everytime I eat something I become sick almost within an hour. the left side of my body starts to make this bubbly sound and then I start cramping and then I'm in the bathroom for a least on whole night. I live on peptobismo and maylax. Nothing seems to help and it gets so bad sometimes it makes me sweat and almost cry. I don't know how else to get an idea of where to start or what doctor to see.
Please help me figure out where to start.
2006-09-24 15:19:19 · 14 answers · asked by GENNIFER B 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Sorry you're going through such a hard time. It does sound like your gastrointestinal system is definitely involved, but I agree with others that seeing a specialist in internal medicine and being given the appropriate tests is the way to get the answers that you need. There could be other factors (food sensitivities, infection, specific conditions of the stomach, intestine and related organs/tissues, stress reactions, to name a few) that are causing your problems alone or in combination. Reading some of the possibilities listed by respondents to your question is liable to cause you greater anxiety, not less, and at most, we're offering you our best guesses. Nothing to base a course of (self) treatment on.
Do seek a doctor's attention soon, through your GP or family doctor first, probably, so that you can get a referral to a specialist. You must get those investigations done soon as you likely risk dehydration and loss of essential nutrients if you are constantly losing fluids this way. Although they help relieve immediate symptoms, products like Maalox and Pepto Bismol can also mask the very problems that you're trying to treat. When it comes time for your doctor to examine you, make sure you specify how long you've been having these problems, the "sequence of events," if you will, what you've been taking to treat them, specific foods that seem to be triggers, and what you are able to eat comfortably, if anything. If you find that things are better at some times and worse at others, that's important information to share with your doctor as well. Maybe start tracking these things in a notebook from now until you're seen so that you have something to refer to. In the meantime, try to stay hydrated, get as much rest and minimize stressors as much as you can, and push to be seen by a doctor sooner than later. Wishing you well!
2006-09-24 16:17:10 · answer #1 · answered by semper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get to the Dr. IMMEDIATELY and have them do an Ultra Sound and anything other test needed to find the problem with this . There's lots of things you have internally that WE don't know about or even think about that could be causing this, but you don't have to be in pain like this and suffer with this "everytime you eat" .. I'm sorry you are having these problems . Please find out what it is sooner rather than later . Good Luck . Please let all of us here know what they found . It will help if someone else would experience the same symptoms and ask the same question, then we'd be able to help give them an idea of what's wrong, but nothing is for SURE without a Dr. checking it out first and finding the problem . Each individual is different .
2006-10-02 08:15:02 · answer #2 · answered by Sun 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter has similar symptom with you.She has a stomach disorder since several years ago .She eat only stomach disoder medicines such promag. syroop.But if she is physically weak and so tired she suffered pain in her stomach and she has a headache too.She often cries for her illness.So she called for an internist specialist doctor.He instructed her to have an indoscopy.After she had it,her doctor knew that in her intestine there is a polip like a little tumor and her digestion has more acid than its normal.She has been given a medicine for making its tumor get smaller and a medicine to normalize her acid.Now she is better than before.
2006-09-24 15:41:41 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gall bladder, appendix, IBS (irratible bowel syndrome) Ulcers. It could be alot of different things, ask the Dr. and he/she will ask you questions and probably prescribe a medication or he may run some tests like an ultrasound or an upper GI. Good luck
2006-09-24 15:24:04 · answer #4 · answered by Jaded 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like you, I have a weak stomache or gastric issues. wrong food on my stomach can caused this, or stress or viral as well. When u have this gastric attacks, do not take uncooked food, spicy and oily food, citrus as well. Anything that is too much for your stomache to take will caused all this cramping. I suggest you to see ur GP, tell him about this attacks and he may refer you to do a scope to make sure that all is well.
2006-09-24 15:25:11 · answer #5 · answered by crow_nanc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a spastic colon. You need to bulk up your diet with more fiber. Avoid greasy foods and alcohol. It may take several weeks for your bowels to return to normal.
2006-10-02 13:34:26 · answer #6 · answered by DR_NC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stomach ulcer
2006-09-24 15:22:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
See your Doctor. He will make dietary recommendations, possible meds. Sorry you are suffering with this.
2006-09-24 15:26:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call the Nurse on line. The # is in the phone book.
They can tell you what Dr. to see/
2006-10-02 14:23:53 · answer #9 · answered by Maggie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perhaps crones not sure of the spelling talk to A doctor
2006-09-24 15:29:46 · answer #10 · answered by duke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋