Help Asap.Please!!?!
Question: Well Just Last Year The Doctor Told Me I Have Acid Reflux && It Horrible Because I'm Always.Feeling Sick With Heart Burn & Things Like That! Before I Learned I Had Acid Reflux..I Would Have A Horrible Burning Feeling In The Lower Part Of My Stomach When I Ate Or Tried To Eat & Because Of That I Stopped Eating..Alot & My Weight Dropped Very Low & Now A Year Later Its Happening Again I Been Feeling Really Weak,Nauseated, Heads Aches Off And On & I Sleep More In The Day And Hardly At Night And Sometimes When I Do Sleep..I Wake Up Feeling Cold But My Body Is Hott Its Really Wierd With The Cold/Hott Feeling..It Feels Like Something Is Pushing My Body Down So Its Hard To Get Up Or Move If I Tried To..I Went To The Doctor They Said Its Probly Just My Body Changing Since I've Changed My Diet But Personally I Think Its Something More Serious..Please Help ASAP If Anyone Can!!!
Answers: Well Just Last Year The Doctor Told Me I Have Acid Reflux && It Horrible Because I'm Always.Feeling Sick With Heart Burn & Things Like That! Before I Learned I Had Acid Reflux..I Would Have A Horrible Burning Feeling In The Lower Part Of My Stomach When I Ate Or Tried To Eat & Because Of That I Stopped Eating..Alot & My Weight Dropped Very Low & Now A Year Later Its Happening Again I Been Feeling Really Weak,Nauseated, Heads Aches Off And On & I Sleep More In The Day And Hardly At Night And Sometimes When I Do Sleep..I Wake Up Feeling Cold But My Body Is Hott Its Really Wierd With The Cold/Hott Feeling..It Feels Like Something Is Pushing My Body Down So Its Hard To Get Up Or Move If I Tried To..I Went To The Doctor They Said Its Probly Just My Body Changing Since I've Changed My Diet But Personally I Think Its Something More Serious..Please Help ASAP If Anyone Can!!!
I am sorry for your suffering. It sounds like you have an ulcer and are not being treated properly for it. Try drinking 2% (or whole) milk at least four times per day (6 oz. is a serving) and taking Nexium as recommended. Nexium is now OTC. These days, doctors have neither the time nor the incentive to investigate the symptoms that you explain to them. It is very unfortunate. We cannot expect them to know everything. Maybe they think we do, so they diagnose us based on the commonalities between what we tell them and the shortlist of common illnesses that would bring about these symptoms. That way, they appease our minds and preserve their "expert" status. But this approach is not appropriate, especially when the symptoms are unusual or unexplained. I applaud the doctor who would install Internet access in the exam room and boldly research my symptoms before making his/her diagnosis.
However, if you are or have been bulimic or are suffering from disordered eating, then be honest about it. Vomiting will wreak havoc on your GI tract. Consider this: if you go to sleep 2 hrs or less after eating, or drinking tea, coffee, soda, juice or alcohol -- and you have a acid reflux, guaranteed, you will wake up with the urgency to vomit. Seek counseling. But if you are not bulimic, anorexic, bulimarexic, etc..., then visit a GI specialist, which you should do anyway.
Meanwhile, avoid red crushed pepper, black pepper, mustard, hard liquor, acidic juices, soda and coffee. Eat a Tums three times a day if you're hesitant about nexium (be sure 2 follow directions for Nexium) .
Also, don't consume anything for at least 2 hrs before bedtime, not even water.
And, check out the links listed. The steadyhealth.com site, especially, may be enlightening to you.
Best of luck.
go see another doctor and get a second opinion