Vomiting

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Permalink Reply by bbrussie on February 11, 2008 at 1:56pm

Have you had an upper endoscopy done to look for a physical cause? A year ago, I had unexplained vomiting, had and upper endoscopy then a barium swallow test and they determined that most of my stomach was herniated into my chest. I had a a Nissen Fundoplication to repair that. I really had no choice, and 9 months later, I started having IBS symptoms. Which is why I am here. And have basically been house-bound for 3 months.

Try another doctor. My first doctors (general practitioners and gastroenterologists) don't seem to have a clue or any compassion about the pain and discomfort. I have found a new doctor who CARES and is working with me.

I wish you well. Hope someone an give you a more definitive answer.

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Permalink Reply by bojo348 on February 12, 2008 at 12:34am

Thanks for you response. I have not had an upper endoscopy, although one was recommended by a hospital doctor. For some strange reason, after a lifetime of accepting all medical procedures without a qualm, I have to admit that over the last year or two I have shied away from anything invasive. This is very much a 'me' problem that I must find a way of overcoming. It goes very much against many long years of not worrying myself about these things.

Anyway, again my thanks. I hope you find a treatment that will enable you to have some contact with the outside world.

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Permalink Reply by bbrussie on February 12, 2008 at 7:50am

i completely understand the avoidance of invasive procedures. That's why I found a new doctor, my old gastro went immediately to the scopes, without doing any sort of blood or stool tests. My new doctor understands that I went through the wringer of EVERY kind of invasive test for 2 months to find — nothing. So he is ruling out anything by other tests he can first, before he calls for any new scopes. He also is helping me with anxiety and depression brought on by all of this.

I am working on the anxiety and trying to get out more. The weather here in frigid Iowa doesn't help, I can't wait for spring.

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Permalink Reply by bojo348 on February 12, 2008 at 8:13am

Thanks again for your follow up. Reading what you say makes me wonder if my recent and unwelcome nervousness of any invasive procedures is anxiety about the underlying IBS showing itself in a devious kind of way! While I do worry about emergencies while I am out I doubt if my open depression etc causes me as much suffering as yours.

It never ceases to amaze me what power the mind has over the body. It is because of this that I practice a fair amount of meditation. I find that helps a great deal. The more my mind is on something approaching an even keel the less trouble my assorted physical conditions cause me. I'll never be able to cure them but I can minimize their effects.

I have no experience of Iowa weather being UK bound, but here we are enjoying a preview of Spring. We are fortunate to live surrounded by trees. The birds are enjoying themselves with a lot of singing. All very pleasant; I don't doubt they are starting to feel a little amorous. In Spring a young man's fancy... and all that.

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Permalink Reply by bbrussie on February 12, 2008 at 8:25am

Just a note on Iowa weather. We're one of those flat agricultural states in the upper Midwest with no large bodies of water around to temper the climate. FREAKING hot and humid in the summer and BRUTAL cold and wind in winter. Currently 7º F with a wind chill of -3ºF. 8+ inches of snow on the ground. At least the sun is shining today. Winter is especially tough in that you can't just go out and walk around the block or to a park without risking frostbite. I notice a lot of people on these IBS blogs are from Saskatchewan, I think it's similar up there. I want to move somewhere warm!

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Permalink Reply by bojo348 on February 15, 2008 at 1:07am

I am sitting here in a very warm and snug little room (known as the pigsty, for good reason). Outside the temperature is above freezing. I just cannot imagine the kinds of temperature you write about, but I am starting to shiver in sympathy.

If there is a connection between IBS and cold weather living I would think it is a negative one. Don't your bowels freeze solid even at -29C?

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Permalink Reply by Flora on March 29, 2008 at 2:35am

do you take pain killers especially when you are hungry? it causes vomitting often.

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Permalink Reply by bojo348 on March 29, 2008 at 3:31am

Thank you Flora. I do take massive doses of pain killers but I cannot remember ever taking them on an empty stomach. It is always after eating. I sometimes wonder if the cocktail of ailments I have - which I would not have believed possible at one time - are at war with one another and the fighting causes problems such as vomiting.

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Permalink Reply by Flora on March 29, 2008 at 6:15am

or maybe your stomach is sensitive to painkillers if you take too much. a gastroentologist may see you and you may want to have an endoscopy taken.

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Permalink Reply by RobinaDee on March 29, 2008 at 5:42am

I have had an endoscope and found that I had a hiatal hernia. I also learned that the medication I was taking for typeII diabetes was causing a lot of stomach problem. Since I have lost about 130 lbs, that is no longer a problem, but I also had to have my bp meds changed because they caused stomach problems. I had GERD that nexium wasn't even touching and it went into acute, erosive esophogitis. they finally put me on Zegerid and limited what I ate, very strictly and I am back to normal after almost a year. Go see a gastroenterologist and ask for an endoscope. It's painless, you sleep through it, and it will tell the story. If you hiatal hernia is really bad, there is a laparoscopic procedure that can help. Good Luck.

Robin

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Permalink Reply by bojo348 on March 29, 2008 at 10:44am

Gee! I'm hearing of ailments I never knew existed. My doctor has put me down for a colonoscopy so I'm hoping that might reveal something that can be tackled relatively easily.

I do have to take an enormous dose of pain killers to make anything like a normal life possible. I had been on these for quite some time before the vomiting started. Please don't misunderstand me here. The vomiting is not a frequent thing. It just seems to happen when the pain is bad enough to crash through the effects of the pain killers.

Next month I will be going on a course of acupuncture for the pain. This worked wonderfully when I had the first course about this time last year. Unfortunately I enjoyed the release from pain so much that I overdid the walking. Bingo! Back to square one. C'est la vie.

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Permalink Reply by vars11 on April 11, 2009 at 6:39pm

When I was in high school I would get stressed out over things vomit alot in the mornings usually nothing came up and would cause very sever stomach pain pain in my back from the retching and also sometimes produce bloody sputim do to the over exertion of my stomach muscles and my throat being made raw from the bile....(sorry if to discriptive) but found out my ibs may have been to blame at the time they called it a ulcer of the blood that when I got very nervous My blood would act like a ulceritic type problem and make me ill physically like the stress was a paricite or something and I would become ill. Later I figuired it must have just been the onset of my ibs however I do not vomit as much as I use to was for about 2 yrs most every day now maybe once or twice a year. Its been around a year and half sense I had a problem with this. Sorry don't know how to help U with a cure but thought I'd at least let you know u aint alone.

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