The "pains of hell" as my mom would often say
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So hear goes my story. About out of ideas. Maybe someone has had the same thing and can offer a solution. Let me add that I was always the kind of person who could eat anything. Nothing every bothered me for 50+ years.
About two years ago I had a breakfast sandwich at MickyD's. Steak, egg and cheeze on a bagle. Did this every Friday for years. No problem. This time felt funny after finishing. Went to my office and still felt mild stomach discomfort. Got worse and had to lie on the floor. Felt like I was going to pass out so I went home. Eneded up lying on the floor on myu side in the bathroom trying to vomit... but could not. All I'd get were dry these wrething dry heaves. This lasted for several hours tillI fell asleep on the tile floor. When I woke up is was fine.
Thought little of it. Next Friday same meal and same exact thing happend. Had to go home and again on the floor in the bathroom for hours.
Other than that I had no issues. Ahything I ate at home was fine. Actually wrote an email to MickyD's telling them there was something wrong with their meat!
Then it happened again at a Wendy's (had a chicken sanwdich and cup of chili) an hour from home. Had to drive back to the house with the most severe pain in my gut you can imagine. How I did it I do not know.
Again, never an issue at home. Spicey food, barbeque potatoe chips, bloody mary's, all kinds of cheeze and dips... bring it on.
This is over a period of years. Every once in a while it woulfd happen and always away from home. Turkey dinner at a restaurant and one a year later at my couzins house did it. Had to. The final straw was from an omlet with home fries at a diner one night. Spent from 10pm till 6am between the motel bathroom and the bad. THat was it. Went to the doc. Here is what has been done so far:
Ultrasound of gall bladder- negative
Two blood tests- 1st one high pancreas levels, 2nd a month later normal levels
MRI scan- normal for everything but enlarged prostate : (
Upper GI w/biopsy- "erythematous mucosa in the antrum" they said tyrned out to be "reflux"
I just cannot believe this is all this is. This pain is nothing like I have ever felt in my life. I'm doubled up on the floor completely incapacited for hours on end because I ate a piece of turkey and this is just reflux?
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jay68400 george74517
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george74517
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The C word was second on my mind after stomach ulcers. My dad had them for years. Said my sister and I gave them to him : )
Seems if it was cancer it would be more constant. Not once every two months.
How did they diagnose you and who (waht kind of doc) finally gave you some answers? BTW: It would seem to me a good blood test screening would show ones values were skewed if it was cancer, yes?
lilian05079 george74517
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When all tests come back negative I suggest to people to get checked for HPylori a bacteria that lives in the stomach and duodenum and causes bad pain and reflux. It is treated with antibiotics. It is usually tested via endoscopy, breath test and stool test or blood test but a blood test is not always reliable for HP....ask your doc for one of the tests endoscopy is the usual test......best wishes for a speedy diagnosis.....
george74517 lilian05079
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At any rate I assume (maybe wrongly) this lame GI doc did that with the biopsy workup done last week. I do not know that for sure since she has not called me back. I will persue this, though.
lilian05079 george74517
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Yes it a test for stomach ulcers but by the time ulcers are diagnosed HPylori has been in the stomach and duodenum for some time undetected...hence ulcerated stomach...
george74517 lilian05079
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I asked her if they tested for HPylori from my endoscopy biopsy samples and she said "yes" and it was negative for HP. She again reiterated "reflux not Berrets" was what they found.
She also said I can try calling the doc next Wednesday between 3 and 5 and maybe she can speak with me then.
jay68400 george74517
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dolores07100 george74517
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dolores07100 george74517
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george74517 dolores07100
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Really want to read the rest of this reply?
I just cannot accept that is the answer. Not after spending close to 5K for docs and tests with nothing to show for it.
npolite george74517
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george74517
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This all began when I swore off sugar two years ago and switched to using Splenda (sucralose) in my coffe twice a day. This was before I knew how bad it was for you. Read somewhere the chemical formula for Splenda is closer to rat poisen than sugar.
Anyway these pains from eating certain foods all semed to crop up at the exact same time and I wonder, now, if there is a connection. That perhaps this product did some damage to my stomach lining and now I have this intolerance to, apparently, fatty foods.
Anyone care to weigh in?
dolores07100 george74517
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george74517 dolores07100
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I'm not really in a position to go "outside the box" right now. Will have to explore other avenues. This forum being one of them.
george74517
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Are you folks up on the current treatments for peptic ulcers? It involves a three-pronged approach using an acid pump inhibitor, bismuth subsalicylate and an antibiotic.
Prilosec for the acid pump inhibitor to allow the antibiotic to do it's job, Pepto Bismol for the bismuth solution and Flagyl (metronidazole) for the antibiotic. The only one that requires a script is the Flagyl but since it is both a human and canine stomach med I have plenty of it for my dog.
Two weeks and it either will work or will not. I feel it's worth a shot. Not getting anywhere using the trditional routes.
BTW: I know this forum is hosted in the UK so maybe some of you are aware of a more concentrated bismuth product made in the Neatherlands that is used for stomach ailments. Apparnelty they swear by it. Not sold in the US but can be ordered from there.
..and please no lectures on buying meds from other countries. Been doing it for years for my asthma and nasal alergy medication and saving thousands of $$ and I'm still here. Never had a doc give me a hard time faxing scripts to Canada.