Random human health question

Sorry ;) I was on call yesterday. It sounds a little like gastritis or an ulcer from the way you describe it. Everyone's thoughts about H. Pylori and the question about if it feels better after eating are really great. I would recommend starting zantac 150mg orally twice a day for three weeks and see if it gets better. It's easy, over the counter (that is the prescription dose, the OTC dose is 75 mg so just take two). If it doesn't get better, I think I would do one of two things depending on if you have insurance. If you didn't, I'd probably just treat you for H. Pylori (cause it's inexpensive and the tests to prove H. Pylori are expensive=try to not put you in debt), if you did I'd probably get a H. pylori clo test and maybe even endoscopy. Of course it may be something else so a good physical and extensive history would be first! H. Pylori doesn't cause eye ulcers ;) Try to be really good at keeping the symptom journal to see what makes it better or worse. I've had patients with biliary disease come in with simmilar complaints. Hopefully it will resolve soon!

stardog85

 Since this is the board I'm on with the most traffic I thought I'd ask something that's been bugging me for a little while.  In the last month I've been feeling kinda sick to my stomach fairly frequently.  I initially thought it was the flu so i took some homeopathics and it seemed to moderate for a bit, but now it's more consistent.  Especially when I'm hungry my stomach gets upset/crampy/gassy and I just feel "ick" in general.  I've always had a sensitive tummy but this doesn't appear to be related to food.  It's not a constant thing, just several times during the day now.

Any thoughts?  I've considered going into the doctors, but I don't have a regular physician here and I don't think it's a urgent care kind of thing, it's just annoying.  I'm going to have to find a gynecologist soon anyway so perhaps I can mention something at that appointment since they can at least give me an idea of who I should talk to.
 

 

Sounds like my morning sickness (dont mean to scare you sorry).  Morning sickness is just due to blood sugar levels, which is why eating little and often helps.  It's why its called "morning" sickness, because usually you havent eaten all night so you feel icky in the morning, but I didnt get it in the morning.  I just got it on and off throughout the day.  If it s related to your blood sugar, then eating little and often will help.  Also, hard dry biscuits when you already feel nauseous should help the "ick" feeling go away.  I would definitely see a doc

LOL, pregnancy always has to be ruled out hee hee.

Dang I hope I'm not pregnant - I became "active" in that sense only about 2 months ago and we've been very careful (plus he's been 600 miles away for the majority of the past several months).  Guess I should be sure to rule it out tho....

I'm feeling pretty good today which is nice.  And I'm so lucky to have so many helpful people accessible!
 

Ottoluv - I'll try your idea, but if it doesn't seem to do much, I'll be sure to see a doc.  I have insurance thankfully, but my deductible is super high so I try to be conservative.
 

I didn't want to scare you either, and figured that is all that is on my mind right now LOL, but that is pretty much how I feel these days.  I am ravenously hungry and if I let my stomach get too empty, I feel sick.  Even after I eat I still feel hungry.  I suspect though that if you just recently went on BC, it is being caused by the change in hormones.  I also felt like this a lot when I went off BC.  I had it for months.  I also sometimes felt that way when I was at certain points in my cycle.  I really think it is probably just your body adjusting to the changes in hormones from the BC but I would definately rule out pregnancy.

I've been on BC (same pill) for several years due to suspected endometriosis, so I doubt it's a change in hormones issue; that being said, i just started my period early today (5 days of pills left before I should've started).  I've got the name of a gynecologist so given this turn of events I may head there first.

Finding a vet and deciding when to take a dog in is so much easier than finding a doctor and deciding when you should take yourself in lol!

 

 

Stardogs-

I honestly don’t think it is hormone and/ or pregnancy related.  I know I posted this the other day on this very thread, but I will say it again… your symptoms are almost identical to what I go through and for me, it is all about stomach acid. Again, they originally suspected an ulcer with me and never found one but I am at higher risk for them so I have to be careful of certain things.

 

When mine is acting up, it is almost always when I am hungry.  I feel like I need to pass gas, I feel bloated and also sorta sick to my stomach like I need to vomit all at the same time.  I have a general ‘ick” feeling that I just can’t get over, but if I eat a little it lessens some.  Then when my stomach is empty, it is back again.

 

Mine is very cyclical in nature, so again I may go 8-12 months with no symptoms and then they start up all of a sudden.  My gastro doc has given me the following regimen: 

 

When it is just starting and I can’t handle the discomfort, I am to take a pepsid or zantac (I find for me personally that pepsid is more effective).  This will be enough to keep it at bay fro a few weeks then it will get worse so I am to go up to 2 pepsids.  Then that helps for awhile but it gets worse so I take 3 weeks or so of Prilosec and then it is gone.  I won’t have any symptoms for many, many months and then all of a sudden it starts up again.  My doc told me that this is how it would be my whole life and I will be damned if he wasn’t 100% accurate on the cyclical nature of it.

 

I am not saying this is the regimen you should use, and I still hold with my original thought of seeing a doc, but it “might” be that this is your problem and it could be that you do indeed have an ulcer. Anyway, I don’t recommend long term us of pepsid and similar acid blockers as they are coming out with more and more studies about why the long term use may not be good and may permanently affect your own body creating acid, but I would suggest at least till you get in to see a doc, that you try an acid blocker and see if it helps.  Then you have more info to tell the doc when you go in.

 

Good luck!

 

You might want to try some slippery elm.

http://eatmoreherbs.com/zine/14_slippery_elm.html

Ok not preggers for sure. Yay!  Annnd I haven't had much trouble for the last two days.  If it comes back I'm going to go to the doctor, but for now I think I'll just keep an eye on it and mention it when I see my new gynecologist to see what they think about the potential hormone relation.

Thanks for all the thoughts/input/ideas everyone!! :D