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all around nausea with eating during/after
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all around nausea with eating during/after
by mike330, Oct 13, 2002 12:00AM
For about 4 years now I have had this problem; In general, I get nauseated while eating or have a very difficult problem in eating anything at all. Also nauseated if empty stomach, dry heaving yellow bile. Most of the time, it is often worse when my stomach is empty or I am hungry. In that case I often can only get a few bites down (which seem to almost get "trapped" at the bottom of my esophogus) and then I vomit newly chewed up food, not even digested. The first bites might be good, but not only do they travel down to the stomach VERY slow, but everything even begins to TASTE awful and almost with too much flavor (if that makes any sense at all). The days when I do feel up to the challenge to eat, it takes me so long to eat a meal (often taking breaks to avoid over clogging) and I have to go into a mental zone to withstand bringing on the initial convulsion of vomiting or else I will. The strange thing is after I have had food in my stomach for about 1hr, I can eat in a better manner and I am not so prone to nausea. Though even after I feel I can "fill up" if I push it too much then I vomit the material, sometimes all of the meals I had for the day still not fully digested. This is very frustrating! Have you ever heard anything like this at all? Where could I read about it or compare my symptoms? I have been to a gastro doctor and taken a barium swallow and the esophogus wasn't blocked or having problems. I have also tried taking prescription acid blockers but only for about 2-3 weeks before I was discouraged again because of no relief. Is there anything that can be done
Even if they are having trouble coming up with a diagnosis, there is no reason not to treat the symptoms in order to make you more comfortable. I went for years with guesswork and misdiagnosis. But I would absolutely ask for the emptying test. That will give the answer; I had endoscopy, upper gi, ct scan, ultrasound, bloodwork, you name it. None of those tests will correctly diagnose a stomach motility disorder.
Like I said, surf the net and you will find more info, and if the light bulb goes off in your head, it needs more research. Symptoms vary, not everybody has the same group of symptoms. Good luck.