Author Topic: Sucks when your body throws you for a loop. (Read 433 times)

GtoRA2 · « **on:** July 07, 2006, 12:18:50 PM »

Man sometimes Docs drive me nuts.

I have been sick for about 10 weeks now.

Started out with a pinched nerve so bad I couldn’t stand. Finally went in, and the prescribed 800 MG Motrin, and vicadin, and physical therapy.

That helped the neck but about 3 days after I started taking the Motrin I started getting sick every morning, usually waking up between 4 and 5 AM and puking.

If my stomach is empty I puke bile.

At first they thought it was just a reaction to the motrin (Common from what they say), but I had stopped taking it cause the neck pain was manageable and I hate puking.

I have not had Motrin or Advil or any vicadin etc since that first week.

So they send me to a stomach doc, he recommends the camera down the throat thing....... that showed a normal stomach.

My family has a history of Silent Gallbladder issues.

They do an ultrasound of my abdomen, all they find is a fatty liver (prolly caused by the rapid weight loss).

Now I am sitting here, I ok, I am only sick in the morning. ( No I am not pregnant, like I haven’t heard that ****ing joke from everyone witty mother****er including all the damn doctors.)

Maybe its Karma....

Only upside is I have gone from about 310LBS to 245 and falling.

I don't have a clue what to do now, the doctors are out of ideas as far as I can tell but I am going to have to keep bugging them.

Luckily my boss understands, but I miss lots of mornings when I am really sick.

They are now telling me it may be stress but the only thing stressing me out is being sick.....

I am getting pretty good at puking too............... gota think of the bright sides...

Mustaine · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:30:02 PM »

just found out a friend at work here had a gall bladder issue for almost a year a 1/2 before the doc's finally found out... turned out she was visiting NYC and went into the ER, and they found it out.

i'll ask her about the nausea

ramzey · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:32:02 PM »

Allergy?
How's your blood test?

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:41:52 PM »

Every test they have done has come back normal.

All my blood tests are normal. Healthy even.

The only thing they have found is the fatty liver.

They check for diabitese, I dont have it.

Thanks for the sugestions though guys!

Mustaine · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:50:20 PM »

girl at work who had gall bladder emoves says thats what it is for you.

all the symptoms, puking bile, pain in neck (her's was in shoulder) rapid weight loss from not eating...

she says go to an emergency room when you are having an "atack" and tell them all this.

when she did, within a week they were in there pulling out here gall bladder.

ramzey · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2006, 01:24:26 PM »

John, tell me one thing, have you try sleep half sitting?

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2006, 01:49:09 PM »

Like sitting up?

Not really cause that irritates my neck, one of the things I found out is I have an iffy vertibrea in my neck and my have ongoing nerve problems if I am not very carefull

Stringer · « **Reply #7 on:** July 07, 2006, 01:50:24 PM »

My brother-in-law had similiar, not exactly the same, but similiar symptons.

They thought it was gall bladder, and some if it was, but it was also his pancreas.

Long story short, it was a lucky thing the gall bladder acted up....it probably will add years to his life, as they found a problem with his pancreas and ended up taking half of it out, along with the gall bladder.

He found alcohol really made his symptons act up during this time.

Yeager · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2006, 01:51:25 PM »

From what I read here in this thread all you need is a good doctor. There is a reason(s) for whats happening to you, a good doctor can help you figure it out and fix it.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2006, 01:57:21 PM »

So far I have seen three docs, two where specialists and they can't figure it out.

Stringer, thats interesting, I guess I will start reading about the Pancreas.

Part of my problem may be Kaiser lol. So far they have kinda sucked.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07, 2006, 02:06:00 PM »

Do you always wake up and have to puke? Or can you be awake for a while and then puke.
I know a guy who's sleep apnea symptom was choking in his sleep, which would make him vomit.
You've got the tree trunk neck like me and TOB, so I bet you do have the apnea. You should look into a CPAP even if the vomiting stops.

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07, 2006, 02:12:22 PM »

long shot, but go to a DO (bone doctor) and make sure your spine is not out of whack. Pinched nerves or compressed nerves can show up in some really weird ways. Your stomcach is packed with nerves that control your poop chute as well as your puker.

Yeager · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2006, 02:24:09 PM »

speaking of vomit, has anyone seen that web photo from a few years back of the guy at a party doing high pressure vomit through both nostrils?

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2006, 02:53:07 PM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Do you always wake up and have to puke? Or can you be awake for a while and then puke.
I know a guy who's sleep apnea symptom was choking in his sleep, which would make him vomit.
You've got the tree trunk neck like me and TOB, so I bet you do have the apnea. You should look into a CPAP even if the vomiting stops.

I never wake up and have to puke that second, its usualy about a half hour later and suden.

I have been able to get up, take a pepcid pill and go back to sleep, and if I do sleep for about an hour I dont puke about 50% of the time. This only works well on weekends because I dont have time to go back to sleep on weekdays unless I get lucky and wake up at like 330 or 4AM.

I have thought about that CPAP stuff cause I am a big snorer lol. Does it force you to sleep on your back? (that would be good since sleeping on my stomach is bad for my neck.)

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2006, 02:56:07 PM »

You can sleep on your side or your back with a CPAP. If you sleep on your stomach it's probably because you're self-compensating for the apnea. Once you get the CPAP you'll sleep on your back as Jebus intended.