Im sure a lot of you are familar with me since I have been here since like July or something. Recently however, through October, November, and 1st parts of Dec. I was able to control my diet and had hardly no episodes of my nausea problems. On Dec. 17 I had an edoscopy done that revealed inflammation in esophogus and stomach revealing GERD and Acid Reflux. Ever since then I have had nothing but problems. Maybe one or two days of feing semi-ok. Especially lately, it is pretty bad at night time, maybe because of the anticipation of having to go to bed. For some reason, days are not nearly as bad as nights. The nausea can get really bad at night and tonight i have had some short stabbing pains all over my stomach. i am not eating very well at all and now have dropped from a near 110lbs last year to a nearly just 100lbs. This cannot be very healthy for a 17yr old teenager who is supposed to be enjoying her teenage years and final year of hs, not worrying about when I am going to get sick, or if I can eat out Sunday with my friends, or making sure I am eating something healthy or getting up in time in the morning cause i had been up till 3AM. As many can tell i am starting to feel really sorry for myself http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/frown.gif. Any suggestions on how ot feel better would be great. I have tried, excerising, Axid(Nizatidine), Calcium, Acidophillus, and B COmplex vitamins, cutting out dairy, caffeine, ect.
~Shanny

Try SAM-E, it wont help your stomach, but it is a great all natural anti-Depresant. Available everywhere, eveny safeway. And it works. I too have had massive digestive troubles. My Dr. prescribes Prozac to help relieve the anxiety. I choose a natural way instead and refused to take the Prozac.
Making the minid feel better does help overall. Try it.

I found a product called Digestive Support at [removed] it contails all natural ingredients like slippery elm, ginger, marshmallow root, etc. It has helped my stomach greatly. I just orderd 2 more bottles of it. It is the closest thing to a miracle cure I have found.

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How long have you used this? when did you start to feel better?

Started using Digestive support Last Friday. 2 days later felt much better. Today its almost a week and feeel better each day. It really works, at least for me it does.

Farscape- I will begin looking for digestive support and tell my mom about it. It sounds great and i am so willing to give anything a try. Ginger is about the only thing that has kept me from being really really sick all the time, it really helped me last night.

Thanks for the info on the depressent thingy, i dont want to be on prescription pills for that eitherso i will check into it to!
~SHanny

Ginger is one of its ingredients. Feel free to email me, I can point you to it.

Shanny, are you doing better? so far there are 3 of us that have had more problems after endo. Guess we will have to start our own club. Mine was in late Oct., the other in early Dec. What does your Dr. say cause mine says it can't be. No reason but I know it is real.Let us know if that digestive stuff works. Because I have allergies to weeds, etc. I hate to try herbal stuff. Like everyone said drink chamomile tea and then I found out it was in the Ragweed family which is my primairy allergy. I just recently started with the naseua, but had the heartburn starting about a week after endo. Wasn't even aware of it before that.

For those of you who are kept up at night ebcause of the reflux, try sleeping propped up with 3 or 4 pillows, so that you are almost sitting up. That has helped me because it keeps stuff from repeating on me when I lay down.

Shanny, I know how you feel. I was 15 when I started having all of my stomach problems. Fortunately I found a great doctor. He tried a bunch of different medicines with me (Prevacid, Axid, Pepcid, and maybe some others) and after about 6 months of trying medications, we still were not getting anywhere. So he told me that he was not going to keep pumping medicine into me without knowing exactly what the problem is. So he did an endoscopy on me and found out that I have acid reflux as well as gastritis, antritis, and duodenitis. He gave me something called Carafate (sucralfate) to take right before each meal, and at bedtime. It was wonderful because it is a very chalky pill that coats the stomach, digestive tract, etc... so that you are able to swallow food without the pain and reflux, and at the same time calms down the inflammation. I believe that he also gave me prilosec along with that. Within a few months I was able to eat again. I am now just on Aciphex. But I am having gallbladder problems now, which has caused ALL of my reflux, as well as my IBS to come back with avengance. And like you, I am FED UP! But there is help out there. Try not to get depressed.

You need to find a good GI doctor, if you don't already have one. There are a ton of other medications out there that you can try. Prilosec, Prevacid, Pepcid, Aciphex, Nexium, just to name a few... You may also have something like H-Pylorie, which can cause all of this and is diagnosed by taking a scraping during an endoscopy. That is treatable with anti-biotics. The only thing I can tell you is make sure that you stay away from all of the acidy foods, or things with caffeine in them. I am sure you already know this though. Don't eat any kind of citrus fruit or have any kind of citrus drink like orange juice, do not eat any tomatoes, nothing minty, no chocolate, no soda, nothing too greasy or fried. Just try to stick with bland foods that are easy to digest. I find that simple things like plain baked chicken cutlets (not fried or breaded) or rice/pasta/baked potatoes with a little bit of butter, broiled fish or chicken, jello, etc... sit pretty well with me. Eat several small meals instead of three larger ones. Some of the foods that I have also found to really irritate me when I have bad reflux are tuna fish and bananas. Bananas are great for binding you up when you have diahrrea, but can cause heartburn.

Good luck and I hope you find some relief. (at the moment I am also looking for relief!)

Hi Shanny,

I too have suffered with many of the symptoms you have described, with the majority of my episodes happening at night. I suffered for about 1yr and 1/2 and during that time, had every test known to man with all of them coming up negative. I finally got tired of them telling me they couldn't find anything, so I switched Dr's and found one that did a yeast test and found out my body was covered with it. He put me on anti-biodics and a special diet (no refined white flour or sugar) and within a couple of days I was feeling much better and now 3 weeks later, I feel like a new person. He also put me on a good bacteria type vitamin, because of being so sick, I had lost all of my good bacteria in my stomach. This may not be your situation, but it was worth a shot to at least mention it to you. A yeast overgrowth can make you very ill, with many of the symptoms you have described. I would check with your dr and see if he will do a yeast test on you. Alot of dr's won't do it as they don't believe in them. I was fortunate to find one. Good luck with everything and I hope you get to feeling better

shanny, i to am 17 and i started having problems with my stomach/intestines when i was 13, and they escalated to hospitalization at hershey hospital in PA from dehydration, malnutrition, a general inability to thrive, and an inability to eat from such severe nausea...i am 5'5" and i weighed 95 pounds, and i have a fairly muscular build, so i did not have a whole lot of fat to loose...right now i am still very slim, but got my muscle tone back, so i am back up to 125...i just posted in the end of april under "i'm new- i have a complicated digestive history- please read!!!", which describes ALL my problems, at length...if you read this, try reading that post, and see if my problems sound anything like yours...if so, start a new post on our similar probs and i can tell you what my GI docs have done to get to a point in my health where, although i still have problems, i atleast have the ability to thrive...lemme know!!

rach

It might be a good idea to have your gallbladder checked with a ultrasound and a hidascan. I started out with reflux which worsened and then got more stomach pain and lost weight and it turns out that I needed my gallbladder removed. I wasn't in the correct age range for glbld probs but it happened anyway.