My stupid mouth...and fever! HELP!! - Digestive Disorders Message Board

krisdance83 · 09-19-2004, 07:48 PM

This is getting absolutely ridiculous. 5 months of feeling VERY ill every single day without much relief.

My MOUTH is driving me the most crazy. I have this constant feeling of pressure and sensitivity at the back of my tongue and the front of my throat. Almost like it is expanding in order to vomit! It feels like I could gag or throw up almost all of the time although I haven't at all during this whole illness. My mouth also gets extremely watery from time to time and I have to constantly swallow. Has anyone had this feeling before related to their GI problems? If so, what did you have and what did you do about it?

Also, on days when I'm really feeling ill I end up with a fever of about 100. I know it's low grade but isn't that still a sign of infection? I was tested for Hpylori and it came back negative so is their any other infection that I could have in my intestines that could give me this fever? The fever has been on and off for months and my physical exam was fine so she said I'm not sick in any other way.

I won't get into detail about my other symptoms yet AGAIN but I will list them in case they help anyone to determine what the mouth thing and the fever might be:
Started with fullness and nausea at night even if I went to bed 5 hours after eating.
I have a soreness right under my ribs directly in the middle of my body and also a lump there that gets bigger when I eat.
In that same spot is where I am CONSTANTLY nauseous. My stomach is always upset and queasy but more after eating.
I always feel bubble moving around from my stomach to my abdomen. Even when I first wake up, but it doesn't usually make me pass gas so I don't know if it's gas or not.
I also have an inner ear condition but I doubt it's related to my GI problems, and I have a very high anxiety level.

Sometimes the mouth feeling gets so bad that I feel like I could throw up at any moment and I begin to panic because I am very phobic of vomitting. I've taken Ativan when it's gotten bad and that calms me right down and makes me feel 100% better. It's weird because it happens even when my stomach feels ok and doesn't necessarily happen when my stomach feels horrible. I've been told that Ativan is also used for nausea so I don't know if it's actually helping my GI symptoms or if it's calming me down which in turn makes me feel better. Probably a combination of both. But it makes me thing that this mouth thing is more related to my anxiety but that doesn't make sense to me because it is CONSTANT, even when I'm relaxed and under no stress at all. It is actually the sick feeling that MAKES me anxious in the first place so I don't see how it could be CAUSED by the anxiety.

Besides, with all of these other GI symptoms it makes me think that the strange feeling is a part of that. But has anyone ever had a similar feeling?

I've been taking Magnesium for my GI problems and it hasn't helped (yet).

ANY information at all would be greatly appreciated. I've posted about this before but I wanted to add in the fever question and a few more details about my mouth. You can see how this would be the WORST symptom for me because I am SO extremely phobic of vomitting and my mouth constantly feels like I'm ready to vomit! I even wake up in the middle of the night to horrible symptoms! Please help! I just want to cry all day and my quality of life is getting so bad.

antoinettev3 · 09-21-2004, 03:39 PM

Let me start out by saying that I'm vomit phobic like you and I can relate to how you're feeling.

The increased saliva can be a symtom of reflux. What sort of tests have you had done? Upper G-I? Endoscopy?

What drugs are you currently taking besides the ativan?

I also find some relief from taking Xanax which makes me wonder if it's stress/anxiety that's causing the problem or at the very least aggravating it.

I run a low grade fever too which causes me to feel even worse. So far nothing has turned up on my tests either. I'm going in for an upper g-i tomorrow morning to rule out ulcers or gastritis.

I will wake up from a sound sleep feeling like I'm gagging or about to throw up which freaks me out. It use to only happen the week of my period but now it happens whenever. I've found some relief from OTC acid reducers, especially Prilosec.

My doctor had suggested that the low grade fever and accompanying muscle aches might be caused by a flare up of an Epstein Barr Virus even though I tested negative for it the last time I had these symptoms.

I'm sorry I don't really have any answers for you but I just wanted you to know that you're not alone.

Antoinette

krisdance83 · 09-28-2004, 09:30 PM

Does anyone else get this feeling?

It is becoming even more CONSTANT. It helps me if I chew a strong mint gum and if I don't have the gum I go into a panic!! I am starting to think it is all anxiety and that I'm going crazy! Could the mouth thing be related to my stomach problems?

leelee04 · 09-28-2004, 11:50 PM

Have you talked to a doctor about your anxiety. I really do think an anxiety med would help you.
leelee

Stessy · 09-29-2004, 08:41 AM

I've had the intermittent low fever for several years. My doc and I tried to find a cause, didn't come up with one. She finally described it as (I think - it's been a while) cardio-vascular instability. Which means, apparently, that my viens and arteries dilate and undilate all by themselves for no apparent reason. The only thing that she could think to prescribe was Beta Blockers. Which did help. However, they made me verrrry depressed, so I stopped. However, I have recently been diagnosed Bi-Polar so maybe they wouldn't have that effect on you. I don't know if they would help with the nausea or not. I'm currently nauseaus, but we haven't come up with a cause for that either.