I am posting this again as I forgot to enter the subject. I am new to this forum. In a stool sample some weeks ago I had a parasite called ameba. I took a med for it that I got at the emergency but it came back. I got treatment for it again - antibiotics for 10 days a med called Flagenese 400 which is similar to Flagyl in the US.
I live in Dom.Rep. The gastro I saw who prescribed it to me suggested an endoloscopy which we did and it showed I have severe gastritis and two small superficial ulcers in my stomach. I then got antibiotics for that which. I am still taking. It is for 10 days and is two different antibiotics. I have 6 days more to go.
The last days. I have had more bowel movements. Yeasterday 4. Today 5. There seems to be quite a lot and it is soft and yellowish. At least I am less nausea and the dizziness I had seems to have gone. But looking on the web I see the symptoms as either being from the parasite Giardia or it is GERD or maybe the stress from worrying about my health and other things.
The pain seems to come from either the small or large intestine. The pain comes and goes. If it is the gastritis/ulcer the pain should be gone by now. I have also been dieting for the last 3-4 months and quit alcohol and coffee.
Since a week ago I modified this diet further to a bland diet. I eat ok. And I exercise swimming. While swimming today I felt a pain in my upper chest. Like a pressure. I had to stop and went to the bathroom and had a bowel movement and the pain disappeared.
I get the pain that comes and goes mostly in the right side of the abdomen. But what worries me more is the yellowish bowel movements the last 3 days and I have had it before the last months. I also take a Nexium but with my doc we now changed to Panpure which is like Prolisec/Pantropazol. This I have to keep taking for a month and then see the gastro doc again bringing 3 stool tests and a blood test from the lab.
I just went today on my own account to a lab and gave in a stool test and will see tomorrow what it says. And then take it to another doc I have been seeing in the most modern clinic here. She is a bp doc and checked me some months ago when I came in with very high blood pressure start August. Since mid july I have been recovering from alcohol which I quit cold turkey.
My blood pressure went up more though and I had to begin with a lot of anxiety. Swimming, yoga, dieting and blood pressure medicine has helped for that. But since that I struggled with the stomach actually I think this was the main problem all the time but became overshadowed by the bp issue which is a non issue now.
I also had vertigo some days when the parasite showed the first time. That came we think from water between the ears and a med I took for 3 days seemed to help. I don't feel the dizziness anymore. I guess I have ignored my different symptoms for too long and then a lot of stress last year and the beginning of this just increased all my ailments.
Does someone know the answer to the more than normal bowel movements which are yellowish and a lot and also seems some things come out undigested. Is it GERD, stress or a parasite ?
i feel ok strong and want to exercise more and I am working more again mostly from home. I now am worried about getting nausea, dizziness and diarea. I am used to traveling a lot. Thank god my business is going ok and. I have my wife and staff to take care of it. I feel my health issues handicaps me. I normally dont have all these issues or maybe I have just ignored them and alkolhol has made me not feel them.
edited for breaks in text to aid in reading
Post Edited By Moderator (dencha) : 11/12/2013 6:10:13 PM (GMT-7)