I’m a 38 year old female. I’m going to try to explain this as easy as I possibly can. I’ve been having these symptoms since well, I was a baby. My mom says tho that this has been happening to me since I was a baby. She would notice I would spit up all the time, while dirtying my diaper, and I would cry while this was going on. My mom says it only happened maybe 3 or 4 times in my first year of life, but noticed as I got older, could talk and explain how I felt, that it would happen more and more. My earliest recollection of this was when I was 5 years old. I remember it very vividly because it happened while I was in school, kindergarten. My teacher found me lying on the bathroom floor in a fetal position, passed out. I’ll explain all my symptoms here in a little bit. I remember waking up, with her carrying me to the ambulance. It use to happen very infrequently when I was younger, maybe a few times a year. The older I got, the more and more this happened. Now I’m 38, and it’s happening every month multiple times a month. I’ve been to the hospital so many times for this. Everytime they’ve said it was just a stomach bug, or food poisoning. Even my family doctor is stumped. He don’t know what’s wrong with me, but knows it’s not normal. I can’t find answers ANYWHERE and it’s getting so much worse. I’m going to explain what happens to me, but I am going to forwarn you this is going to be very graphic, and contain pretty personal, disgusting stuff that some of you may not be able to handle if you have a weak stomach. I’m going to explain it, so stop reading now.......You’ve been forewarned......
Sometimes this weird medical condition starts off with me getting these very very weird burps. Now, this don’t happen every single time...Id say maybe 70% of the time I get this, these burps happen. The reason they are weird is because the best way to explain it is it’s like Im passing gas, but thru my mouth. I call them “stinky burps”. It’s the most disgusting thing EVER, but when I get this, I know what’s to come. Its like my warning alarm. Now sometimes like roughly 30% of the time, this step doesn’t even happen. So if I don’t get the stinky burps, I jump into the next phase which is my stomach, and intestines begin to hurt. The pain starts out dull, but then intensifies to serious/severe pain. This is when I go to the bathroom, and the hell begins.............For anywhere between a half an hour, or countless hours go by where I am uncintroabally vomiting, and going #2 simultaneously at th3 same time. I know the #2ing is too much info, but I need to explain this as best as possible in hopes I can find help! I’ve gone 38, almost 39 years with this, and haven’t gotten anywhere near a diagnosis. Also while I’m going the #2, it’s not like a little bit. It’s like A LOT! Like I never knew a human being could hold that much inside. Not only that but while all this is going on, I am sweating uncontroabally, like literally dripping sweat from every single body part. I try so hard to make myself better but even if I move the slightest, it makes me worse because while this goes on, I’m in the most severe/excruciating pain in my abdominal region. It’s all centered around my stomach and intestines. I manage sometimes to get up, go lay down in bed. While in bed I have to lay on my side, and I can’t move at all cuz it makes me worse. Most of the time tho I end up dragging myself out of bed Togo back to the bathroom, or even crawl back to the bathroom to vomit, and #2 all over again. This will go on for hours upon hours on end, sometimes even a day or two. Most of the time it ends up getting so bad that I pass out from the pain, and my husband or children call an ambulance. The times that has happened the doctors have no clue what’s wrong with me even till this very day have no idea what’s wrong with me. While I’m in the hospital they always put an IV in me, pump me full of morphine or Demerol, give me lots of different meds for nausea, and stuff. Sometimes I’ll end up getting better to where I can go home, and the symptoms won’t return, but most of the time once the meds they give me wear off, I get sick all over again. I will say sometimes when I get this it feels like I am dying the pain gets that bad, and I am one who can tolerate pain very well. I’ve had 3 children, all natural births, no medication, no nothing. To tell you more about how high my pain tolerance is, Years ago when my appendix ruptured, I went to my softball game and even played. So yeah, my pain threshold is high. All these years of long this, I have noticed the more I eat, the more this weird illness happens, so I really don’t eat like I should.....but here’s something even weirder.....even tho I don’t eat like I should, and we’ll hardly eat at all like maybe one meal a day max, or just much on a little something a few times a day.....even tho I hardly eat enough, and with how frequently I get this illness, I am overweight. I don’t know how I can be this overweight with all the times I get sick like this, and how infrequent I eat. This is happening several times a month now at the age I’m at, and is getting worse. Approximately 10 times a month, sometimes even more if I eat more. Like I said I do notice the more I eat, the worse it gets, and more frequent it happens. After this happens, it usually takes me quite a few days to recover. I get so physically drained everytime this happens. Sometimes now with how often this is happening, I don’t even fully recover, and it happens again. I’ve been lucky because thus far, it hasn’t happened when I’m suppose to be working. I just started this great job, and I’m petrified of getting this and not being able to go to work, or it happening while Im at work. Sometimes I don’t get the “stinky burps” that warn me, and go right into the mode where my abdominal are starts hurting, and then I get sick. I’ve seen several doctors, family physicians, ER doctors, and Im still undiagnosed. Can anyone help me shed some light on this? Does anyone know what this is, or have the same symptoms? I would appreciate any help anyone could give. Thankyou for reading this. Sorry it’s so graphic, but I needed to explain it in as much detail as possible in hopes Ill be able to finally find some answered after having this my whole life. Thanks again, and Happy Holidays!