Whats up with my stomach?

[cj0505]

Whats up guys... 25 year old here, just thought I'd ask about my stomach condition, and see if anyone else had this or has an idea.. Well here's the story..

I drank some "bad" water at work, about 2 years ago, I mean, the water was sitting out for almost 2 weeks and no one told me. Well I drank some and after a few weeks I began to get bad stomach cramps, and diarrhea. No nausea, vomiting, or weight loss.I went to my doctor and he said it was probably a parasite and to get tested, but the symptoms went away so I never did the stool sample.

Well about 3 months later the stomach pains started coming back, with some diarrhea. No weight loss or vomiting, and my appetite was fine. I went back to the doctor and he said it was probably Acid Reflux, and which I took Aciphex.. I only took it for about 3 days, it wasn't working.

After that, the pains were off and on throughout 2005, and through early 2006, but not very bad. Just some days the pain was there, other days not. Sometimes it's in the upper part of my stomach, sometimes the middle, and sometimes the lower.

I went to a different doctor this past summer and I told him I thought it was a parasite but he said it probably wasn't. He sent me to get an H Pylori blood test done, which was negative. He also sent me to have an Upper GI test done, which didn't show severe acid reflux or any other abnormalties. I called the doctor back and she said if the pain persisted call them back.

Well, it's still off and on, but it's just the cramps and diarrhea. NO weight loss, no loss of appetite, no vomiting, or anything like that. The pains are typically in the early morning, with diarrhea. Usually after I eat something heavy before going to bed. But it's not been like this before, just until the stomach cramps appeared in 2004.

So I was just wondering, could it be that I have a parasite still, or could it be something else?

[NancyBoy]

My stomach is pretty messed up as well, there are days when the pain is phenomenal in the sense that I'm surprised I can still stand it's that bad. I remember one day in work I eat 2 grapes from the fridge and in the same minute my stomach was in serious agony and I immediately needed the toilet for a crap.

Then I drank a lot of coke before going to work, my stomach was fine but the instant I got inside the place my stomach died, I spent the next 30-40 minutes doing the toilet around 4-5 times, it was just brown water but the smell was vile.

It happens to me occasionally, aka I seem to eat something and it murders me for 2 days, one day I was in that much agony I didn't eat or drink a single thing, just about every day I have stomach pains, sometimes it's very severe and it gets cramped while sometimes it's just a feeling like something is eating away inside me, but when I get diarrhea it's pretty excessive for the first 20 minutes, I can't move off the pan!

Also what does it mean when your stomach turns into a brick? hard to explain but normally it's pretty soft and you can poke it and get far, but when I am in this pain it's rock solid.

Not sure if it's related but I guess it's something we have eaten which has triggered something and whenever we eat something else it sets it off again, at least that’s what it feels like with me, but the pain is unreal, maybe I should visit a doctor.

[dustoffkid]

Sounds to me a lot like a food sensitivity.

I get like that when I eat milk or eggs. Every time.

As for a rigid stomach, that's not good and should be seen by a doctor.