Nausea/Gas Problems for 10 years. Can't get anyone to take me seriously

Hi everyone. I hope you're all keeping well. I have been having a lot of stomach issues for the past 10 years and I am really coming to the end of my tether with it all. I will explain everything below. If anyone has some advice or is currently going through something similar, I would love to hear from you.

Okay, where to start. Since secondary school, I have been having nausea most days. Now, I call it nausea because that's the best way I can explain it. My symptoms are hard to explain and I always get looked at like an alien when I try to explain it. It's like gas escaping from my stomach without me burping. It is really uncomfortable and gets worse throughout the day. When it was at it's peak, i was working in crawley (about an hours drive from where I live) and when driving home, I would have to keep pulling over to be sick out of the car (gross. Sorry). If it gets really bad I will have stomach pains and sometimes even dizziness

My doctors for a long time insisted that it was indigestion. So I have been on omeprazole, lansoprazole and Ranitidine. Recently, I have been taken off those medications as I stopped taking them for a while and didn't feel any different.

I used to be on anti-depressants which I am completely off now (something that I am quite proud of doing). I was told that increasing my dosage may help but I have tried this and it didn't work.

About a year ago, I had a endoscopy done and they found a hiatus hernia. I was told that they don't do surgery for this anymore because in most cases medication deals with all the symptoms.

I am so tired of feeling like this everyday and it really is effecting my mood. Every time I go out, I know that I will end up feeling ill. I can no longer work a full time job which has effected my income. I am about to turn 25 and I don't have the ability to save up money to move out of my parents house. It's effecting every aspect on my life and the doctors dont seem to care at all. Below is a list of things that I have tried for at least 3 weeks.

lansoprazole

omeprazole

Ranitidine

citalopram

Peppermint oil capsules

digestive enzymes

probiotic

prebiotic

ginger tablets

charcoal tablets

I am currently on a referral list to see a stomach specialist but because of covid it has been delayed. I can't see me getting to see a doctor in the near future. The frustrating part is that if they referred me a couple of years ago when I first started asking to be referred, I would most likely would have missed this delay in hospital appointments.

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