25th January 2008
I just read all of this and thought i would share my story. I am 20 years old right now, Just before i turned 18 in the begining of my senior year i started to always feel sick, the "leaning over the toilet about to throw up feeling" no matter what i ate or drank. All day, it never went away. I have had severe acid reflux since i was born and was diagnosed with gerd as well as a faulty pyloric valve, the flap of skin the closes after food passes from your esophogus into your stomach.
Anyways it got to the point where i was throwing up 60 70 times a day, everything in my stomach was gone and i would uncontrollably dry heave for hours on end. I was unable to take a small bite of food or a sip of any drink, it would just come right back up. I went 9 days without eating anything more than a couple of popsicles that barely went down and i eventually puked back up.
My mom finally decided to take me to the emergency room, where they gave me Reglan, a prescription drug used to help stop severe vomiting. If any of you are familiar with Reglan you know it is not in the least bit a fun drug to be on. It attacks your nervous system and leaves you with an uncotrollable, on edge, total wacked out feeling. You get so anxious about nothing, you cant think yo yourself, it makes you jump out of your own skin. after one 10 mg pill you feel the effects quite a bit. I was taking 4 a day and was unable to drive and had blurred vision, and just a crazy messed with type of feeling.
The severe vomiting never went away, i went back to the hospital and had every stomach test known to man, fiberoptic scan, endoscopy, gerds testing, ct scans, MRI's, chest x-rays, gastric emptying test, radioactive bypass tests and who knows what else. All of them came up with no answerss as to why i was having such severe symptons that could not be stopped or slowed.
After the 1st month i dropped an amazing amount of weight, i went from 203 lbs to 137 in just over a month. I lost all energy, i could barely stay awake and walk around to just live life. Months went by before i found a book, a biography written by a college student with the same symptoms. After reading the first 5 pages in aw that someone else in the world had these problems and i wasnt alone i skipped directly to the back that gave the answer of how he solved his problems. He took a combination of omeprazole, reglan, and natural stomach supplements like acidofoulus.
I started on that same pill program and after about 3 more months i was back to gaining weight and eating food again. It took just about a year for my stomach to be back to as normal as possible.
Unfortunately i had to stop taking reglan due to severe parkinsins like symptoms and involuntary muscle movement, even paralysis that reglan can cause. My stomach has gone back to its old problem ways but not completely. I can still eat food but not alot and i am completely unable to go out partying and drinking. Out of no where all day i feel really nautious and gagged. My only way to fight it off is to chew gum, i did it when i first started getting problems and it helps to take my mind off my stomach.
Please post more stuff, are there any sure solutions to this problem??
Anyways it got to the point where i was throwing up 60 70 times a day, everything in my stomach was gone and i would uncontrollably dry heave for hours on end. I was unable to take a small bite of food or a sip of any drink, it would just come right back up. I went 9 days without eating anything more than a couple of popsicles that barely went down and i eventually puked back up.
My mom finally decided to take me to the emergency room, where they gave me Reglan, a prescription drug used to help stop severe vomiting. If any of you are familiar with Reglan you know it is not in the least bit a fun drug to be on. It attacks your nervous system and leaves you with an uncotrollable, on edge, total wacked out feeling. You get so anxious about nothing, you cant think yo yourself, it makes you jump out of your own skin. after one 10 mg pill you feel the effects quite a bit. I was taking 4 a day and was unable to drive and had blurred vision, and just a crazy messed with type of feeling.
The severe vomiting never went away, i went back to the hospital and had every stomach test known to man, fiberoptic scan, endoscopy, gerds testing, ct scans, MRI's, chest x-rays, gastric emptying test, radioactive bypass tests and who knows what else. All of them came up with no answerss as to why i was having such severe symptons that could not be stopped or slowed.
After the 1st month i dropped an amazing amount of weight, i went from 203 lbs to 137 in just over a month. I lost all energy, i could barely stay awake and walk around to just live life. Months went by before i found a book, a biography written by a college student with the same symptoms. After reading the first 5 pages in aw that someone else in the world had these problems and i wasnt alone i skipped directly to the back that gave the answer of how he solved his problems. He took a combination of omeprazole, reglan, and natural stomach supplements like acidofoulus.
I started on that same pill program and after about 3 more months i was back to gaining weight and eating food again. It took just about a year for my stomach to be back to as normal as possible.
Unfortunately i had to stop taking reglan due to severe parkinsins like symptoms and involuntary muscle movement, even paralysis that reglan can cause. My stomach has gone back to its old problem ways but not completely. I can still eat food but not alot and i am completely unable to go out partying and drinking. Out of no where all day i feel really nautious and gagged. My only way to fight it off is to chew gum, i did it when i first started getting problems and it helps to take my mind off my stomach.
Please post more stuff, are there any sure solutions to this problem??