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Morning nausea(not pregnant) fatigue,loss of appetite
I really need some help with this. For about 4 weeks I have been having severe nausea from the time I get up till around 1 or 2 in the afternoons. I have no energy, I have to make myself eat( feel more like eating late in the evening) I DO have a history of IBS ( diareah / constipation ) I have some discomfort in the upper abd.The worst part is the nausea and lack of energy. I feel sometimes if I don't lie down , I will just pass out. I have been off work for a month now ( worry about job doesn't help problem) I have had several tests done, am going back to dr. tomorrow for liver test. So far they have found nothing. I know I am not crazy, but after a while, with no name to put with this, it is making me crazy. I have seen others post on here with same symptoms, but the post was in archives of last year. I looked for answers ( Piper123 had same symptoms 8-6-06 ) didn't see any. Wish I could get in touch with anyone that has gone through this and is feeling better ( need to know there is light at the end of the tunnel) Please respond anyone.
thank you
trixb
thank you
trixb
I have suffered from this for years, and ive found a few answers. Firstly, my lethargy was due to severe B12 deficiency, (which I believe was a major factor in developing a rather life crushing anxiety "disorder"). Since taking B12 on a regular basis I am almost back to myself. The morning sickness however I have only managed to control through diet. I still get it, but it's not as bad as it was. If I don't eat anything after 5 pm, after a few days, I seem to get back to normal. However, this is just a help rather than a cure. I am still trying to work out what is causing it. I'm pretty sure I am lactose intolerant, and staying off the dairy products has been a great help. Also, not eating after 5pm has helped me lose 14 kilos so a bit of a bonus. I almost want to put it down to anxiety, or at least the meds they give to treat you.. and may I add.. they cause more problems than the problem it's self, in my humble opinion. I find I have more morning sickness when in a stressful situation than say, when Im staying at my mum's doing nothing all day ;-) I also feel it could be an airbourne issue. Look up geo engineering, but that's a whole different subject. But, talking about anxiety, and those terrible meds that I was on for years.. Hypnotherapy guys! I have not only used self hypnosis to almost completely cure my panic attacks (not had a big one in years) I am off SSRI's (in my case, creating more symptoms than the problem I was trying to fix!) , but I am now a hypnotist and am studying hypnotherapy at an advanced level. Please don't confuse "hypnotist" with cheap magician in a back alley bar in Corfu ;-) It's actually a science, and for some a form of entertainment, should one want to be a puppet in a stage show. Therapy and stage shows are two very different things, but sadly fall under the same banner of hypnosis.. for a want of a better term. I was so fed up with being pushed mind numbing drugs by the docs, all because the pharma companies want to make money, and I stumbled across self hypnosis. It's unbelievably easy and you don't need to go paying thousands of dollars for cheaply made DVD's on even cheaper made websites! This is not an advert BTW!! ;-) There is a wealth of books on the subject, but every quack has had a shot, so I recommend The Linden Method, Paul McKenna, Igor Ledochowski, and Cal Banyan. I hope this has been of help to some, and feel free to give me your feedback. Have a happy, pleasant, peaceful and healthy day :-) Aaron Benjamin
I am also glad to know I'm not the only one. I believe I'm the "winner" here with my illness starting 20 years ago, out of the blue, like a flu. I call it "the Monster" morning nausea, fatigue and lethargy. After 2.5 years my GP put me on Zoloft which worked miraculously for 7 years. I slowly weaned myself off it but when the symptoms came back suddenly, the Zoloft no longer worked. Went on and off various SSRI's but no luck. I read that 85percent of serotonin is manufactured in the gut so my docs have always looked for a serotonin answer.
I've had every GI test known to man, literally. A full work up at Columbia Presbyterian in 2002. Massachusetts General was no help. The best place for gastroparesis is temple university hospital in Philadelphia. They are experts in diagnosing gastric emptying, lactulose breath tests, endoscopes, etc although don't expect any hand-holding. I even had a full blood workup at Cleveland clinic to sleuth out mitochondrial disorders and other esoteric things, to no avail. By the way, "pro-biotics" are a waste of money. Be sure to check out skeptical or quack-watch websites for any naturopathic or alternative treatments you are tempted to try. Early on in my illness, befor I knew what quacks they are--even though they may be well-intentioned--I tried a naturopath who took me off all fruit, dairy, wheat, etc for eight months. I was down to 130 lbs and looked like a cancer patient. My wife made me eat a quart of ice cream for dinner and that was the end of alternative docs !
There's a saying, "if alternative medicine worked, it would be called "medicine". Britain has been fighting homeopathic quacks for years and now it is illegal in Britain to practice homeopathy. It is not helpful for sick people like us to be led down the primrose path, money falling out of our pockets along the way. Sorry for the rant but it's my pet peeve for the most vulnerable among us to be taken advantage of by those unscientific vultures.
Anyway, I now have a few tools in the toolbox. I discovered by accident that Percoset helps with the nausea. This is counterintuitive since it can cause nausea in most people. Reglan also helps, it's an antiemetic like zofran. Remeron seems to work in the background, it's an antidepressant. By the way I have never suffered from depression although I get depressed from being so sick for so long. When all else fails I can take a hydromorphone suppository or tablet which is dilaudid or morphine, to get through an event.
I also have had daily or near daily migraines for 14 years. I tired injections now work for that 90 percent of the time. Also steroid packs, dexamethasone helps but can only take it every three weeks. I meant to say Imitrex injections above, sorry my spell check broke it.
I've tried all kinds of diets including gluten free for a month.
I have severe IBS constipation with lots of sweating in the mornings along with the nausea. I control the constipation with a combination of Miralax and Metamucil.
I have a great GI doc in Hamden, CT at gastroenterology of Connecticut.
Much appreciation to the woman above who suggested Dysautonomia, I'm going to check that out next.
In closing, you are not crazy, you are not a hypochondriac, you are not alone. Get a good spouse and treat them like gold. Hope this helps.
I've had every GI test known to man, literally. A full work up at Columbia Presbyterian in 2002. Massachusetts General was no help. The best place for gastroparesis is temple university hospital in Philadelphia. They are experts in diagnosing gastric emptying, lactulose breath tests, endoscopes, etc although don't expect any hand-holding. I even had a full blood workup at Cleveland clinic to sleuth out mitochondrial disorders and other esoteric things, to no avail. By the way, "pro-biotics" are a waste of money. Be sure to check out skeptical or quack-watch websites for any naturopathic or alternative treatments you are tempted to try. Early on in my illness, befor I knew what quacks they are--even though they may be well-intentioned--I tried a naturopath who took me off all fruit, dairy, wheat, etc for eight months. I was down to 130 lbs and looked like a cancer patient. My wife made me eat a quart of ice cream for dinner and that was the end of alternative docs !
There's a saying, "if alternative medicine worked, it would be called "medicine". Britain has been fighting homeopathic quacks for years and now it is illegal in Britain to practice homeopathy. It is not helpful for sick people like us to be led down the primrose path, money falling out of our pockets along the way. Sorry for the rant but it's my pet peeve for the most vulnerable among us to be taken advantage of by those unscientific vultures.
Anyway, I now have a few tools in the toolbox. I discovered by accident that Percoset helps with the nausea. This is counterintuitive since it can cause nausea in most people. Reglan also helps, it's an antiemetic like zofran. Remeron seems to work in the background, it's an antidepressant. By the way I have never suffered from depression although I get depressed from being so sick for so long. When all else fails I can take a hydromorphone suppository or tablet which is dilaudid or morphine, to get through an event.
I also have had daily or near daily migraines for 14 years. I tired injections now work for that 90 percent of the time. Also steroid packs, dexamethasone helps but can only take it every three weeks. I meant to say Imitrex injections above, sorry my spell check broke it.
I've tried all kinds of diets including gluten free for a month.
I have severe IBS constipation with lots of sweating in the mornings along with the nausea. I control the constipation with a combination of Miralax and Metamucil.
I have a great GI doc in Hamden, CT at gastroenterology of Connecticut.
Much appreciation to the woman above who suggested Dysautonomia, I'm going to check that out next.
In closing, you are not crazy, you are not a hypochondriac, you are not alone. Get a good spouse and treat them like gold. Hope this helps.
Trixb,
These are my EXACT symptoms from four years ago and it turned out I had (have?) gastroparesis. Basically what this means is that, for some unknown reason, my stomach muscles are partially paralyzed and I digest food at half the rate that normal people do. This, from what I understand, causes the food to actually begin to go bad in my stomach and/or for my stomach to get so used to not being empty that I have severe nausea when it is (never been 100% sure which). The way that this was discovered, for those of you who might want to be tested for it, was by me eating a radioative egg sandwich (yes, really, I'm not kidding) and then they took scans of some sort (I can't remember what type) over two hours to see how fast my stomach digested the food. (Also, it's amusing to see people's reactions when you tell them you ate a radioactive egg.) This is how they discovered that it takes me almost double the amount of time to digest food (so, if it would normally take someone an hour to digest a sandwich, it would have taken me two). This was actually shockingly easy to fix, although it did mean having to be careful for a while: I had to take metoclopramide a half hour before every meal for a while (it's been so long I can't remember how long I took it; at least six months I think). After that, I began to slowly take myself off it and now have barely, if any, nausea in the mornings. If you want more in-depth information, I would suggest googling it.
Also, I would highly suggest that you do what *you* think is best and don't let your doctors bully you into something that you don't feel comfortable with. Trust your gut and do the tests you want done first; you can always go back and try the other things later. If your doctor is bullying you GET ANOTHER DOCTOR. That is a doctor that doesn't have your best interested in mind and might even make things worse. I let my doctor talk me into accepting a diagnosis, despite my huge misgivings and repeated attempts to tell my doctor that I really didn't think I had the problem she thought I had, and started taking acid reflux medication. This was probably one of the absolute worst things she could have done as it slowed my digestion down ever more and made it so that I was extremely sick 24/7 for over a month, until I was finally diagnosed with gastroparesis and could start treating it. (Personally, I found my current--amazing and brilliant and kind--doctor by asking the people at the *office* who they went to go see. If you don't know where to start looking for one, find a larger practice if you can and ask the people who work there who they go see.)
I really hope that this helps someone else. Either way, I hope that you eventually figure out what is wrong and hope that you get better.
TL;RD: Look into getting tested for gastroparesis. Testing for it is time consuming but not painful and it will be amusing to tell people you ate a radioactive egg. Also, don't let any doctors bully you into anything. Get second opinions. Or even third and fourth ones. IF THEY ATTEMPT TO BULLY YOU, FIND A NEW DOCTOR! They are not a doctor with your best interests in mind. If your doctor's office as multiple doctors, ask the people who work there who they go see.
These are my EXACT symptoms from four years ago and it turned out I had (have?) gastroparesis. Basically what this means is that, for some unknown reason, my stomach muscles are partially paralyzed and I digest food at half the rate that normal people do. This, from what I understand, causes the food to actually begin to go bad in my stomach and/or for my stomach to get so used to not being empty that I have severe nausea when it is (never been 100% sure which). The way that this was discovered, for those of you who might want to be tested for it, was by me eating a radioative egg sandwich (yes, really, I'm not kidding) and then they took scans of some sort (I can't remember what type) over two hours to see how fast my stomach digested the food. (Also, it's amusing to see people's reactions when you tell them you ate a radioactive egg.) This is how they discovered that it takes me almost double the amount of time to digest food (so, if it would normally take someone an hour to digest a sandwich, it would have taken me two). This was actually shockingly easy to fix, although it did mean having to be careful for a while: I had to take metoclopramide a half hour before every meal for a while (it's been so long I can't remember how long I took it; at least six months I think). After that, I began to slowly take myself off it and now have barely, if any, nausea in the mornings. If you want more in-depth information, I would suggest googling it.
Also, I would highly suggest that you do what *you* think is best and don't let your doctors bully you into something that you don't feel comfortable with. Trust your gut and do the tests you want done first; you can always go back and try the other things later. If your doctor is bullying you GET ANOTHER DOCTOR. That is a doctor that doesn't have your best interested in mind and might even make things worse. I let my doctor talk me into accepting a diagnosis, despite my huge misgivings and repeated attempts to tell my doctor that I really didn't think I had the problem she thought I had, and started taking acid reflux medication. This was probably one of the absolute worst things she could have done as it slowed my digestion down ever more and made it so that I was extremely sick 24/7 for over a month, until I was finally diagnosed with gastroparesis and could start treating it. (Personally, I found my current--amazing and brilliant and kind--doctor by asking the people at the *office* who they went to go see. If you don't know where to start looking for one, find a larger practice if you can and ask the people who work there who they go see.)
I really hope that this helps someone else. Either way, I hope that you eventually figure out what is wrong and hope that you get better.
TL;RD: Look into getting tested for gastroparesis. Testing for it is time consuming but not painful and it will be amusing to tell people you ate a radioactive egg. Also, don't let any doctors bully you into anything. Get second opinions. Or even third and fourth ones. IF THEY ATTEMPT TO BULLY YOU, FIND A NEW DOCTOR! They are not a doctor with your best interests in mind. If your doctor's office as multiple doctors, ask the people who work there who they go see.
btw i had gullbladder pain with this, extreme fatigue is arms and legs, horrendous stomach problems, ripping tearing sensations in upper and lower abdomen. had all the tests done ultra sound, endoscopy, colonoscopy, liver test, blood, test, automimmue, thyroids, ect all negative. I literally wanted to die i felt so horrible everyday. Its super hard to get a diagnosis unless you get a laproscopy, but it's super easy to try and do the bc method yourself.
i had this, it ended up being endometriosis. after 3 months of stopping my period and continuous birth control (nortrel) my symptoms began improving
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