Hello,
I'll try to make this as short as possible. I first started having digestive issues after I took a trip out of the country where I came back super sick (d that I couldn't even hold)... After that subsided I was left weak...and I guess with a sucky immune system. So I started getting infections I had never had before like strep throat, UTIS, tonsillitis, and ear infections. ..well I finally started taking a multivitamin along with vitamin C which helped a bit. But bc I had to take so many antibiotics. . my gut flora suffered. Throughput this time I never really suffered from pain... mostly just discomfort and no diarrhea just softer stools with various widths, shapes, and consistencies. So fast forward to January of this year I decided to visit a homeopathic doctor. With the help of a machine he discovered I had a tapeworm. Well I was ecstatic that a test finally showed something! !! (I have had numerous testing (except for the famous colonoscopy)I've had blood work to test for deficiencies and inflammation, stool tests, barium x-ray, endoscopy with biopsies, breath test, CT scan, gallbladder ultrasound and HIDA scan, pelvic exams...EVERYTHING comes back normal) well... the homeopath put me on medicine for the parasite (albendazole which is not homeopathic) and I felt better after. He then sent me home to drink pineapple with grated coconut. ..well.... that caused me to have EXCRUTIATING abdominal pain. ..where one night I spent the whole night in pain and had diarrhea. Well I stopped the concoction and finally my diarrhea and pain went away. Well two weeks later I started having UTI symptoms... and the urine test showed wbc and trace blood...they sent a culture and no bacteria growth so... I was still given antibiotics bc I was having UTI symptoms. ..they gave me a Rocephin shot and sent me home with Bactrim. Well 2days later I developed severe diarrhea that sent me to the ER. . they suspected C.diff but didn't test my stool even though I requested it. .. well they sent me home with tweet another antibiotic (Flagyl) but I couldn't take the side effects so I stopped the Flagyl (this was over 2 weeks ago) aND the D never came back so it probably wasn't C.diff ... well now since the last antibiotic I've been experiencing tummy pain that I had never suffered from before. .. and I'm going to the bathroom more frequently (it varies. . 3days ago I went 4 times. ...then I visited my acupuncturist on Sunday and I only went 1 that day. .. yesterday I went twice)... but it's not diarrhea..sometimes it's soft (always formed ) other times it can be pellets or harder stools...and it's ALWAYS yellow unless I eat red meat then it's lighter brown. . well now to my questions:
1.I'm having pain all over my abdomen but yesterday after a meal it was mostly 1 inch next to my belly button on the left side. .. which seems like it's the small intestine? ? Or could this be referred pain from my colon?
2. Could IBS worsen after antibiotics? Like I said I had NEVER suffered from IBS pain until the well pineapple but I read that some people can be allergic to the enzyme pineapples have. .. but the antibiotics have caused me to have pain, gas, and fullness.
I guess I just need some reassurance. ..bc I'm really scared it might be something more serious. So just to recap my symptoms are: bloating, abdominal pain, gurgling, back pain, nausea, gasses, so much burping, alternating yellow soft stools and harder yellow stools. BTW I don't have the worst diet BUT I will have a
cookie if I want one or have a hamburger (turkey or grassfed beef)... so maybe I should try to not eat these things? Thanks in advance aND I'm sorry if this was too long to read. /:
Post Edited (Maddikins) : 3/10/2015 9:01:28 AM (GMT-6)