I am a 19 year old male in college and ever since around i turned 17 i have had an inability to eat normal-large size meals and deal with a variety of symptoms daily. I have seen plenty of doctors and have had many tests from an endoscopy, swallow study, an empyting scan, and a few others that i can't remember. These tests were done a little over a year ago and the only real information that i got out of my doctors so far is when they tested for reflux i had an 55/100, and 50 is normal and that food emptys out of my system quickly. I have been put of a variety of different acid reflux pills including prilosec, protonix, and im currenty on zantac. They have also put me tried other anti-nausea and IBS pills on me but none of them have seemed to help at all.
Everyday i experience a mild amount of gas, a tightness in my chest particuarly after swallowing food or drink that i have to try to relieve by making myself burp to only have it come back. If i eat any decent sized meal i feel very nauseous as im trying to finish the food and a lot of the time don't finish it and i end up throwing up 1 couple times a month due to this feeling. Also at various times of day and depending how recently i have eaten i get a bad taste in my mouth and sometimes when i swallow foods it feels very uncomfortable going down my throat. Since this problem has started i have developed some anxiety with eating and being invited to go out to eat places for fear of getting sick and having to throw up in a public place. Also, there have a been a couple occasions where i have tried swallowing a larger pill that has caused me to gag and eventually throw up and near when this first started i used to smoke weed(i havent for a year), and as i inhaled it caused me to throw up. Over the past two years my weight has flucuated from 140-155, and it is about 140 right as i have felt particularly worse the past week and lost about 5 pounds.
I am seeing a new gastro doctor in a few days but i am pretty sick and tired of feeling this way and its hard to want to go out with friends for dinner and enjoy my life feeling this way constantly
So iv been just scrolling threw this site and reading what everyone is going threw and i hate that there's other people going through this but it gives me relief I'm not alone.....I'm a 19 year old male also iv been dealing with chronic inner chest problems for about a year, when I eat it feels like my food get stuck in my chest right after I swallow, iv learned the trick too wash it down with water, I hate pop but not because of what it taste like but because I can't drink it, I haven't drank pop in a year, and I tell people it like it some nutrion thing but in all reality if I tried to drink that pop infront of everyone, they'd watch me throw it up and tell me I need Togo get that checked out, I can't drink milk, I used to enjoy cereal and cartoons with my younger sisters I can't do that, I can't drink cold beverages, can't drink achole, and some days water gets hard to go down, I went to the doctor they gave me pills for my stomach and a 1500$ bill for ex rays...I'm a young black males working everyday to keep my apartment and gas in my car, so the 1500$ made me hate doctors because they didn't fix anything just gave me simply pills for my stomach they say they don't know whats wrong, but they barely looked into my problem......I'm so freakin young man I used to be a just about 200 pound football player...this started my senior year, at graduation I was barely 120 and there's Nothing like getting kicked off a team you've been on for years because your highschool thinks your a druggy, because I refused to let anyone but my coach know I can't keep my food down.....so I couldn't play my position either, I'm sure Im still at about 120 a year later, I feel like I'm dying man. I joke about it with my sister, but in all reality....I really do feel like I'm dying, theres so much I would do to go out to eat without going to the bathroom numerous times or bring my own personal gatorade water bottle....I would do so much to eat a meal and just carry on with my day like it used to be, iv never judged people by there problems, but this feels like a curse more then anything....and with everything iv been through in my life, iv stopped praying, if anyone understands even a little, write me a message in my email
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