does anybody have stomach problems?

[Applecore]

Does anyone have stomach problems.  I have pain in my stomach not abdomen.  Really bad pain after I eat.  Sometimes it takes a few hours and sometimes it hurts as I am eating.  I went to a M.D. holistic doctor and he took a lot of blood test and stool tests and said that I was allergic to almost everything I eat and said I had celiac disease and not to eat almost everything I eat.  Then my thyroid hit and I didn't do what he told me to do as I was fighting for my life.  Now I am ready to address the eating again so I went to another M.D. holistic doctor in Southern Md becauses he accepts Medicare and they are really expensive.  He looked at the tests the other doctor did and said to eat very limited amounts of the food check off rotating them every two week and four weeks and some of them I would never eat again.  He gave me probiotics and some silver spray in the mouth.  I then realized that I would need a nutritionist to help me to know how to eat.  I went to the nutritionist yesterday and she said that she had never seen the type of tests that the first doctor did and that you had to have a biopsy done to diagnose celiac.  $400 for her and I don't know if I have celiac or not.  I sure hope I don't.  That is why I am asking you all if anybody has stomach pain and what causes theirs.  Please if anybody has this problem let me know what is going on.  I am desperate as nobody understands and everybody is telling me something different.  Also does anybody have  problems at time with handling things.  I cried in the nutritionist's so upset that I couldn't hardly hold myself together.  Not knowing what is wrong and definitely don't want it to be
celiac disease has got me really unnerved.  Thanks for your help all of you.   lol linda

[Applecore]

I couldn't get mad or insulted as I apppreciate all the information that I get on this forum.  I do have a couple of questions though that I am going to call my doctor and ask.  I took a protonix yesterday and absolutely had no pain at all.  Could it be celiac if a pill can take away the pain?  Also how reliable are holistic doctors?  I trusted them but when the dietician said she didn't recognize the blood work that I had done and maybe I didn't have celiac, it really upset me and I at the moment, am a little disillusioned.  I will get better but right now am in shock.   The one holistic MD did say that I should have a endoscpy.  Thanks for the encouragement.   What do you think about a gastrologist, just to check all this out?  I would still like to go the holistic route, I think, because it heals instead of covering up.   Linda

[GravesLady]

Pain only when I am sick or from foods I have intolerance to.

Wouldn't you rather have celiac hopefully controlled by eating rather something else like ulcer or cancer or something where treatment is more aggressive.  We eat to live not live to eat.  ;)  Right(?)

In the beginning of all this thyroid, after RAI going from hyper to hypo, and lasting approx 2 years after getting on meds. I'd cry on a dime, about anything, everything, little things, dumb things, stupid things, you name it.  now I have graduated to Graves' rage controlled by anxiety meds. There is always something.  We'd be very lucky to get through life without something going on.  Regardless,  I consider myself lucky to be modestly healthy.  I have seen much worse.

Possibly could you be going to the wrong doctors and getting the run around, which sounds like costing you more in the long run, financially and health wise.  Maybe some specialist should be considered.

Don't get mad or insulted. I know its no fun being sick or not knowing whats wrong with our health. Just keep you chin up and keep searching for answers till you find one. You deserve an answer! Good luck.