anyone have these symptoms? Please Share - Digestive Disorders Message Board

Janice71 · 05-04-2007, 06:26 AM

Hello
for about 2 years now I have been suffering with digestive problems ... Pain on the left side of under my breast , heartburn, shortness of breath at times , food comming back up , drinks comming back up , nausa, vomiting , ect. ... Its hell.. but this past week something different happened! on monday the inside of my mouth my cheeks and back of my throat turned red didnt hurt or anything just red went to the dr. and I guess since that was my only symptom that day she said I was fine ... hmm!

so on Wensday I started to have yellow diarrhea ! YELLOW? so I called her back she wasnt in Couldnt sleep all week when I lay down it feels like right above my bellybutton and under my breast in the middle ... like the air is pushing up with a dull kinda hurt ... its not painful but I really cant explain it so I called the dr. yesterday and she called me in Diphenoxylate/Atropine Tabmyl for the diarrhea and Famotidine 20 mg ***** is pepcid I asked what this could be and I didnt get a stright answer... Im always left feeling im making things up my family thinks im sort of a hypercondratic...

anyway .. have any of you had this happen to ya? please let me know I would love to hear anyones story and know im not alone making this up thanks so much Janice

RetiredDirector · 05-04-2007, 01:34 PM

Janice...Your symptoms sound similar to what my wife had last year at this time. She was in the hospital four times in a two month period before they finally were able to diagnose it as Microscopic Colitis. What the doctor called in for you is the generic of Lomotil for diarrhea. They were giving that to my wife also, as she had diarrhea and was vomiting too. They had to send the sample to the University of Washington Med School Hospital to find out that it was the same as what the local lab said it was. She was in the hospital at the time, and they put her on IV Prednisone and the results were amazing. When she got out of the hospital she was on oral Prednisone for several weeks, then switched to Entocort for another couple months and then weened off. She's been back to work and doing great off all meds since last fall. Check into this, or at least mention it to your doctor. There are several types of Colitis.

Good luck, I hope you're feeling better soon.