard with fluids which I seem to be okay with. I tried a milkshake and that was okay.

Also I take a range of medications including Amlodipine and Metformin- would these make things worse?

I’m sorry if this was long incoherent rant - I’m just scared and don’t know what’s going to happen.

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