Why cant i eat

[roxysbabe17]

Hi there am trying this site to c if anyone can help me. Over a year and 9 months ago i contracted campylobacter, after a week of visiting my gp and being told i had gastroenteritis and being given three different sets of acid tablets which all made me even more sick, i was taken into the hospital 11 days later where they sent me home as it would be quicker to do a scope as an out-patient. A week later a letter arrives stating that i had indeed had food poisoning. My scope revealed that i had a hitaus hernia although the consultant didnt tell me this and said i had ibs and that was that. However, ive lived with ibs for years and i knew this was more than just ibs, so i had to write him a letter stating that i wasnt any better and i couldnt seem to manage eating food as my tummy kept reacting to it, i was in chronic pain constantly and was either being sick or feeling constantly sick. Eventually he referred me on to another gastro specialist, who confirmed i had gastritis, gerd, hitaus hernia of 2cm and ofcourse ibs. I have been taking acid tablets and sickness tablets for all this time and yet am still the same. If i eat food it takes 10 minutes for my tummy to react and 52hrs for it to get out my system by that time am so bruised and battered inside as my belly swells so that i look 9 months pregnant, this takes up 4 days and by then am shattered and i have to go thru it all again trying to eat. I gave up eating in march as i couldnt handle the sickness anymore and the damage i was doing to my tummy, i now live on tramadol for the pain and sometimes i end up in a&e for jabs as i cant control the pain. However, they just send me back home, why cant anyone tell me why i cant tolerate any kind of food and why do they keep telling me to eat small amounts frequently, why dont they understand that food is an alien to my body.
Please, please any advice would be grateful, even my gp says there isnt anything more they can give me or do for me.

[roxysbabe17]

Thank you so much for yr reply. I got taken into hospital on monday, my gastro consultant has done my bloods and i will be seeing a dietican today. Tomorrow he plans to give me another scope, seems to be the same tests over and over again. I live in hope this time he will do something more for me and different tests like the barium swallow, i will also mention the crohns diagnosis u spoke about.

Thank you very much for yr time in reading and answering my forum.

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
I am sorry to hear about all this. It would probably help if you took Omeprazole, antacid gels and probiotics (take these twice a day initially). I f you have IBS, then a hiatus hernia surgery will not help much. Raise the head end of bed. Do not lie down immediately after food.
It could be due to food allergy. Keep a stress diary. Log in the food intake and the symptoms as they appear. See if there is a correlation between a particular food item and symptoms.
Also Crohn's is very difficult to diagnose. Along with gut symptoms skin disorders and arthritis too are commonly seen with Crohn’s. An upper GI series using barium dye is done to see the condition of small intestines. The degree of involvement of the large and small intestine may vary from person to person.  A biopsy is the most confirmatory. An elevated ESR, low protein, minerals and iron in blood are the other findings in Crohn’s which may or may not be present. A recent advancement in Crohn’s diagnosis is video capsule endoscopy. This is one possibility you must seriously consider. Please discuss with your GI doctor. Take care!