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Undiagnosed Abdominal Pain
I have been suffering for 10+ years from an undiagnosed abdominal pain. My doctors have just told me anxiety. Usally I feel like I'm going to throw up, but never do. Rarely I get a bad headache and stomach ache and then throw up. Recently I have been feeling really lightheaded and weak, either before or after I eat. The only thing that seems to help that is DPT. My abdominal pain can feel like cramps or in the same area, like pinching, sometimes I want to cry(because I am tired of being in pain), and I havn't had solid stools in 2 or so months. There are foods like milkshakes and pineapple that I have stopped eating because everytime I eat/drink them I get very nausues. But one day I will eat oatmeal for breackfast and 3 days later the exact same thing, and I have to go to the nurse at school it hurts so bad. There are no similarities from journaling my feelings. Does anyone know of any gut doctors or what this might be? I don't want to be in pain forever.
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Thanks! We just met with a GI doctorand a nutritionist and I'm on a no sugar(natural and added) diet. Some tests are being done and some new meds are being tried.
I have had a lot is success dealing with post chemo stomach issues with Mayo Clinic’s GI Drs
@schreib69. More and more hospitals and clinics include integrative medicine, including Mayo Clinic. Here's more information about integrative medicine and care at Mayo:
– Integrative medicine https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/complementary-alternative-medicine/about/pac-20393581
Integrative medicine uses an evidence-based approach to treat the whole person — your mind, body and soul. Your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs are all involved, so integrative medicine uses a combination of therapies. It “integrates” conventional approaches and complementary therapies to achieve optimal health and healing.
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3 ReactionsIt is nice to hear Mayo is warming to the idea. Unfortunately, that is all apparently based on the areas being offered-- mostly non-medical and not much based on science.
If you look at ifm.org website you will see that the folks who teach classes are mostly MD's and Phd's. The area in which I recommended someone(?) consider functional medicine also was in the area of Gastrointestinal clinical practice. There is a terrible dearth of MD's(or even ND's) who can both prescribe drugs and utilize functonal medicine. The whole point of even considering functional medicine has to do with the fact the MOST doctors(generalizing, I know) are being taught to determine the symptoms and use an algorithm or look up table or even computer to assign a "correction" whether it is drugs or therapy or whatever. There are seldom actually out there attempting to find the REAL CAUSE and eliminate the cause. That is the point of Integrative Medicine. NOW. I am an engineer not a doctor, so certainly one most consider this with a certain grain of salt. However, if you talk to enough Int. Med. DOCTORS, it is likely this will be close to their response.
I have gone to a GI doctor and a nutritionist near me and we're pretty sure I can't tolerate Fructose. Which sucks, but I haven't had stomach pain in 3 days.