C. diff, SIBO and chronic nausea
I started 8 months ago with either food poisoning or a stomach flu. I have never recovered. I have had every test done and continue to suffer from nausea everyday. In the middle of this I was diagnosed with and treated for c-diff twice but because I didn’t have the classic symptoms the drs at Mayo thought they were false positives. I also was diagnosed and treated for SIBO twice. The nausea everyday which is where this all started never went away. Has anyone had this and come up with a solution?
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Hello , Thank u for ur Reply !
actually im going to another psychiatrist after 2 days and i`ll see what will happen ..i just Cant live like that even anti-nuasea med`s didnt work
Hello Thank u for ur reply .. actually i did ultrasound 3 times and nothing worng
@darweshalassi - I had a few months of constant nausea at one point- I understand how miserable you must be. I finally saw GI at Mayo again. The thought was that it was caused by GERD. At the visit I also got Rx for Zofran for nausea. It worked very well and I would take it in the morning before getting out of bed. It wasn’t long before I could do without it.
Another thought- antidepressants helped you- SSRI ( serotonin reuptake inhibitor) I assume since that is most common nowadays. Our GI tract also likes serotonin- who knows how the antidepressant helped you. However, I suggest you also ask your doctor if you can try Zofran.
My mom is now 84 and has been experiencing chronic nausea for 6 yrs that use to be seasonal in Alabama (Feb - Oct), but now year round. She has recently started taking Imipromene to reduce the sensitivity of the gut which takes several weeks to start working, but about the time it seemed to be working she had a bad UTI and of course a round of antibiotics. Her nausea during the UTI and antibiotics was high level and around the clock coupled with anxiety and lack of sleep. She is taking Nexium and now Phenergen (vs Reglan which stopped working after 2 months). Her gut seems more sensitive so we are trying to give her foods with probiotics and prebiotics to build the healthy bacteria again. Phenergan is helping her sleep at night better, but unstable due to dizziness. We are not sure what to do and her gastroenterologist seems puzzled. We are also going to try the ReliefBand and praying that works for her! Any suggestions of a great doctor in Alabama or near?
Maybe she should have fecal elastase testing to rule out EPI.
What does a doctor say about the fact that it started out seasonal and what is their different about where she lives
Hi Susan -- yes her Gastroenterologists have done a fecal test and said all was fine there. Thank you.
The doctors she has been seeing do not seem to focus on that and now we are beyond that and it is constant. The nausea use to begin about 5 am and sometimes go away later in the morning, but most days it would linger until 5 to 6 pm and magically diminish. Somedays she would be free of nausea, but not often. She use to never be nauseous at night, but now since she took the 5 days of antibiotic about 3 wks ago the nausea is 24/7 with no relief unless on 50 mg of Phenergan.
I suffer from chronic nausea and use phenergan which helps me a great deal
Has she thought about seeing a gastro naturopath or functional dr? They get to the root cause.