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What is wrong with me?!?!

kier5437
  • By kier5437 · 3:12 am
  • 1 reply
  • Let's just say that I have gone through much more than a 22 year old should ever have to deal with. About 2.5 years ago I woke up with severe pain right under my sternum. The severe pain induced vomiting ...

Jake

shan789
  • By shan789 · October 12, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • I took Jake to see the surgeon on Wednesday, and he admitted him to the hospital right away. After many test, the upper scope showed he had sever gastritis, and a very bad stomach infection. He ended ...

WHAT SHOULD I DO...

Gailj
  • By Gailj · October 9, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • I AM SCHEDULED TO HAVE A GASTRIC PACEMAKER PLACED ON MY 45TH BIRTHDAY, NEXT WEDNESDAY. I AM HAVING 2ND THOUGHTS, I AM AFRAID IT WONT WORK. I AM AFRAID OF INFECTION AND JUST AFRAID OF HAVING ANOTHER SURGERY ...

Going to the surgeon to discuss options for colonic inertia.

hopenpeace420
  • By hopenpeace420 · October 8, 2008
  • 16 replies
  • Hi everyone, well I'm headed to the colon and rectal surgeon to dicuss my last options for my colonic inertia in two more days. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or questions that I should ...

Hirshspungs/Neuronal Intestinal Displaysia

td63076
  • By td63076 · October 7, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • Hi, my name is Tara and I have a 6 year old son that was born with a birth defect. His first stool was late and from there, he continued with constipation, swelling of the abdomen, feverish, lack of appetite ...

A waste of money

JoAllison
  • By JoAllison · October 6, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • I hate it when I meet with people who say they can help me and after I've met with them, it becomes obvious I know more than they do. And, in this last case that though he asked for a three day food diary ...

Tweaked my back...

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · September 27, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • Well, if it's not one thing it's another, isn't it? LOL I bought a new crock pot the other day; got it home and went to pick it up to show my daughter and.... OUCH!!! It hurts!!! Not like I haven't tweaked ...

GP & IBS-C

Trixie617
  • By Trixie617 · September 24, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • At my recent follow up with my pcp she said I appear to have GP & IBS-C... How can you tell one from the other? I know that there are people on this site that have mentioned having both -- I was under ...

My supplements & whatnot as of 9/08

JoAllison
  • By JoAllison · September 24, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • I'm having a good week , I've had three days with no GERD pain - though it's back this evening, lower level. It's been about two weeks since I've had a bloating episode or constipation, and over two weeks ...

Excited & Sad

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · September 23, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • Well, I did it!!! I got the tattoo that I had been wanting for the past ten years. It is sooooooo cool. I just updated my photo to show my new tat; although with my fibromyalgia and etc.... it hurts quite ...

Need Doctor recommendations and advice

AnnieJ
  • By AnnieJ · September 21, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Hi All, I am new to the group. I have been having some horrible symptoms and I have been undiagnosed for 7 months. I am at my wits end with Doctors. I am looking for top recommended doctors at Cleveland ...

Frustrated with One set-back after another

Rashel
  • By Rashel · September 19, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • I don't even know where to start. I'm frustrated. I found this group and it seems like I've found the answers to my problems. Its like I'm reading my life worded by others. Its an incredible feeling ...

Finally an appt. at surgeons office

shan789
  • By shan789 · September 18, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • Jake hasn't gotten better. The phenagren seems to have stopped working. He vomited most of yesterdsy, and is having more drainage from his cecostomy. So, I called yesterday, and lied a little I told them ...

latest update

Eierannach603
  • By Eierannach603 · September 17, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • I know it's been forever. I have been reading posts, praying and thinking of all of you. I just haven't had a free moment. Things are going by unbelievably well. I did have an issue with vomiting this ...

Okay, now I'm sick

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · September 13, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • Woke up this afternoon (wow, I finally got some sleep!!!), and now I'm sick... cough again, sore throat, stuffy nose, fatigue... some normal stuff, but more dramatic... Lying down today, but for different ...

Still sick

shan789
  • By shan789 · September 12, 2008
  • 12 replies
  • It's been 3 weeks and Jake doesn't seem to getting better. He has been vomiting off and on since his Mickey button, for his cecostomy, was placed. We have been to the Dr. office and ER a lot in the past ...

What now!?!

Trixie617
  • By Trixie617 · September 11, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • Hi all - Just got in from the GI & I am disappointed beyond words. She pretty much decided that I am doing okay. She said & I quote: "I have patients that are doing so much worse than you." I am sorry ...

Changes

JoAllison
  • By JoAllison · September 7, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • There have been changes since the stuff I transferred to that original entry. I'm still trying to live the best life I can. I still don't have it as bad as many - never developed the vomitting symptom ...

At First

JoAllison
  • By JoAllison · September 7, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • I decided to take some of this stuff out of my profile & start a basic journal with it as it's changed since I started. This initial entry will have the stuff I took out of my profile. I know right now ...

Severe Global Colonic Inertia-suffering terribly

JCatGuy
  • By JCatGuy · September 7, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • Hello, I've been in and out of so many GI MD offices, ER's and hospitalizations in the past 1 3/4 years that it sickens me to even think about worse yet, I'm heading right back. Living in the outer boroughs ...

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