Athlete suffering from stomach problems

[HuiTzi]

Extensive description and timeline of my problem. If you recognize any of this, especially the bloating during the running when I ate something within 3.5 hours of my training, please reply. You have to know that before the 1st of December, I could eat a whole meal half an hour before training and don't have any problems with it whatsoever. And this has been so all my life.

PDF file : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/403418/Stomach%20story.pdf

I had to put into a pdf file since the story was exceeding the 2000 character limitation of this forum.

Please help. It has been over 2 months now. I have been taking medication that doesn't help me. I have been to doctors who can't explain the problem. I'm seeing a specialist now but any help is welcome.

Thx in advance !

Tim

[HuiTzi]

No problem, but thanks for replying anyway. It always feels good if you know you are heard by other people. I'll keep this thread updated with any progress. It could perhaps serve someone a great deal of benefit in the future.

The last two days, especially during the mornings, it's been going pretty well. I could sleep again during the mornings on my side and on my belly without any problems. Seems like my stomach was surely completely empty now, which was almost never the case for the last two months. So I guess the digestion goes better now.

But after a meal, I still prefer to lean a bit backwards and relax for a good 2 hours, before doing anything else. It still feels heavy when I sit upstraight or lean over. But maybe this is just normal ? I don't know anymore what a normal digestion feels like :-D.

[Tom_123]

Thanks for sharing that.
The lack of responses aren't because we aren't interested, it's probably because there's not much we can add.
I like many others read your entire .pdf and hope your now on the road of happy destiny.
Tom

[HuiTzi]

I saw a specialist the day before yesterday and he said I probably never had any real problems with stomach acid. The problem was that my stomach was overloaded due to a too high amount of fibers, which caused other organs to start malfunctioning too. It's my pancreas that according to him is not producing any enzymes anymore (or not enough) to digest the food. So my food just stays undigested in my stomach and it takes ages for it to digest. So now I have to avoid fibers at all costs and take fake fibers and fake pancreas enzymes (pancreatine) 2 and 3 times a day.

During the last 2 months I have thus actually made my situation worse. If lowered my stomach acid, reducing the digestion speed of fibers, and ate also a lot of fibers, because I was told that this keeps the stomach busy thus reducing the effects of GERD. So in conclusion : always be careful about what you hear from a doctor. They are not always right ! Search for second opinions or you might end up as me worsening your situation for 2 months by listening to those 3 normal doctors ... Specialists rule !