I would like to know what's going on with
me. History goes like this: I usually wake
up one day with lots of belching and start
to feel like I have a big stomach...
Everything would be fine until I make a
strange move and then I have a terrible
pain in my back. I think it could be the
air in my stomach that travels around and
comes behind my ribs in my back, but it is
quite violent... sometimes, I cannot sit
or stay in one position (normal sitting
position). Each time I burp it's going to
ease the pain so much... until two minutes
later when I feel bloated again... I have
not found any parallel yet with any type
of food that I eat since I never know in
advance when the crisis is going to occur.
I might actually notice some relationship
with constipation... I have been treated
for that when I was younger by the way,
with laxatives.
I have had an Upper GI that came out
negative six months ago. I have been
taking Zantac and Nexium, but I cannot
tell if it helped or if I just never had a
crisis just because... And I don't like
the idea of diagnosis something by taking
medicine and see if it works, so I stopped
it. I have a pretty stressful life (well,
maybe that's how I make it:)) and I
assumed I was constipated. So I started
the natural way by paying attention to
eating lots of fibers. It seemed to work
and then I went for a really important and
stressful business trip. When I came back
last week, I started a severe cold
(nothing related to constipation of
course, ha!) and I started a
mini-belching/stomach pain crisis that
seems under control yesterday. I did not
get a chance to pay attention to the
fibers during that trip so I wanted to
know if that provoked the crisis. I can
live with paying attention to fibers, but
it seems hard to believe that if I forget
to do so for less than a week, I am going
to pay the consequences of it for sure...
Saying that, I would like to know if I
should worry about getting an endoscopy
and coloscopy?
Thanks for you help guys... Digestion
problems are not fun and can poison life
no matter how small they are:)
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sillyakchick
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Posted: 04-30-07 21:26pm
You indicate that you experience referred
pain to your back. This makes me think of
possibly a gall bladder problem or an
ulcer problem. The ulcer can cause
referred back pain anywhere it occurs.
The gall bladder would be more localized
to the right side, or just under the
xyphoid process. The way to diagnose
these would be with an ultrasound or
another upper GI.
