Looking for advice, please..
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Hallo,
i am 40 men, fit (martial arts instructor), I do not smoke, drink or take any drugs at all. Three months ago I have started to have sudden chest pain (dull, throbbing pain and sometimes light aching), epigastric pain with lots of burping and gas, lightheadedness and dizziness. First 2-3 weeks I had a lot of acid but now that is gone. It is always wors/bad in the morning after I wake up. I sleep perfectly though. As soon as I wake up I need to go straight to empty my bowel which is mid loose. After 30min I have to repeat it again this time it is very watery. Some mornings it is accompanied with dizziness and light shivering. Hot shower sometimes helps for a very short time. While all this happening I have irregularity in my heart beat and pain in the mid/left chest. After all this 'routine' I do get mild headache and feel very tired. I had many standard ecg's, blood tests, chest X-rays, stress ecg and echocardiogram done and doctors say my heart is fine. Two weeks ago I had 24h ecg and they find out that at one point (11pm) my heart rate dropped to 31 bpm. (my usual is 52 bpm). Further, I had stool samples test (all clear) and endoscopy. I was diagnosed with Coeliacs disease (Marsh 3). Since then I have been on gluten free diet but my problem is not getting better (it's the same). Any ideas, please? Thank you.
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nancy36508 TB1977
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Hi TB, I am so sorry to hear what you have been going through. It sounds like my story. Ten years ago, I fainted one day, and after being taken to the ER, things just kept getting worse. I had daily pain and diarrhea (at least two episodes of that every morning). Like you, I had every test there was. They did not find anything wrong, but they kept trying different medicines on me. They diagnosed me with IBS, acid reflux, and after a colonoscopy, with lymphacytic colitis. Looking back, I have to say that I believe all this was caused by stress. I am a single mom, and my daughter was very young. And I was teaching full time. And the biggest thing was that I had been transferred to a very unfriendly school. Some of the teachers there were so mean! So I'm just wondering...do you have a stressful situation where you work? I mean so stressful that you would be better off not working there? If so, try to change that. Now I pretty much have all the gastro stuff under control and no medicine. The only problem I have now is costochondritis, and I'm trying to get that under control. Good luck, and let me know what you do.
TB1977 nancy36508
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Hallo Nancy. Thank you for your reply. Yes it's annoying to start the day in pain/not feeling well. My work is physical but not stressful and I enjoy it so stress do not come from there. Last year I was finishing university and I had my first symptoms but it was only for a very short time which I linked to being a full time 'older' student with full time job. But you right stress it's a trigger in many cases. I need to look into it deeper. Thx.