| Constant nausea ... in need of help
This is going to be fairly long. I'm sorry in advance. This all started on February 26th of this year, so 23 days and counting. On the 26th, at night, I started feeling incredibly nauseated. I spent the entire night in the bathroom. I did not throw up. Throughout this whole ordeal, I have not actually thrown up. The next day, I started to have black stools. The nausea at night lasted for about a week, and all of a sudden, the nausea began happening during the day as well. After this, I called my primary doc and he told me it was the flu and prescribed Zofran for the nausea. The zofran didn't touch the nausea at all. For another week, I suffered until I finally went to see my nurse practitioner. By this time, I had lost 12 pounds. She did not do any tests but told me that my symptoms sound like a gastric ulcer. She prescribed Nexium, 20 mg a day and Reglan for the nausea. Reglan also does nothing for the nausea.
I started the Nexium on March 7th, so I have been taking it for almost two weeks. I no longer have intense nausea during the day and at night, but I do have vague and lingering nausea throughout the day. Sometimes the nausea becomes full blown and other times it comes for a while and passes. But still, I am vaguely nauseated 24/7. I no longer have black stools. I have been on Nexium for almost two weeks and I'm not sure if it's working or not. I feel better than I did two weeks ago, but I still do not feel remotely close to "good" or "normal". I have not had any tests. Nothing for H. Pylori. No endoscopy. All I'm taking is Nexium once a day.
What do I do next? I want the nausea to go away. I am so tired of this. Please help.
List of symptoms:
Nausea (persistent)
Occasional gnawing pain in stomach
Burping/hiccuping after eating
Full feeling in stomach
Last edited by kbo29; 03-19-2016 at 06:23 PM.
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