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Stomach problems since I took antibiotics 2 years ago

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prmark
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I'm 36 and Ive had stomach problems for the past few years, it all started after I took some antibiotics in 2019. I mainly have a swelling on the right side of my stomach which I believe is the intestine, sometimes the swelling is more sometimes less but its always there, when pressed / massaged often ends up in passing wind.

I have been to the doctors a few times about it and had two ultrasounds with no concerns, however it is ongoing and seems to get no better and is especially worse in the morning with alot of stomach churning and feeling very fatigued and a bit nausea, it takes me a while to shake it off in the morning.

I stopped drinking milk with breakfast and switched to kefir as a test around 6 months ago, nothing has changed apart from I’m having much less diarrhoea than I was previously so I stuck to that. I have also tried probio7 tablets for a few months previous to that but it seemed they had no effect at all, I even ended up trying the ultra version of it. I'm not sure what else to do, any suggestions welcome.

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  • sam18386
    sam18386 prmark

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    hi prmark, are you sure it's nothing? whatever your doctors say it sounds like something, otherwise you wouldn't feel it? i think you are not entirely well. something is causing the pain. milk. you say you've stopped it and that has helped, are you sure you not lactose intolerant? that wouldn't make you feel good. ask for a lactose test and tell your doctor what you've said on here.

    • prmark
      prmark sam18386

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      I went to the doctor 4 times about it, it's been examined by different doctors and they didn't think anything of it, every time they said they couldn't really feel anything and just said because I'm thin that's the reason I feel it, but but they did arrange two ultrasounds over the last year as I was worried about it. I also had a stool test and blood test and everything was said to be normal.

      The only thing milk stopped was I wasn't having diarrhoea as frequent, but I still have all the other problems.

  • sasical72
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    Hi prmark,

    Depending on where your pain is located it could be the ileocecal valve. I had pain in my right side, in my low abdominal area for months, day and night, had tests, all ok. I worked at an osteopath, he said it was my ileocecal valve, he did some (very painful) manipulation once and the pain went.

    I also suggested that to someone on here and he got back to me to thank me because his pain went, so you could look into that.

    Have a look on YouTube for ileocecal valve massage or even better if you can see an osteopath.

    Good luck!

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