stomach problems for years..anyone else?

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Registered: 08-12-2007
stomach problems for years..anyone else?
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Sun, 08-12-2007 - 4:43pm

I'm a 20yrold female and I've had stomach pains for as long as I can remember. When I was little I usually had to lay down on my right side in a ball after meals (mainly dinner) and cry because my stomach would hurt. I'd use the rest room and then lay back down trying to breath deeply until the pain went away. Twice a year, oddly around fall and spring time pretty much always about 6months apart I would wake up in the middle of the night with sever stomach pains. I'd be up for a few hours crying and it wouldn't go away until I threw up a few times. This continued until I was 16 when in august I came down with gallstones and then 7months later in March my appendix ruptured. Since then I don't wake up twice a year. However I still have stomach pains randomly thought the day or when I eat or have any alcohol. I actually hardly drink (I am only 20!) and I really never get drunk yet the next day I'll just be in a ton of pain.

I know I have acid reflux which mainly affects me at night and I take my pills regularly. I can tell the difference in the morning when I take them or not. I was wondering if anyone else has had this same problem or has known someone who has and if it's just something they/you had to deal with or if it could be something more. Considering it's been my whole life and nothing TOO major has happened I kind of think I'm just stuck with a sensitive stomach.

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Registered: 03-04-2005
Mon, 08-13-2007 - 8:02am

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Having stomach pain and issues for as long as you can remember doesn't sound right and I am curious as to what treatments and tests have been done. Growing up, you had to see doctor's for exams before certain school periods...did you ever mention your discomfort at these exams? I know that many Drs. dismiss kids and think they are just trying to get out of school, homework, etc., but surely your parents had you checked out?


The gallstones and ruptured appendix were probably just coincidence and would have happened even without your history of stomach pain.

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Registered: 08-22-2007
Wed, 08-22-2007 - 12:41pm
Bless your sweeeeet little heart! Just cannot imagine going thru that all your life...you're just a baby! It brings me some sense of comfort, to a small degree, to read stories like yours, though...I just turned 46 and have beautiful little girl that is about to start Kindergarten! I've had a tummy of steel all my life...the only reason I ever got sick was because I drank too much in my 20s and some in my 30s....had Lauren at 40...then when I was 42, I would get mildly queasey here and there...then finally in 2005, I had a EGD and Colonospy and was diagnosed with mild gastritis and IBS...no biggie they said, everyone has it they said! I felt fine on the Nexium, but then my daughter gave me a BAD tummy virus...omgosh...I just never really felt better after that...got a bacterial infection fr that, all the nauseau turned my tummy and gave me mild gastroparesis (slow stomach) that finally went away, but now I'm still on 2 Nexiums per day and Liquid Carafate...take something at night for the IBS too. I'll go along and things will be fine, then boom, it burns, it hurts or I'm queasey, it affects my energy levels. I have a busy job and a great little girl I want to be "animated" for...it's TOUGH. I've never prayed so much in my life. We have to keep the faith...as young as you are, you know to just drink lots of water, take vitamins, get proper rest and be smart about eatting...and you will be just fine! TAKE CARE! GOD BLESS! Glenda
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Registered: 07-16-2001
Thu, 08-23-2007 - 9:48pm

I can't help but hone in on the part about it hurting after you eat.