Hi There!
Just wanted to say you sound alot like me...I have had alot of the same symptoms you have been haveing right along with the weight loss. Loseing weight is a good thing for me. Except when it's falling off of me because Im so sick. Gets to be scarry. I have had all the blood work ups also and nothing was found. I have had a stress test for my heart because of all the chest arm and neck pain. My heart shows no sign of heart disease whats so ever they tell me. ( and I worked that tread machine hard because I figured as long as Im here I better do it right) ANyway most importantly I wanted to tell you that I had a barium swollow the 2nd of this month. I too was petrified
I can't even drink water and Im expected to drink the eqivelent of 3 glasses of soupy cement?I asked for the endoscopy but was told he first wanted to do the barium to see how everything is working. The endoscopy will show whats in here but not how it works. The x-ray takes pictures of you swollowing and it traveling down your esophagus and into your stomch. Than into your small bowel. The barium coats your esophagus and stomch lining. It will show any tumors, ulcers narrowing of the esophagus ect. Im sure Im missing many more things it tells. Anyway I have to say I cried all the way to the clinic. They told me to plan for 2 hours. The nurses that were helping with the test said 2 hours for sure. Sometimes it can takes as long as 4 to 6 depending on how fast the barium moves through your small bowel. If you are having the small bowel follow thru. I drank the first glass(cried) and thought I was going to throw up. I finished half of the second glass and had to go to the bathroom as it was already going through me. Which confirmed the IBS diagnosis they said.I was in pain by this point in my chest throat ect. I finshed the third glass and was out of there in less than an hour! I was in pain, thought I would vomit, spent the whole day in extreme pain all through my stomch, chest, arms, throat ect. ect. But by the next day I was feeling better. All worth it I asked myself? Yes cause before the test I worried about cancer, gastritus, ulcers all sorts of bad things. My results said I had a small sliding hietal hernia. Everything else looked very good. Food is passing through just the way it is spose to. No narrowing of my esophagus ect. JUST Knowing these results so far has made my symptoms better. Although,Im still having some of the same problems so it is now on to the endoscopy. They are also going to place a small capsule in my esophagus to monitore my ph levels. It will let them know the amout of acid that goes up into my esophagus. Im glad I did it cause I was thinking there was something wong with how I swollowed food. Or how it went into my stomach and into my bowels. Im just very releived that it is all working correctly. I know there is something wrong still, and hopefully the endoscopy will tell me what. But I know it's not cancer. Which was my worst fear.
So hang in there!!!!!!!! You CAN do it!!!!!!!!!! Takes coarage but getting the results back weather they find something or not can only help you be on your way to feeling better. Either by finding the right meds or having an endoscopy ect.... Hope this helps you some...
Good luck and take care!!!!!!!
Laura
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