Stomach pains leading to panic attacks. Ulcer? Posted: 03-17-08 10:25am
Hi been having problems with my stomach
for 3 and a half months now and was
wondering if anybody was experiencing the
same things as me or had any info on what
i could do to help.
I have a dull pain in my upper abdomen
just below the bottom of my rib cage
almost all of the time and sometimes the
pain will be a gnawing/burning pain,
additional pains occur everynow and then
in the left/right lower abdomen areas. At
times i get really nauseous/dizziness and
what feels like a lump at the back of my
throat whcih makes me feel like i need to
be sick, but for some reason im not
vomitting. my stools were inconsistent at
the start, it was loose and in bits but
now as i have been eating a better diet
that seems to have got better, ive only
had dhiarrea* 3 times in the last 4
months.
I work as an electrician and so am up
early in the mornings to go to work, but
when i get up and go downstairs i get this
chill like feeling in my stomach and the
pain starts. I have to get a bus and a
train to get into work and this dosn't
help with the nausea, sometimes the pain
doesn't ease up by the time i get to the
station so i just go back home, sometimes
the pain isnt that bad i continue with the
journey, which is very unpleasent when
your stomach hurts. Usually when i get to
work and start working the pain eases up,
sometimes it doesn't and i go back home
but last time i went to go back home i had
a panic attack whilst getting on the
train. I couldnt work it out, ive never
been afraid like that and ive never been
travel sick or clostraphobic so why was i
panicking?
Ive been to the doctors about 7/8 times
and at first they diagnosed me with IBS
and so I went and asked a few people i
know who have IBS and they said the
symptoms wern't the same so i went back to
the Dr and she said it could be a stomach
ulcer so now I'm awaiting an endoscopy,
hopefully something treatable shows up so
I can get rid of this pain. It's so
frustrating.
since the panic attack i haven't been
going in to work and I haven't been going
out at all and as a 20 year old male its
annoying. Thanks for reading such a long
post and if anyone can help please reply.