I have had stomach pain/problems for 8 years now. It comes and goes. At times it gets so bad it hurts all the time and I loose 10 - 20 lb. This time the pain has been from.... June 2006 till now, with about 6, 5 day stretches of relief. I have gone from 126 to 116 in the past 2 months.
It does depend what I eat - sometimes. If ate spagetti, coffee, sweets, any raw vegetable, more than a small bite of meat, I would have to go on the brat diet for a week or more before the pain lets up.
My last endoscopy was may 2006 -in-active gastritis,and redness around the hiatal hernia area.
I have tried DGL, slippery elm, gentle digestive enzymes, L- glutamine and some stomcah formulas. It is very tender to the touch under the breastbone.Maybe food gets caught up there and rots?
Right now it feels like i have been punched in the stomach.
I never feel "hunger". Only pain.
I take dandelion and ginger for digestion.I am on 20 mg of nexuim. When I take a full dose of it, my digestion slows to the point that I never hear my stomach churn, and the food sits there until i get a putrid nausea feeling on top of the pain.
They wont do another endoscopy yet. They want to do a 24 hour ph test. I already tried that 3 years ago and I couldnt tollerate that thing in my throat- so forget that.
My liver and pancreas enzymes are very good. My gall bladder is out already ( 5 years ago ).
I go BM each morning.
Thanks for any ideas.
ellie