falling apart

[Old lady]

For the last few weeks, I have been suffering the most violent dry heaves in the morning, after caughing, which leave me totally weak and shaky and cause pain to radiate throughout my body, from stomach to chest to back.
Diahrea started about the same time, 3 to 4 times a day, often after eating, but usually in the morning, and looks like undigested food.
Having a heart condition, I take blood thinners and other heart medications.
I am under a lot of stress, both at home and at work, so I also take stress and depresssion medication, but those symptoms just seem too violent and severe to be attributed to stress or medications.
If anyone has ever been through something similar, please help.
The doctors don't seem to be able to, and I can't function anymore.
Thank you

[msna1]

I don't know if this will help, but my mother took some type of heart medicine or blood pressure medicine that caused her t cough for almost a year.  I just knew she had a serious illness, but it was the medicine!

Sounds like maybe just the flu also

[kaya]

I certainly agree with wilson, try and get on some natural supplements instead.  Go to the health food store and look in the nutrional healing book for the herbs.  Good for stress and depression, kava, st. john's wort, chamomile, valerian, hops,etc. Many times all the side effects of prescription drugs make us feel worse, but we think it's the dis-ease not the drugs.  You would feel better if you got off them.  Kaya

[Wilson]

Without a doubt many medications can cause the kinds of symptoms you're describing, especially certain heart medications.