Been sick

I've been very sick over the last 2 days.  I do have a long stricture, but the discomfort and pain feels like it's more in my stomach area, with gnawing pain and feels almost like an uncomfortable hunger pain.   I have a lot of nausea,  I also have an acid taste in my throat with a lot of belching, but haven't been able to vomit.  Don't know if I should go to ER with this or ride it out?.  I do not have obstruction pain which is far more severe, but this is making me feel very sick.  I do pass little bits of diarrhea, and strings of mucous in between, but lately that is all I've been passing. 

You are experiencing gastric esophageal reflux, which is really awful. I don't know what the ER could do for you. You can try taking some antacids, sleep with your head elevated...is it possible you are obstructed higher up than before?

Yesterday, I tried Zantac. It may have helped a little but not enough. Just now I took prevacid but I don't like to take it regularly because it causes my heart to race. Wish me luck that it will work for me. I decided to not go in tonight, but will go in possibly tomorrow if I am still feeling this way. An appointment with my doctor takes too long, and then they send me for tests which sometimes takes weeks or months.

Thanks, I spent the last 6 hours in ER. The doctor said all my markers point to stomach inflammation with esophagal reflux. From what they tested, there didn't seem to be any obstructions?. They then told me to make an appointment with my GI to check further in to the stomach and esophagus. ER was pretty thorough on all the basics, and from how I feel, surprisingly, it doesn't make sense that so many things can be so right on those tests, even when I sometimes feel like I'm ready to fall over.

Then I ended up being told I cannot take prevacid once in a while, but need to take it all of the time and that it will heal the stomach inflammation.

I've had D and double D every day for the last 35 years. When I had my surgery, I figured, at last I'll finally see a normal bowel movement. To my disappointment, it never happened because when they removed the end section of the small intestine, it was replaced by another type of diarrhea, bile acid diarrhea, which is with me several times a day, and can disrupt my life just as bad as far as the runs go. How do you tell ER that sometimes bile acid diarrhea which feels very acidic, can be as nasty as crohn's diarrhea?. One can burn your butt out, and so can the other, provided they are bad enough. LoL Too bad though, because sometimes surgery is the answer, it can be beneficial if you are told ahead about the bile issue stuff, you are prepared for it, if it should happen. Not everyone suffers this side effect of surgery. I was never told by any of the doctor's or surgeons before hand, so it was a surprise.

Sure did try bile binders, and it does work to stop the diarrhea, but because of the long stricture, it gives me trouble because it is binding and blocks the area up.


Wish there was something else to try to minimize the scar tissue.

Thanks for your support and help.

ITA with Gumby.

$2660 is a lot to bite off in one chunk but you are not able to eat, you are not able to sleep, you are having diarrhea. Seriously, you need to take care of your health. Maybe a resection is a better approach than Humira and perhaps the deductible for that is less.

You can pay out your deductible over several months if you use a credit card to cover it.

Thanks, think I will ask my doctor to look into it, since he precribes it. The Government doesn't care if you are already paying high taxes, high food costs, high insurance and vehicle rates among other things, like loans. They base the deductible on the total amount of income and not on what's left over after they take all the deductions.

Great! now, I got a fever and stabbing pains in my bones. The hospital told me to come back if I developed a fever, now I'm convinced it's a flu and will try not to go back unless the fever lasts more than 3 days.