Hello. I have been a healthy female for most of my life and I am 31 years old (had my gallbladder removed a few years back). I have been vomiting mostly every time I eat (some meals stay down) for several weeks now. It started off just just a few times a week and I thought I had a bug. Then, it got worse and I went to my family doc. He did the usual blood test to check for pregnancy and it was negative, so he put me on Protonix for acid (even though I did not have heartburn). After 3 weeks of it and my vomiting getting worse, he sent me to a GI Specialist. I've been through several tests - CAT Scans, Upper endoscopy, blood tests - and more are scheduled. He thinks it may be gastric paresis, but my vomiting occurs before the food startes breaking down - within 30 minutes of eating. I've lost about 20lbs and I am not getting any answers. I am scheduled to see another specialist for a second opinion, but in the mean time, I am trying to research on my own. Can anyone please help me or make any suggestions? I greatly appreciate any assistance.
Loading...
Well, i have the same thing. i also vomit about 30 minutes after eating. i don't know what it is and haven't seen a doctor. the only difference if i am 14 years old. if you find anything out on this please email me at _[removed]_. Please that would help greatly4
Loading...
Well, i have the same thing. i also vomit about 30 minutes after eating. i don't know what it is and haven't seen a doctor. the only difference if i am 14 years old.
**edited by moderator**
**edited by moderator**
Loading...
I am beginning the 5th episode of vomiting after almost every meal. I can keep down liquids, and am surviving on Slim Fast. I don't lose a whole lot of weight during each episode, but I've seen 4 different doctors...gastroenterologists, specialists, allergists, endocrinologists, even an oncologist. About the only kind of doctor I haven't seen is a vet!
No one has found a solution or a cause. Each episode lasts from about 3 weeks up to the longest lasting 8 months. The only consistent answer anyone has given is stress. But I know something more is wrong with me. Although, I guess it does make me feel like I'm crazy because no one else understands how I feel.
If anyone can give answers...please help. You have no idea how frustrating and helpless this is.
No one has found a solution or a cause. Each episode lasts from about 3 weeks up to the longest lasting 8 months. The only consistent answer anyone has given is stress. But I know something more is wrong with me. Although, I guess it does make me feel like I'm crazy because no one else understands how I feel.
If anyone can give answers...please help. You have no idea how frustrating and helpless this is.
Loading...
Malik 0000 wrote:
Sorry Malik, but your advice is a little heartless. Clearly we've all see doctors (I have the *exact* same symptoms as described above). Unfortunately the Hypocratic oath stops at "Do no harm" and doesn't finish with "but also do your JOB." I don't know how many doctors have told me that I'm just stressed and it will all sort itself out. Clearly these doctors don't think I have enough money for them to give a rats ass about me.
I'm only 26, I'm heathy and not pregnant. I work a lot but I don't let it stress me out. I vomit 30-45 minutes after eating about 4 times a week. Mostly after supper, but lately it's been happening in the morning. The doctors said the usual, stress and flu but that can't possibly be it.
As an added ironic bonus to all of this, I have similar but distinct symptoms when I work out. Cardio doesn't usually trigger my syptoms, but weight lifting does. I become dizzy, feel nauseous, and have even become slightly comatose after working out. So much so that I was completely unresponsive for a hour after working out once and had to sleep for about 7 hours before feeling normal again.
If anyone has an inkling of what is wrong, I would be thrilled. I just feel like my life completely sucks and has for two years now. I can't work out, I can't eat, I still gain weight and my body hurts constantly. I've been checked for depression, heart disease, gastritis, low blood pressure, and any other random test that I've paid for that didn't produce any results. I'm completely embittered towards doctors now because I feel like no one cares enough to figure out what is wrong with my body.
Please help!
you should consult a doctor
Sorry Malik, but your advice is a little heartless. Clearly we've all see doctors (I have the *exact* same symptoms as described above). Unfortunately the Hypocratic oath stops at "Do no harm" and doesn't finish with "but also do your JOB." I don't know how many doctors have told me that I'm just stressed and it will all sort itself out. Clearly these doctors don't think I have enough money for them to give a rats ass about me.
I'm only 26, I'm heathy and not pregnant. I work a lot but I don't let it stress me out. I vomit 30-45 minutes after eating about 4 times a week. Mostly after supper, but lately it's been happening in the morning. The doctors said the usual, stress and flu but that can't possibly be it.
As an added ironic bonus to all of this, I have similar but distinct symptoms when I work out. Cardio doesn't usually trigger my syptoms, but weight lifting does. I become dizzy, feel nauseous, and have even become slightly comatose after working out. So much so that I was completely unresponsive for a hour after working out once and had to sleep for about 7 hours before feeling normal again.
If anyone has an inkling of what is wrong, I would be thrilled. I just feel like my life completely sucks and has for two years now. I can't work out, I can't eat, I still gain weight and my body hurts constantly. I've been checked for depression, heart disease, gastritis, low blood pressure, and any other random test that I've paid for that didn't produce any results. I'm completely embittered towards doctors now because I feel like no one cares enough to figure out what is wrong with my body.
Please help!
Loading...
- i have had problems since i was 16. now at the age of 23, and after numerous tests, hospital stays and frustrations they have finally diagnosed me.
mine started with a simple gastroenteritis bug (or so i thought). after a week of having this bug, i started to get pains and feel very sick, was diagnosed with appendicitis, and had this removed eventually 2 days after chronic pain and puking blood. the surgeon said that my appendix exploded upon him cutting me open to remove it and that i should feel lucky he wasnt an hour later in doing the surgery. after this surgery i kept getting constant water infections and a sharp pain under my right hand side ribs... this was dismissed for three months after the surgery by my gp, saying that it was my body recovering from the operation and that things woulod settle down and upon my 3 month checkup with the surgeon he said to me, and i quote, "come to me for appendix problems, and nothing more," didnt check the wound site or examine me in any way and left the room. i was quite upset at this as you can imagine and a week after this went into complete bladder retention. my bladder has not worked since so i have to self catheterise. i have done numerous tests with the urology dept, which all shows that my bladder has lost its function and is now simply put a sack that will hold the urine in but wont let it out. whilst having these problems, a doctor asked me a simple question which literally stopped me in my tracks and i had to think long and hard about " when was the last time you had a bowel motion" simple question you would think, but i homestly could not answer it. this became a problem over the next 2 years where my bowel stopped working and i was having chronic constipation all the time. being so full at times that i would vomit when i ate because there was simply no room for any more food in my abdomen. laxatives werent helpful, no matter how many i took and enema's didnt work.. much to the frustration of the gastro specialist i was now under. tests showed that the pain that i mentioned earlier under my right had side ribs, was where the problem in my large bowel was and this was dysfunctional. i ended up having most of my large bowel removed and being joined up inside ( a small blessing of not having to have a stoma, however i was told that this would probably only last me 3-5 years before i would have to resort to stoma bags). after this operation, i still had consitpation but not as bad as i had done and laxitives were more effective. i had a bad case of supra ventricula tachicardia which is where your heart races for no reason, and the hospital had to stop my heart with drugs in order for them to get it into a normal rhythm and put me on cardio drugs and i lived a pretty normal 3 years after that, however, then the constipation started to get bad again, which resulted in me taking copious amounts of laxatives again without results, and i was getting sick when i ate fatty foods, or dairy with sharp pains under my right hand side, which last year i had surgery to remove my gallbladder as it wasnt emptying properly and filling up with fluid. this corrected the problem for a couple of months however last august, i started to feel full all of the time, not wanting to eat, or feeling sick when i did ( i was going through a breakup at the time and put alot of this down to stress and upset) i was managing fluids, so pretty much just stopped eating. i was a big girl at this stage and was around a size 20... however by the time i gave up trying to eat this was November.. and i was living on fatty or sugary drinks to keep me going. my gastro doctor at this point did a gastric emptying test that was abnormal at this point, i however didnt find the results out until January when i was admitted into hospital not being able to keep any food down at all and now anything a drank came straight back up. when i was admitted i was severely dehydrated and malnutritioned. they put a nasojujedinal tube in to feed me straight to my small bowel and built up my nutrition through that, whilst doing different tests but they couldnt explain why this was happening. the doctors then admitted that they thought i was nuts and that it was a psychological problem. i however had a good surgeon who didnt believe this and had a look into my stomach with camera and noticed that my stomach had a problem opening the polaris muscle (which is the muscle that opens and closes into your bowel). he knew at that point that it was a mechanical problem so they kept digging... but couldnt explain the reasons. then after 6 weeks of the NJ tube being in situ, that came out and they placed a hickman line into my chest to feed me and eventually ( after being in hospital for 5 months) in may sent me to see a specialist in London, St Barts. within 15 minutes of being in the room with this doctor down there, and doing the most random simple tests and answering some very strange questions i was diagnosed. i have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Type III. or Joint Hypermobility Syndrome as it was previously known.
strangely this is linked with your joints more than anything, and i know i have neveer mentioned any problems with my joints, however i didnt think i really had any problems with them until he pointed them out. my joints click a lot and ache in the winter, and i had always been flexible as a child but isnt everyone?!? the tests i did with him showed that my joints were hypermoble. and Ehlers Danlos was a connective tissue disorder... meaning the connective tissue doesnt hold things how it should. which made my joints more flexible and my organs the same.. all of my symptoms were suddenly explained and made so much sense. in the hour and a half i was in with him, he made my whole life make sense. even down to things that i didnt think was a problem or what i thought was normal for me. down to tiny things, like sedastives not working and local anaesthetics not working, this is all down to connective tissue disorder. it also explained my dizziness as my veins werent clamping when they shoudl so i was getting head rushes as the blood rushed to my brain and made me want to faint.
i thought id post this as there is a lot of people with no hope of finding what is wrong, and maybe sumone out there with the same symptoms as me, wondering what the hell is going on. there are differemt types of ehlers danlos syndrome so symptoms may vary slightly but there are some very good website one being which explains quite a lot. my type III is made out to be the least severe however in my case my symptoms are to the extreme, not everyones will be that, and doctors are currently looking into whether i have a brand new subtype or just the most severe of the gastro type. as i write this i am still in hospital hopefully awaiting release soon ( i know, that makes me sound like i am escaping a nut house, believe m e it feels like it after 6 months of being in here, this time but 7 years in total of in and out of hospital) i hope this article may help someone just like me in understanding a little bit about the condition and to all of you others, i wish you all the luck in finding out what is wrong.
:D
***edited by moderator*** web addresses not allowed
mine started with a simple gastroenteritis bug (or so i thought). after a week of having this bug, i started to get pains and feel very sick, was diagnosed with appendicitis, and had this removed eventually 2 days after chronic pain and puking blood. the surgeon said that my appendix exploded upon him cutting me open to remove it and that i should feel lucky he wasnt an hour later in doing the surgery. after this surgery i kept getting constant water infections and a sharp pain under my right hand side ribs... this was dismissed for three months after the surgery by my gp, saying that it was my body recovering from the operation and that things woulod settle down and upon my 3 month checkup with the surgeon he said to me, and i quote, "come to me for appendix problems, and nothing more," didnt check the wound site or examine me in any way and left the room. i was quite upset at this as you can imagine and a week after this went into complete bladder retention. my bladder has not worked since so i have to self catheterise. i have done numerous tests with the urology dept, which all shows that my bladder has lost its function and is now simply put a sack that will hold the urine in but wont let it out. whilst having these problems, a doctor asked me a simple question which literally stopped me in my tracks and i had to think long and hard about " when was the last time you had a bowel motion" simple question you would think, but i homestly could not answer it. this became a problem over the next 2 years where my bowel stopped working and i was having chronic constipation all the time. being so full at times that i would vomit when i ate because there was simply no room for any more food in my abdomen. laxatives werent helpful, no matter how many i took and enema's didnt work.. much to the frustration of the gastro specialist i was now under. tests showed that the pain that i mentioned earlier under my right had side ribs, was where the problem in my large bowel was and this was dysfunctional. i ended up having most of my large bowel removed and being joined up inside ( a small blessing of not having to have a stoma, however i was told that this would probably only last me 3-5 years before i would have to resort to stoma bags). after this operation, i still had consitpation but not as bad as i had done and laxitives were more effective. i had a bad case of supra ventricula tachicardia which is where your heart races for no reason, and the hospital had to stop my heart with drugs in order for them to get it into a normal rhythm and put me on cardio drugs and i lived a pretty normal 3 years after that, however, then the constipation started to get bad again, which resulted in me taking copious amounts of laxatives again without results, and i was getting sick when i ate fatty foods, or dairy with sharp pains under my right hand side, which last year i had surgery to remove my gallbladder as it wasnt emptying properly and filling up with fluid. this corrected the problem for a couple of months however last august, i started to feel full all of the time, not wanting to eat, or feeling sick when i did ( i was going through a breakup at the time and put alot of this down to stress and upset) i was managing fluids, so pretty much just stopped eating. i was a big girl at this stage and was around a size 20... however by the time i gave up trying to eat this was November.. and i was living on fatty or sugary drinks to keep me going. my gastro doctor at this point did a gastric emptying test that was abnormal at this point, i however didnt find the results out until January when i was admitted into hospital not being able to keep any food down at all and now anything a drank came straight back up. when i was admitted i was severely dehydrated and malnutritioned. they put a nasojujedinal tube in to feed me straight to my small bowel and built up my nutrition through that, whilst doing different tests but they couldnt explain why this was happening. the doctors then admitted that they thought i was nuts and that it was a psychological problem. i however had a good surgeon who didnt believe this and had a look into my stomach with camera and noticed that my stomach had a problem opening the polaris muscle (which is the muscle that opens and closes into your bowel). he knew at that point that it was a mechanical problem so they kept digging... but couldnt explain the reasons. then after 6 weeks of the NJ tube being in situ, that came out and they placed a hickman line into my chest to feed me and eventually ( after being in hospital for 5 months) in may sent me to see a specialist in London, St Barts. within 15 minutes of being in the room with this doctor down there, and doing the most random simple tests and answering some very strange questions i was diagnosed. i have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Type III. or Joint Hypermobility Syndrome as it was previously known.
strangely this is linked with your joints more than anything, and i know i have neveer mentioned any problems with my joints, however i didnt think i really had any problems with them until he pointed them out. my joints click a lot and ache in the winter, and i had always been flexible as a child but isnt everyone?!? the tests i did with him showed that my joints were hypermoble. and Ehlers Danlos was a connective tissue disorder... meaning the connective tissue doesnt hold things how it should. which made my joints more flexible and my organs the same.. all of my symptoms were suddenly explained and made so much sense. in the hour and a half i was in with him, he made my whole life make sense. even down to things that i didnt think was a problem or what i thought was normal for me. down to tiny things, like sedastives not working and local anaesthetics not working, this is all down to connective tissue disorder. it also explained my dizziness as my veins werent clamping when they shoudl so i was getting head rushes as the blood rushed to my brain and made me want to faint.
i thought id post this as there is a lot of people with no hope of finding what is wrong, and maybe sumone out there with the same symptoms as me, wondering what the hell is going on. there are differemt types of ehlers danlos syndrome so symptoms may vary slightly but there are some very good website one being which explains quite a lot. my type III is made out to be the least severe however in my case my symptoms are to the extreme, not everyones will be that, and doctors are currently looking into whether i have a brand new subtype or just the most severe of the gastro type. as i write this i am still in hospital hopefully awaiting release soon ( i know, that makes me sound like i am escaping a nut house, believe m e it feels like it after 6 months of being in here, this time but 7 years in total of in and out of hospital) i hope this article may help someone just like me in understanding a little bit about the condition and to all of you others, i wish you all the luck in finding out what is wrong.
:D
***edited by moderator*** web addresses not allowed
Loading...
This may sound silly, but get the doc to check a stool sample for bugs.... Most go through life cycles/stages in your body if left a long time (untreated), and may not show up on initial tests. A bug (like crypto or giardia) is actually more common than you may think and can leave you vomiting/diarrhea/tired for months as it continues it's cycle in your body. Gross, but easy to fix with antibiotics.
Loading...
Hey I have been having problems too. I vomit after everytime I eat and get full. The only thing I have eaten and hasn't come back up is salt and vinegar chips and drinking water. Anything else it would cum back up. What could be wrong with me.
Loading...
My daughter is 15 and has been going through the same stuff as you all! We have seen so many specialist, tried many drugs and all were a fail! I kept pushing forward knowing she isnt the only person out there like this! Look into Autonomic Dysfunctions. There are several things we still cant pin point anything but Ehlers-Danlos ( a gentectist was the one who found this). I wish nothing but the best for you all and pray your answer is right around the cornor.
Loading...
Lyme disease can cause many of these symptoms. Check with a lyme literate doctor only to find out. Go to "lymenet.org" for help.
Loading...
whenever i eat i get vomithing why
now also i am not eating so much i have expected why tell me the reason
now also i am not eating so much i have expected why tell me the reason
Loading...
don't feel bad i'm like that too i weighted my self the other day and i lost 16 lbs i'm i eat a little bit of food doesn't matter what and i feel like i have to burp and here it comes back up it's not a whole lot just enougt and i'll tell my mom and she's like you need to see a doctor for it
Loading...
My mom is having these symptoms and I'm worried something is wrong with her but she won't tell me. She's been to many doctors and just recently taken to Urgent Care then the ER. I'm really worried and I'm hoping anyone can give me some details with whats going on with her.
Loading...