Chronic Gut Issues
Hi, I'm Lexi and very new to chatting online like this. I find myself here because the past two years I've been dealing with almost nonfunctional gut pains. I make so many irregular bathroom trips, followed by extreme nausea and vomiting. It was so hard to eat even the smallest amount of food. Eventually, I had to drop out of school, quit my job and become bedridden for months. I've spent so much time at the doctors with so many different opinions about what's wrong with me. When I was getting all my scanning and tests done, I was told there was internal bleeding in my lower abdomen but nothing would be done because I wasn't anemic. However, going to my doctors not even two weeks later, I was told there's no bleeding in the pictures but I'm fairly anemic.
I've been on countless medication and diets from the doctors without a single diagnosis to my name. The best advice they had was for me to drink out of a straw. I've lost so much weight and am hurting myself to try to maintain a healthy number on the scale.
I just don't know what to do anymore and feel so defeated. Thanks for listening. < 3
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You’re welcome. I have anxiety and doctors have occasionally tried to put me on mood stabilizers, but I refuse. I’ve heard horror stories about those drugs. And I hate it when doctors treat a physical complaint as if it’s psychological when it’s not. I’m not saying that emotions don’t affect our bodies because they do, but if you have something organically wrong, you need some kind of treatment. I do, however, take a benzodiazepine tranquilizer at night to help me sleep because I have insomnia. I’ve never had any issues with it, but I take as little as I possibly can. I hope a stomach tranquilizer will help you!