please help me; Doctor is useless; - Acid Reflux / GERD Message Board

brunetti · 12-07-2006, 07:54 PM

Hello, this is going to be a long story...I hope you can help me
Since doctor doesnt help at all, I hope I can at least have asnwers that is closest to my symptoms from anyone that could help me and know what is possibly happening to me. I've been so confuse for a week and somtimes lead me to anxiety, because the symptoms somtimes makes me think I am pregnant or sometimes makes me think I have some kind of Acid reflux..But it seems worse than just acid reflux..Here are my symptoms...this starts happen 1 week ago..
1. I burp so much, and just keep burping till now for 1 week already...sometimes when I burp it comes out liquid..
2. I feel bloated, and I feel my stomach is bigger esp the upper ab..I guess that is because of the air inside, is that right? does this happen to anyone else?
3. I feel nausea mostly all the time, esp, after meals ( large or small, even drink water sometimes makes me nausea) this makes me no appetite to eat
4. I feel tired and sleepy
5. Started to get light headache
6. I feel pressure/ache on my back near the neck area
7. I feel a bit burning inside my stomach in the mid upper ab sometimes
8. My heart beats is not stable, somtimes faster
9. I feel tight sometimes ard the stomach below belly button
10. Somtimes I feel pressure also on my chest
11. and sometimes ard right waist stomach area, is that kidney?
Seems like i could random get pressure all over my body >.< its so scary
Sometimes I feel I am healthy. its like come and go..
12. somtimes noise from stomach
13. when anxiety comes, I feel the nausea even worse..
14. I use to go toilet regularly, but now not anymore..last time I went to toilet is about 3 days ago and its kind of minor diarrhea
I am only 24 and these all happens to me and to me it seems very serious >_< I have my period about 2 weeks ago and finished about 8-10 days ago which is a very heavy period..

Help me please >_< thank you

oldman21 · 12-07-2006, 09:07 PM

hi

I had simliar problems. But you will have to study yourself to determine what it could be. If you have lots of heartburn, you could have LOW stomach acid, or acid reflux. Its almost the same symptoms. I had terrible heartburn and very bad stools, almost exactly as you desribe.

Do you get worse heartburn with fatty meals? If so, I would try to test for low stomach acid, 30% of us have low acid. However, you are young and you might just need probiotics. If you have taken any antibotics lately, it will really screwup your intestines. Probiotics helps this quickly.

My solution was a supplament called Metagest by Metagenics. It works great, and I am sure there are others. The basic ingredients are Betain-HCL and Pepin. HCL is is an acid that helps digest and Pepsin is an enzyme that breaks down animal protein. Since the doctor can't figure anything out (big surprise) then you have to study your own digestive system.

here is what I do daily now:
1 tablet of Metagest with each meal
2 tablets of Digestive Enzymes (Metagenics Spectrazyme to be exact) with each meal.
2 capsules of Probiotics (Metagenics Probiotics) daily.

The spectrazyme and Probiotics will help anybody's indigestion. However the Metagest might upset your stomach, if it does than take rolaids to fix that. My wife does not have low stomach acid but she still takes Metagest with a big meal because it really helps her digest it. If you have heartburn, you can try a shot of lemon juice to see if reduces the heartburn.

Low stomach acid will cause all kinds of problems. Search for more info all over the net. Hope this helps, mine is just an example.

brunetti · 12-07-2006, 09:58 PM

thank you so much for the reply, really appreciate it

I've been doing a lot of study through the net, figuring out what is wrong with me since the doctor doesnt help at all and I am so confuse if I should visit another doctor or going hospital, but I dont want to spend money just to heard the advice 'take gaviscom' or 'give it a few days it will recover by itself' which usually i heard from the doctor.

I do take gaviscom after meals, it makes my nausea a bit better since usually after meal I feel worse...and Yes, Fatty meals makes my nausea worse...since then I have cut down fatty meal. I used to eat a lot of spicy food, but I've cut it down totally.

I am not sure how worse my heartburn is after meal because I never had fatty food anymore. But still heartburn comes and goes, sometimes often sometimes not. I can get heartburn whether empty stomach or after eating, sometimes when sleeping, or when wake up..it can happen to me anytime, especially when I get anxious...

I did not take antibiotics. And I would like to know the medicine you mentioned before, do I need prescription for it? or I can get it anytime in pharmacy?

And I would like the advice, about acid reflux or low stomach acid...how do I differ which one I am suffering from?
e.g if I take a shot of lemon juice and it ease heartburn and nausea, does it more likely that I have low stomach acid?

thank you

chikkie14 · 12-07-2006, 10:23 PM

Hi brunetti

You discribed my symptoms quite well! In short all you said is exactly the same as mine. You should see a doc to confirm weather u really are having GERD or what... although all of the synptoms u said is exactly that of GERD it is stil better to be sure.. and so the doc can give you the right meds.. ive had endpcsopy done and took all medicatins.. but nothing seem to work.. as is so typical of GERD.. my symptoms are just come and go... today i feel fine but it really gives no sign on when ti will attack again.. im off to see my GI later.. i'll keep you posted if I found something helful.. ,meanwhile try to relax, anxiety makes it worse.. drink ginger tea it helps alot esp in nausea. just boil a large chunk of crushed ginger with a cup of water and add brown sugar.. that also relieves bloating.

good luck to us

chikkie

brunetti · 12-07-2006, 10:32 PM

I did worry if I have gerd too.
I am still consider about visiting doctor..maybe a specialist if it doesnt get any better in a few days...
and ginger does make me feel better

Thanks for your post chikkie!
I'll be waiting for your next post