Posted 6/24/2023 3:15 AM (GMT 0)
i've been told i have acid reflux for years. taking otc meds like pepcid don't help, they make it worse. for the past two months i've had a hard time passing stool through my small bowels, and now food won't even go past that point. i don't even think the food is digesting. went to er about a week ago because felt backed up and like there was a block and like i had pancreatitis, they did cat scan and said looked ok. went to er again a week later this past Wednesday because food felt backed up in my esophagus to the point where i was choking on water and couldn't keep it down it kept coming up, they didn't do any tests and said not to eat anything until i saw a gastro two days later. i'm already severely underweight from not being able to eat much due to autoimmune conditions and have lost over ten pounds recently. my digestive tract has lumps in it where the food collects but won't move through. the food spasms up and down all day long, i don't throw up but have terrible acid reflux that looks like diluted vomit and i'm just eating baby food. on Wednesday, the day i was in the er for the esophagus thing, they said i needed an endoscopy but wouldn't give me one. that was the last day i pooped. tried to poop thursday and a few flakes came out. the food is now backed up so badly i can't eat. went to gastro today friday and he was hateful and said i didn't need an endoscopy and wanted me to do some other test on july 3. meanwhile my food won't go past my stomach and large clumps of food go up and down in my gi tract. for weeks my entire gi tract has been spasming out of control, from my throat to my anus. now it still spasms but the food won't go all the way down, it just rises and falls. i think i have something wrong with my nervous system, and have had vagus nerve problems for years. i don't know what to do, the hospital wouldn't admit me either time i went to the er because my labs looked ok, and the gastro was an arrogant jerk who thought i had anxiety and an ed. i've read that gastroparasis can be a life threatening condition if left untreated because the food in your digestive tract can basically just rot and grow bacteria, and i'm having problems peeing now and my eyes are getting so blurry to the point i can barely see. i also can barely drink anything because the food is so backed up in there. if i go to the er again, they'll just tell me to see a gastro and i just saw a gastro and trying to see a new gastro could take weeks if not months. my digestive tract feels dead, i suspect i have bad candida and i also have lyme disease which i think maybe has ruined my nervous system. what should i do?! no one will listen to me. they think i have an e.d. and anxiety and constipation. my family says i'm just stressed and constipated. if i can't move this poop, i'm afraid of what will happen. i can't take laxatives, i can barely swallow liquids at this point. please any advice is helpful. i don't know what to do to get help for myself.