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Misterious Night hunger - can it be low stomach acid
Digestive Health | Last Active: Jun 22, 2023 | Replies (11)Comment receiving replies
Hi and thanks for the thoughtful response.
The combination of things that seem to help you are quite interesting - I do not know what it means necessarily, but good for you for trying new things out.
Let's say you're woken up in the night with the feeling and have some betaine HCl or ACV - how soon after are you able to go back to bed? Again for me it's at least 2-3 hours, during which I'm basically just wasting my life feeling like garbage ...
To confirm, you have not been officially diagnosed with any digestive disease? Have you seen a doctor to look inside your stomach? As someone else posted, it could be something as "normal" as an ulcer, which is presenting symptoms in a weird way. Do you have any theories what triggered it in the first place? Any dramatic life changes that may have led to it? For example, a lot of people with my condition (SIBO) that have not had my surgery have their condition triggered by a bout of severe food poisoning ... without planting too many ideas in your head, can you draw any connections?
Have you been tested for H. Pylori? As you may know, it is a bacteria that lives in your stomach ... to me it seems like your issue may be directly in the stomach (unlike the small intestine for me), since eating/drinking something causes a benefit so quickly.
Again, it seems to me that you may benefit from a visit to specialist doctors, if you haven't already had one.
Best,
G
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Hi gboi,
thanks for your response!
Betaine HCL or ACV is always taken with a meal so that’s not a solution when you already wake up. In that case I used to just eat oatmeal but that’s not good to eat in the middle of the night, so I switched to celery juice or tea. In case of oatmeal I could usually fall asleep almost right away, but the sleep wasn’t ideal with my body digesting as you can imagine.
For me it started gradually since I was around 17, when I started going to the gym and eat a lot of carbs, smoking and drinking, partying etc. at first it wasn’t at night, it was just a hunger. I didn’t care as I was just a stupid teenager back then. It was slowly progressing and at college I started waking up just a little bit earlier because of the hunger, and I also could not get satisfied from almost any food. But I still didn’t to anything to manage it. And here we are today. I would just like to go back in time and beat my younger self for being such a stupid person who doesn’t care about their health. 😂
I am visiting GI doctor, the performed colonoscopy, endoscopy and also that thing that they do with pregnant women (don’t remember the name). They told me I had inflamed esophagus but that seems to be from aloe Vera, betaine and ACV. It’s also a separate issue that doesn’t cause the problem we are talking about.
So regarding stomach, colon etc they said everything was okay. All these tests I had also 3 years ago with the same results.
It’s definitely something there, it just can’t be seen on the test.
Regarding SIBO - THANK YOU SO MUCH! I looked into it, and although I almost don’t have any symptoms of that, I do believe it may be part of the problem. The things like rice, pasta, asparagus etc have been always problematic to me. I am more hungry after I eat them than before. and they all seem to be triggers for SIBO, right? For the last week I have been eating very clean - just meat, leafy greens and a small size of potatos. And things are getting better! I found out that pea protein was also causing problems. I use that in my morning oatmeal. I can sleep through the whole night usually. The sleep isn’t ideal and I still feel the hunger, but I doesn’t wake me completely.
I’m sorry about your condition, believe me I understand completely. So many nights I just cried in the middle of the night, hating my body, feeling like total shit the next day because of the lack of sleep.
I hope you get better soon. Maybe the fasting could help, if you didn’t try? I know it sounds drastic but it did help me, I just messed up afterwards 😃.