Birth Control Forum - Weird Symptoms While On Birth Control

I forgot one final symptom: I get a feeling of having a full stomach after taking only a few bites of food. Tonight I had about 5 bites of a sub sandwich and I felt full, but I ate the rest of it involuntarily and i've been feeling full/sick for about 3 hours. Perhaps the sub just didn't agree with me, but I took some antacids anyway.

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Also, I took my problem to another health forum and someone suggested I may have something called gastritis, which is a swelling of the stomach of some sort, and it causes most if not all of my symptoms (unsure about the weight gain, but then again...Birth control).

This condition isn't fatal or life-threatening, so I won't worry about it right now. I'm going to wait and see if it subsides. If not then i'll either tell my mom to make me an appointment or i'll speak to a medical professional myself.

But I just don't want my mom spending money on me if all they're going to tell me is that I have a little stomach bug that will go away with some pepto-bismal or something - we aren't exactly rolling in the cash and my mom has tons of loans and a credit card to pay off. She needs all of her money, and I have no job (and also no way to get to one anyway), so I couldn't pay for it. I'm just stuck I suppose.

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ilovethebeach wrote:

the twinges of back pain, blood in stool, and the hernia/muscle/lump, arent good I wouldnt think.

i've only experienced two fits of back pain, one where I woke up and the entire left side of my back as well as my hip ached for about half an hour (when the mystery lump was still hurting me), and once this morning, and it was on the right side and just came and went in an instant - I don't have constant/chronic back pain. Sorry if I made it sound like that o.O

as for the blood...Well...I don't know if it was actually blood. This may sound disgusting so bear with me, but I had eaten something with red sauce earlier that day and I believe that's what I was seeing. And I don't know if this is anything threatening but when I used the bathroom a couple of days ago I noticed a white piece of something in my stool that looked like the top of a corn kernel. The only thing is that I haven't eaten corn in over 3 years. So I have no clue what it was.

Finally, my mom called a nurse practitioner about the painful lump and she said it was probably a pulled muscle and told me to take some ibuprofen motrin, and before I knew it the pain was gone. I can still feel the lump very easily, but there's no pain, even when I push down on it.

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I did some research (as I said) on this gastritis, and I looked for known causes...Only one really jumped out at me: yeast infection.

I've had my yeast infection since february, and about the time my symptoms began I was not itching or feeling the need to itch as much. Also, my trademark yeast "odor" seems to have diminished to a less potent, entirely different scent. Maybe because i'we been washing more thoroughly, but could my infection have evolved into a stomach condition?? And if so, why after so long? Why didn't it happen early during my yeast infection, if that is indeed the culprit?

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Well, it'll be pepto-bismal and tums for me until this clears up. But if I notice blood in my stool again i'll probably have to inform my mom. Even if she doesn't make an appointment, she can always ask about my condition first.

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Thanks you guys for your help. I'll keep you updated if there's anything to update Smile

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Scaredbaka