What’s wrong with my stomach?
Hello, i’ve been having constant stomach issues for 3 months now. It started as a thing that comes and goes, but now my stomach is constantly acting up. In the past, i would have episodes of stomach pain, usually after events like new year’s easter, family gatherings, but i had this happen once without going somewhere, just staying at home. It’s an upper stomach pain that ruins 3 days for me. And then my stomach area goes sore, then goes away after 2-3 days. Recently in late july i was at the gym, and i was working out, and it was going well, and after i had done my last exercise, my heart didnt slow down and was just beating fast. This scared me, i was shaky, nauseous, i was thinking of calling an ambulance because i was feeling so unwell. But gor back home, and i had intense cramping in my gut so i went and had a bowel movement, and the pain subsided, but my heart was still beating faster than usual. I laid down to try and sleep, and i was having these whole body shakes periodically 4 or 5 times. After about 30 minutes everything went back to fully normal. But this was the start of my gut issues. Since then, i fluctuate, feeling well, feeling unwell, having a lot of gas sometimes, sometimes not, i have inconsistent stool, ranging from constipation to diarrhea, sometimes when my stomach is bad, and i stand up from sitting or laying down, i almost pass out from a drop in blood pressure, and had palpitations/fluttering from my stomach problems, i think mostly from the gas, and when my stomach is bad, i sometimes feel an upward pressure in the stomach area, and it makes me want to take shallow breaths, my heart starts beating fast but “shallow or light” beats, and this faster heart beating subsides or get’s better if i lay or sit down. Also this upwards pressure too. It has been affecting me mentally and physically since i lost 4 kg’s of weight, and i stopped going to the gym because i am constantly fluctuating between feeling okay, and feeling bad. So i went and did some tests:
- had a stomach ultra sound, everything was okay.
- had general bloodwork, everything was in the right range.
- had a nutritive panel and celiac test, it was all negative.
- had H. Pylori test, it was negative.
- been to a gastroenterologist, which said i should take out lactose and limit milk protein, which i do since 08. 14. And to take a celiac blood test, which i did and it’s negative. Will report back to the gastroenterologist, and tell her all that’s said here.
- keep a food log of everything i eat, and write up when i have symptoms.
- dont have any specific triggers, except for one. And that’s vegan cereal which consists of rolled oats and strawberry. This makes me have a lot of gas, and frequent, or maybe quick bowel movements, multiple, usually 3 the day after eating.
- dont have acid reflux, though i once woke up to feeling unwell, gagged 3 times, and then everything went back to normal, i put a pillow under my head and went back to sleep.
I will maybe take a SIBO test in the future, and see if that’s that. I will report back to my gastroenterologist with my findings, and see what she has to say. Im posting here to find out if anyone else has or had these symptoms, and if anyone got a diagnosis from a problem similar to this. Any help is really appreciated, because i feel sad that everyone else around me is going out feeling good, going to the gym, living their lives and only have to worry about goals and money etc. while i cant really think of goals and go out and eat and have fun, because im not okay physically and that makes me not okay mentally. Thank you for reading all this.