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Hey guys I am new to the forum. However I am not new to a problem that seems to have escalated over the past two weeks. In 2009 (Turned 20 Years old) it all started with me being woken up at 3AM with pain in my abdomen and a strong urge to vomit and have a bowel movement. It was at that time the worst vomiting event that I have experienced. From this point on I encountered “episodes” that I will hopefully figure out what they are.
It all starts more or less the same and has only increased in numbers. 95% of them happen when I am sleeping. I am woken up, feeling really horrible with sweating and pain in my abdomen and the feeling to vomit and have a bowel movement. However only three of them actually ended up with vomiting. The rest have me feeling like I am going to die. I get the chills, feel like I need to use the bathroom, but I am never able to use the bathroom. I have passed out a few times due to this with my family finding me sleeping on the bathroom floor. The longest episode lasted from 1AM to 7:30AM. I have had on average 10 to 15 episodes a year. I have used most of my sick days strictly for this reason. After most meals, I would get nauseated. Nothing too severe.
I went to a GI and he stated that it is IBS. Yet I do not agree with him.
Fast forward to two weeks ago. I had felt really fatigued for most of the afternoon. I had to cancel on a friend to hang out. I burped a lot and it tasted really bad. I eventually went to sleep, 2 hours later I woke up and ran to the bathroom, initially had diarrhea (Which I get 3 to 5 times a day since 2009) but quickly escalated to chills, shivering and loss of feeling in my limbs. I drank as much water as I could thinking I was becoming dehydrated. I eventually admitted defeat and sat beside the toilet. Which minutes later I vomited. The following day I didn’t feel hungry at all. the day after that I ate normally. I kept feeling fatigued after eating anything. fast forward to wednesday I had to end a trip early due to feeling like I was going to pass out.
I also tend to lose train of thought, get dizzy and space out. All of which I usually never have. I am a well focused person. It has me not feeling like myself. I even walked into the endcap of a pathmark while shopping and felt really embarrassed. I have spaced out when driving that scares the living... well s* out of me.
The next day was exactly 7 days from the vomiting episode. I started the day out ok, ate breakfast, then about an hour I lost energy again. I had to once again end a trip early, as soon as I got home I was having pain in my knees, lower right side of my abdomen (felt like I was being stabbed) and I had a fever. I couldn’t go to sleep until 6AM the next morning as I was in so much pain. I was very close to going to the ER. From this point on, I had absolutely no appetite. I also went from having 3 to 5 bowel movements a day to nothing. I did eat a few things each day but 45 minutes to an hour the following would occur. Start getting pain in my knees, pulsating pain in my lower right abdomen and getting body aches. It would get progressively worse then hours latter start to taper off.
after 5 days of this I finally went to a new GI doctor. He said that my symptoms aren’t “atypical of IBS” but he couldn’t completely rule it out. He pushed on certain points of my abdomen and I had immense pain on my lower right side and right on top of my belly button. He ordered a blood test (CBC 42A, ESR 45377W and a Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (14)) he also ordered a Bowel Study and a Endoscopy. He said that my arthritis in the knees could be a “Auto immune response” to my GI tract. But he wants to see if it is “a chicken or the egg” either it is the GI tract causing the arthritis or the other way around.
Based on a lot of information that I had read up it is starting to sound a bit like Crohn’s Disease. I would like to bounce this information around the forum to see what you guys think. I will report on what the doctor has determined is the problem. For the “Constipation” he told me to drink Magnesium Hydroxide, which I did and seems to work, however I still don’t think it solved anything. I still have a burning sensation across my abdomen. I also still get the knee pain and pain in my lower right abdomen.
It all starts more or less the same and has only increased in numbers. 95% of them happen when I am sleeping. I am woken up, feeling really horrible with sweating and pain in my abdomen and the feeling to vomit and have a bowel movement. However only three of them actually ended up with vomiting. The rest have me feeling like I am going to die. I get the chills, feel like I need to use the bathroom, but I am never able to use the bathroom. I have passed out a few times due to this with my family finding me sleeping on the bathroom floor. The longest episode lasted from 1AM to 7:30AM. I have had on average 10 to 15 episodes a year. I have used most of my sick days strictly for this reason. After most meals, I would get nauseated. Nothing too severe.
I went to a GI and he stated that it is IBS. Yet I do not agree with him.
Fast forward to two weeks ago. I had felt really fatigued for most of the afternoon. I had to cancel on a friend to hang out. I burped a lot and it tasted really bad. I eventually went to sleep, 2 hours later I woke up and ran to the bathroom, initially had diarrhea (Which I get 3 to 5 times a day since 2009) but quickly escalated to chills, shivering and loss of feeling in my limbs. I drank as much water as I could thinking I was becoming dehydrated. I eventually admitted defeat and sat beside the toilet. Which minutes later I vomited. The following day I didn’t feel hungry at all. the day after that I ate normally. I kept feeling fatigued after eating anything. fast forward to wednesday I had to end a trip early due to feeling like I was going to pass out.
I also tend to lose train of thought, get dizzy and space out. All of which I usually never have. I am a well focused person. It has me not feeling like myself. I even walked into the endcap of a pathmark while shopping and felt really embarrassed. I have spaced out when driving that scares the living... well s* out of me.
The next day was exactly 7 days from the vomiting episode. I started the day out ok, ate breakfast, then about an hour I lost energy again. I had to once again end a trip early, as soon as I got home I was having pain in my knees, lower right side of my abdomen (felt like I was being stabbed) and I had a fever. I couldn’t go to sleep until 6AM the next morning as I was in so much pain. I was very close to going to the ER. From this point on, I had absolutely no appetite. I also went from having 3 to 5 bowel movements a day to nothing. I did eat a few things each day but 45 minutes to an hour the following would occur. Start getting pain in my knees, pulsating pain in my lower right abdomen and getting body aches. It would get progressively worse then hours latter start to taper off.
after 5 days of this I finally went to a new GI doctor. He said that my symptoms aren’t “atypical of IBS” but he couldn’t completely rule it out. He pushed on certain points of my abdomen and I had immense pain on my lower right side and right on top of my belly button. He ordered a blood test (CBC 42A, ESR 45377W and a Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (14)) he also ordered a Bowel Study and a Endoscopy. He said that my arthritis in the knees could be a “Auto immune response” to my GI tract. But he wants to see if it is “a chicken or the egg” either it is the GI tract causing the arthritis or the other way around.
Based on a lot of information that I had read up it is starting to sound a bit like Crohn’s Disease. I would like to bounce this information around the forum to see what you guys think. I will report on what the doctor has determined is the problem. For the “Constipation” he told me to drink Magnesium Hydroxide, which I did and seems to work, however I still don’t think it solved anything. I still have a burning sensation across my abdomen. I also still get the knee pain and pain in my lower right abdomen.
