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Mild stomach pain and sometimes the shortness of breath

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sayasicksam
sayasicksam

Hello,

Were your symptoms limited to bloating and gas retention? How severe was the pain on a scale of 1 to 10?

I want to find out whether I have HH before going to doctor and risking misdiagnosis because my symptoms are mild such as 2/10-pain scale of stomach/small-intestine ache/cramp and non-severe but shorter-breaths when waking up in the morning for approximately 30 minutes like I have a weight compressing my chest. For the rest of the day I feel 2/10 stomach ache/cramp constantly and 3/10 when I breathe in a large volume of air. I don't have any trouble when sleeping or lying down so far. 

I am eating a diet of 600 calories/day and was chewing 4 sugarfree gums/day until last week when I started to have these symptoms. I don't know whether low food consumption or sorbitol have anything to do with this event..

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  • mary040367
    mary040367 sayasicksam

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    I am not sure i was told i had hh hernia but just had some tests that show i have galbladder disease and yhey are removing itand my somache burning is bad now i also have a hernia though so im thinking its both for me i can barely eat anything anymore with out problems swallowing Iit down and stomach bloating Iafter just a couple bites even. abd feeling food stick in chest. shoulder blade and backpain is do bad now. I guess after galbladders,removed iI'll let y'all know if its better I still think the hernia is causing alot of the symptoms from what I have read but I do know I have galbladder disease does anyone have galbladder issues that cause the same things??

  • moandrieu
    moandrieu sayasicksam

    Posted

    I had an umbilical hernia. The pain was sharp and intense for a good 20 minutes. I felt nauseous because of the pain, and it also brought on a headache. I sat down (I was out with a friend shopping and going to lunch) and after the initial pain passed, it was all much more bearable. Reading the caloric intake you've had over the past couple of weeks would indicate that you've probably got something more going on. I'd see a doctor and not try to self-diagnose. This could be serious. That's a very low intake!

     

  • aimee1970
    aimee1970 sayasicksam

    Posted

    my doctor told mebthe sugarless gum cause gas. I have similar symptoms mild dull pain on the left mid quadrant for a while now and don't know what it is. Sometimes when i take a deep breath I hurt up my chest. Did Ekg everything for a heart test everything good just don't know I have a sliding HH a mild one.

  • liz44044
    liz44044 sayasicksam

    Posted

    I had none of what u speak of.....chest pains were my symptons that mimic a heart attack
  • ruth57068
    ruth57068 sayasicksam

    Posted

      Finally got fed up with not being able to eat chunks of food, so my regular doctor suggested that I should go in for another endoscopic procedure, which  will be having on Tuesday.   Hopefully they will find out why am still having problems eating. 

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