Stomach issues… any advice please?
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this is going to be quite a long post. I am a 20-year-old female and for the past month or so at least my stomach has felt empty, not just when I wake up, but all day long and no matter how much I eat I feel like I’m full up and my stomach feels like it’s absolutely starving. So here’s some history, I’ve always suffered with reflux, indigestion, etc where I’ve had to have medication and so do my entire family so I thought it could be related to that but now I’m thinking maybe not and there’s also no history of stomach cancer or any type of cancer in my family and I also suffer with fissures chronically that have never healed that started 4/5years ago which I was put down to my bad diet and lack of hydration causing constipation and I can admit from the beginning I never really helped them and suffer with pain and bleeding chronically that I’ve been to the hospital about and I had a small camera that revealed nothing much other than the tears and recently I’ve also had bloods done that revealed I had low iron and my blood clotting came back borderline and I got this done because of bruises on my legs and I’ve also had a camera down my throat to view my larynx. Whether it’s relevant or not I also had a termination last year and fell pregnant again early this year which unfortunately ended in miscarriage at around 11 weeks in April but my body only just recovered in June. In May I developed a type of eating disorder due to fears in my relationship where I restricted myself When eating as I wanted to lose weight, which I did slightly at the time, as I found out my partner was going to Magaluf and my anxiety was through the roof. Then when he got there he cheated on me and was away for three weeks and also broke up with me in that time too and from the restricted eating went straight to no eating, losing more weight and a bad mental state. Although we only broke up over a month ago I did start to pull myself together and although I was still restricting my eating I was working out all the time (especially abs) and after I thought things were going to get better I’ve now got these horrible stomach symptoms where my stomach feels empty all the time and I occasionally feel a lump bulge out when it feels like my stomach is rumbling or when it’s empty and I have now convinced myself that I have stomach cancer and since I felt A lump pushing when my stomach felt really empty I’ve been pressing down my stomach ever since to the point where I’ve been bruising it. I understand that I am a massive hypochondriac but I can’t help but feel like this is something sinister because I wake up and my stomach feels completely empty and I feel no matter how much I eat although I may feel nauseous my stomach is still empty and I feel like there is a big bulge in my stomach and I’ve seen two doctors who are convinced they can’t feel a mass, however due to my distress with the symptoms they’ve sent off stool samples, additional blood tests and booked an ultrasound and the results should be coming back on Tuesday for the samples and bloods and I’m honestly petrified and wondered if these issues have been a buildup to something bad. I also have weight loss but I don’t know if that was because of my previous eating and things I’ve been through which ive caused and honestly my brain is a mess I’ve had to stop going to work and I can barely leave my room so any advice would be greatly appreciated in my time of worry
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