Re: Re: Nausea???

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I am soooo tired and sleepy I keep forgetting everything I want to write.

You should be tested for any stomach or intestinal infections and

inflammations. Your ESR and hormones should also be tested. Make sure you

don't have blood in your stool. Of course, it's not always visible to the

naked eye. Also, eat smaller meals (that is, when you can make yourself eat

at all) and drink smaller servings of water/liquids. My severe nausea

started in early 2004 after I had a dry cough with wheezing for weeks during

the fall of 2003. *That *occured after I went to the tropics in the summer

of 2003 and became sicker. I had taken liquid Flagyl because I had a

problem with diarrhea, which, like a slap on the face, continued despite the

antibiotic, which I believe played a HUGE role in destroying my health. I

took metronidazole along with tetracycline as part of *Helidac* for a

" gastric pathology " (not *H. pylori *of all things!) I was hesitant but

that gastro was intimidating and I was having so much distress and getting

nowhere so I finally gave in despite my fears of metronidazole. At that

time, I hadn't made the connection between taking Flagyl and the destruction

of my health. I only recently made that connection at the end of 2009

though a gastroenterogist in 2008 was convinced that the Flagyl caused a

flareup of Crohn's which another gastro had diagnosed me with in March

2005. By early 2007, she changed the diagnosis to IBS because of some

idiots, most of whom weren't even gastroenterologists, at Mt. Sinai.

Anyway, Flagyl aka metronidazole can cause candida overgrowth or worsening

of it if you already have it. Taking it along with antacids only makes it

worse. Please people, don't take antacids indiscriminately and don't

believe that they are harmless. Try something natural such as alo vera

juice or gel. One teaspoon mixed in water works for me, now that my acid

reflux is not as bad as it used to be.

I continued to have horrible nausea on and off until 2006 or so.

Oftentimes, it was accompanied by heavy menstrual bleeding with BIG clots

and LOTS of intense pain. Doctors were useless when it came to treating the

symptoms and managing the pain. I lost and regained 5 lbs. more than once

after the initial loss of 12 lbs. in early 2004. Later, at the end of 2006,

an ultrasound showed I had a gallstone. More recent findings include a

mildly enlarged liver and fatty infiltration of the liver and biliary duct

crystals and high cholesterol and triglycerides. I am scared to think it

but maybe I have PBC (primary biliary cirrhosis)? I had one gastro tell be

back in the fall of 2007 that I should get my gallbladder removed and that,

had I been a male patient, they would have removed it already! I hate the

misogyny prevalent in " modern " medicine. It stinks and reeks of Freudian

pseudo-science. Hysteria??!! WTF!!! Lawsuits ahoy!!!