digestive problems

My son is 23 years old.  He has had digestive issues since high school, which seem to be getting progressively worse.  In high school he started experiencing nausea every day.  A doctor tried him on acid reflux medication, which just made him vomit undigested food.  He does not experience heartburn.  He still experiences nausea almost constantly.  He smokes pot to help with this and to make himself feel hungry so he can eat (he no longer feels hunger otherwise).  He gets very sick a lot.  He has been really sick for the last few days, experiencing diarrhea every couple of hours.  Yesterday it was so dark green as to be almost black.  Then he would just have yellow, watery stools.  He vomited several times yesterday what he described as "just stomach acid" which he says was tinged a light blue.  He has not had medical insurance for several years (I don't have it either, so I can't help with that).  He had hernia surgery at 17.  He also has a mole on his forearm that he has not been able to get checked - it has gotten bigger and fatter (he also has picked it off, making it worse).  He has trouble following doctors' nutritional advice or remembering to take medication or herbs given to him.  He doesn't listen to me (I studied Oriental Medicine), so it is limited what I can do to help.  I have been told by a naturopathic doctor that it sounds like gallbladder issues.  There is a history of gallbladder problems and removals in my family.  I would like him to keep his organs, so I want to find a way to help him help himself!  He has asked me to find out what I can.

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You might consider he has something common that develops in teens, and that is lactose or glucose intolerance.  Get him tested for that, there are pills he can take anytime he is about to eat a meal with milk or whatever in it, I think a rather inexpensive visit to a regular doc can take care of labwork.  On the gallbladder issue, if the family history includes someone having those problems in their 20s, then you can also address that with the doc.  Same thing with the mole.  But if going to a doc is really out of the question, you can go to the county health department in your town, since he has no insurance, and your son can be seen the same day as a walk-in at little or no charge to you.  I might add that if YOU would get health insurance, then in the Health Care Reform law that was passed last spring, it is going to set up a pool of insurance for folks who cannot afford insurance, and also it includes a section where "children" of parents can use their insurance until the age of 26 (and I'm not sure if they have to be in school), and I'm not sure when those parts of the law go into effect, you'll have to look that up.  Lastly, if he does have a gallbladder that needs to come out, you could make payment arrangements with any hospital that the county clinic might want to refer him to.  One more "home care" thing you can consider doing for him, that he WILL want to respond to, is if you would get one of those bread-making machines, and make him wheat bread and oat bread, bring it to him warm with a tub of butter, and if he'll eat that, it will help his digestion significantly, irregardless of what is wrong with his tummy.