GI Disorder and Internal Shaking

Posted by gigiraj @gigiraj, Feb 15, 2019

Hi all. I'm a 21 year old South Asian female and I have been having GI issues for about five years--mainly along the lines of constipation. I do have bowel movements every day but it takes a long time & I am rarely fully cleared out. These GI issues are always accompanied by other health issues (gas, pressure in head, etc). Recently, some scary new conditions have manifested: In the past few weeks, there have been times where my heart starts beating wildly and very fast. Sometimes, when I'm tired and constipated, my entire body feels like its vibrating internally; the shakes aren't visible but it feels like all my muscles are quivering. At this point, I feel a constant shaking/quivering within my body, especially in my heart cavity.

I have had TWO EKG's and both came back normal. All lab tests for diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, etc came back within normal limits. I am very concerned about this internal shaking. My dad says he found something about how GI disorders can impact muscoskeletal system and since the heart is a muscle, it's contracting and being affected. But I wanted to know if anyone here can help!!!!!!! If anyone knows anything at all please please please let me know!!!!!

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Something similar happened to me approximately eight years ago (while going into menopause) and after a long time resolved itself. After seeing several specialists including a cardiologist all was ruled out.

This is currently happening to me again (eight years after). So far the items I have done which seem to be helping and have brought my heart rate and tremors down are as follows:
- I am taking a magnesium supplement (small amount) as I noticed Pepcid complete and Tylenol stopped tremors and helped with digestion, but I needed something more permanent. However after a week the results leveled off.

- I added a vitamin c supplement as my cortisol level was high. After the initial dose seems to be working.

- the cardiologist ruled out heart issues.

- I am taking some tests ordered by my gastroenterologist.

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Oh, thank you for this. I did seem to get some relief sleeping on two pillows, which did seem to help, but I am going to try an over the counter acid reducer and see if it helps.

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Try 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda mix with 1/2 glass of warm water instead of the meds . It helps and it is safe.

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Try 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda mix with 1/2 glass of warm water instead of the meds . It helps and it is safe.

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They say pillows don't work. Instead, sleeping on a wedge 6-8 inch helps. I was on baking soda and water. Got better, but then, got worse and didn't help.

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Are you all avoiding caffeine? That seems to make the tremors much worse?

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Are you all avoiding caffeine? That seems to make the tremors much worse?

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I have been ill for four years and never had tremors. I don't drink caffeine as is acidic and bad for Gerd and LPR. I got completely better twice, but then I started eating sweets and bacon and fried food and coffee and got sick again.

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Try 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda mix with 1/2 glass of warm water instead of the meds . It helps and it is safe.

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Baking soda is not safe for use for long period of time. It is made from GMO corn. All corn were sprayed with Round Up, unless you find non-GMO baking soda. I was on baking soda, until found out make me more acidic. You have to know how much baking soda to add or to reduce, so balances your gut PH. Please talk to your doctor and do your research. This is just my experience with baking soda.

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Please try finding out if you have SIBO. You will probably have to find a functional med dr. to test you or find a lab & pay for the test. It is a test that is based on your breath. Normally regular doctors won't test for it because they either do not know enough about it or their labs will not test for it. I am going to have this test done & also for parasites, It's crazy that M.D.'s do not want to test for either - I don't think they know enough about either. I have these weird shakes in the middle of the night & lots of different foods affect it also.

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is it posting i don't see my post?

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Hello i'm new here sorry about the previous post i wanted to make sure it would post before writing i'm also sorry in advance for my bad writing and spelling and long post 🙂 anyways i have been going through the same stuff for over 10 years too i don't know how to make 10 years into a short post and i dread to even type but let me start of saying how and around the time this started i just bought my house i was doing work to it i was also taking care of my terminal dad that had cancer i kept falling down i thought it was from running jack hammers ect i have nerve damage from my back later after my dad died i found out i had kidney cancer i also got real bad acid reflux i was put on acid reflux medicine and this is when the real nightmare started within 2 months of being on it i started developing all kinds of scary symptoms i thought it must be caused by my cancer but i found out that was not true later i started realizing the medicine was doing things to me i was scared of all ppi after this i read the reviews and a lot of people developed these symptoms after being on them later i found out like most of u i think it was just me maybe reacting to it maybe or maybe it even caused it who knows? i have so many symptoms in the past i would not wish any of this on my enemy and it was the internet that helped me i was told to stay away from it thank god i did not listen anyways things that helped me to lesson the symptoms like most of you say was watching what i eat also a year in i found out what made me totally normal for a few years was high dose vitamin d i was found to be low and they started me on 50,000 iu once a week and it took a month and half for it to start working but boy when it did i was so happy it was like nothing ever happened but soon as i stopped it they all came back i also tried to break 50,000 iu down to lower doses and take daily but that made me worse so only the one time mega dose helped me when i got my level up i switched to taking it once every 2 weeks mostly for awhile to once a month depending when i felt the symptoms coming back and my what my level is right now my level is at 82ng i like to keep it no higher then 70-75 so i been slacking off it trying once every month and half i managed my symptoms with vitamin d for years and i still take it 10 years later don't just go do this talk to your doctor first and monitor your vitamin d levels as they say you can take too much one day i was with my cousin and he drinks i use too but when i had these symptoms i stopped i could not think of even doing it i had enough to deal with anyways i was already doing good with the vitamin d i could eat anything with no symptoms then one day i started drinking and it helped me too which i found strange i could not make the connection why they both would help but i would do anything just to keep the symptoms away i dealt with daily all day so with people mentioning you could over dose on vitamin d i stopped the vitamin to let my levels come down and started drinking i drank for a long time i don't suggest you to do this i lost my license ended up jail payed a lot of money spent a lot of money i got to drinking a 30 pack some days and averaged around 20 beers to half of a half gallon of whisky a day for years at the end i was drinking half a gallon of whiskey a few times and one day i drank 3/4 of a gallon and ended up in the hospital for 5 days drinking will destroy your life your family your body it will kill your liver and kill you in many ways so don't do this i woke up one time my arms jerking 3 foot movement so please don't i'm just telling my story maybe someone can make the connection why it might have helped me anyways before i got so bad on the drinking i tried to stop it and go back to the vitamin d i found it no longer helped me like it did so that's when i went back to the drinking i then found the the drinking did not help me either like it did before but they both did help some and kept some of the worse of it away so i continued with both i got my dui about a year ago that's when everything started getting worse like it was not already worse i could not think of anything ever being worse then what i was already dealing with but i guess it can my hair started to fall out every time i touched it my eyebrow hair too not clumps but strands i also have internal tremors like if you watched walmart mix the gallon of paint the machine that shakes it that how fast and hard they were i woke up with them and they lasted all day i had them every day i thought it was withdraw from the beer i started drinking again they actually went away so i was sucked in to drinking again after trying to quit 2 times now until about 3 weeks ago i started waking up the day after drinking with high heart rate 125 beats a min while resting with high blood pressure and shakes till around 6pm it would calm down it was awful i never had hang over symptoms so i thought that was strange so i read it could be not drinking enough water and drinking so i tried to drink more water when i drank that did not help and then it lead into feeling like i was having a heart attack with chest arm pain tingling in hands and bottom of feet and lips and i think even my tongue so remember i can't drive so i had to call the ambulance over this already 3 or 4 times very scary they even had hooked the thing that restarts your heart up on my be case it quits very scary the last time i drank 1 beer and my heart jumped to 125 just with one i have not drank in about 3 weeks now my heart done this even with out drinking just from walking i felt it while out i find sitting down and trying to stay calm is best being up makes it worse and takes longer but if i sit 45 minutes to hour it calms down at least it seems this is new to me i hate going to hospitals and after i got my cancer it really woke me up i think it is corruption and a money scheme i hate it anyways i will make a new post below with some of my symptoms i have dealt with over the 10 years

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