Dealing with multiple GI issues

Yes LFT is fine. I'm w you, I hear you. Taking years of this 23 y's to be exact. I'm sorry youre going through this too 🙁

I’ve had all the tests , did that one Gastric emptying study 6-7 years ago .
Many endoscopy’s and colonoscopy’s through the years . Last one Mar 2024 w/ biopsies.
I’ve even been to Mayo Clinic Jax for some tests that n 2021 .
All same diagnosis,
Gastritis , Esphogitis , GERD , small hiatal hernia , diverticulosis all over colon , small benign polyps on stomach lining ( flat ), IBS -alternating, 1000’s deep wet belches and non stop churning gut , nausea at times and throw up at times , chronic fatigue, Fatigue , PVCs , or high to low heart rate daily , barely eat anything.
It’s def ruined my life 11 years and getting worse.
I have CScan tomorrow Again .
Nothing and no one can help me .
I even talk to a therapist now and then . Done whole holistic approach too .
I sure hope they find out why your belly is so distended!!!
Keep me posted ok ✅?
God Bless … 🙏.

Thank you & you be blessed as well. Medical answers is like extracting a tooth. Or same as mental illness there's 100's diagnosed & misdiagnosed & given this n that & we'll land on one that works for you. Diets. Exhausted tests. I do need maternity tops, no joke. At least when we're pregnant, get uncomfortable, but you know relief is coming. This is repetitive. Years. Not slamming any communities. Drs are more advanced in transitioning & all edu for that & here We are sitting, wishing, hoping, praying the next test has to be the solution.

So true .
If they could only live a day if our lives .

Hi,
I really don't know why I haven't pulled the plug by now. Something keeps me searching for hope that some help will turn up. Until ANS starts with the word cancer little will be done. All my life I have been a fighter and don't give in easily, but I have to recognise there is no hope at all and sooner or later the plug will be pulled before I can no longer take care of it. I have always worked with my hands on delicate work and find it almost intolerable to be loosing my hand eye coordination. I can put up with most things and deal with physical pain hourly without meds, by choice, but not having the hand eye coordination really bothers me. I get to feel useless at times when I need the dexterity. At 73 and a lifetime of decisive decision making is now fading to indecisions and desperation, a place I don't want to be.
It is funny how keeping busy blocks the problems from the mind and masks the symptoms until I settle down for some rest, only to have the consequences of being busy grab the opportunity to kick me when I'm down. Then the pain surges through the hands and legs leaving me uncomfortable and unwilling to delve into my bottle of opioid based medication I keep tucked away for the really bad times.
I always thought rest and relaxation was a solution for the body to recover, not the opportunity for ANS and everything else going on to gang up on me and have a picnic at my expense!
Cheers

Protonix/ Pantraprazole for acid reflux, Rx. Pepcid complete otc. There's 100 names for sugar. Tuna fish & noodles, broiled or baked fish, how many bland ways to make a chicken or turkey breast. Gobble-gobble. What do we eat this holiday season. No grease tolerance. Chokes me out of kitchen, tears rollin. I'm not digesting poultry or fish if I eat 2 or most 3 days, I'm concentrating on walking, exercise. Followed w breakin out maternity tops for 10 month distensions. Uncomfortable, painful. Artichoke 8000 1st day was success. 1 cap Broke C to D. Next day 1 cap sent me to bthrm for vomiting. I know it's a new intro to my body. Trying 1 cap today to break z dam. My Chart has redundant colon. GI said I have a torturous redundant colon. They seem to know the names, labels, tests, procedures, check dignity at the door. I just had anal prolapse repaired n doc said its from stomach distensions, bearing weight, pressing down. Now, I sit cuz im afraid my rectum will fall out again w/o resolve for root cause. I'm happy I found somewhere to share & trade whatever knowledge we gain. May inadverntly help another. Look at chronic pain & many factors create candidates who are willing to try this, try that. Do they not know we're desperate here. Growing weaker as the glimmer of hope stays barely lit. URQ pain feels puched, then two days to recover from the spasm. I stopped everything I was told to do. To many drs, not enough answers. & Go to Dr well prepared. Research. @GI i requested Gastric Emptying stomach 4 hour test. GI said that's a good idea. I imagine my food is not digested & rotting in my gut. Test this Monday GES. klonopin can cause C. Choice; take a klonopin to calm down our anxiety & ambien for sleep here too.

Oh my , have you had liver checked ? Liver disease can cause distended abdomen like that !
I’ll pray for you . How horrible.
I’m a mess as well , so chronic. Plus slept 10 hrs in last 5 nights .
I have 7 diagnoses no one can help me .
Now I’m losing it not sleeping 💤.

@rozy288 last thing to go for us I'm told is our mind. & the last thing that went through the fly hitting the windshield was its ass. that's a joke dearheart. My LFT liver enzymes in my blood work look fine. For 4 months i got up every a.m to look for yellow of skin pee Coca-Cola n poop white. But I didn't. I've been spared bad liver & diabetic gastropresis but I'll take anyone's advice re natural home remedies. If you like black licorice use 2 Stash black licorice tea bags & relax. No tvs or phones on b4 bed. We need rest to have better tomorrow

But they don't. They live in fancy homes, fine cars, & eat the best. But I have to suggest time for dietician. I'd like a gastric emptying test. Oh thats gonna be the ticket. That's coming this Monday. Hit my chart by Tues or W. I think I ought to start checking credentials are they pro or quacked

Hi,
Strangely enough I used to have the house, cars etc and discovered I didn't need any of it. Still have a new car but something plainish that does what I need of it. I actually built my mansion believing it was what we wanted. Trouble was we needed a road map to find our way around it! Finally the penny dropped average houses can be fine, they keep the rain and wind out just as good and less maintenance is required.
After years of the insinuation that my problems are psychological in nature and almost believing the "doctors" the proof is in from a MRI scan. There are physical reasons for my health issues. You can bet there are going to be some red faces when I see my so called doctors net week. I may do some crazy things but I'm not crazy thank God.
Contemplation of what to do with the big switch is again on my mind. If I can't get the medical help I want and kind of expect, then will I stop and reject all medication to help nature to take its course. I guess if I decide to use the big switch then I'm kind of proving the case that I'm nuts to them anyway! Murphy's law.
Cheers