Jenny - Did you have your gall bladder out? Do you feel any better? What test came back normal - HIDA scan? I am in the same boat and am having mine out next Fri. My GI has ruled out everything else...
Have you had your gall bladder checked?...
Ryan and others with suspected gall bladder troubles......... I'm still here feeling sick most of the time. This has been going on for a year, but I'm hopeful that I'm almost to a solution. My doctor...
I am in the same boat as you - have been since last summer. What are your symptoms? Have you already had an ultrasound? I don't have gall stones, only 2 small polyps, which they tell me aren't a...
Hi Gabby and Jessi. Yes, I have nausea practically 24/7 with my GERD. I've had it for almost a year now. I've tried all the PPI's and none of them work for me. Right now, I'm taking Zegerid 2 x's/day...
Hi seabrooker - I have been taking zegerid twice a day for a few months now. I don't have any side effects, but it isn't working for me either....
I've had chronic nausea for almost a year as my main symptom of GERD. As a result, I have no appetite. I also have occasional mild heartburn, burping, chronic cough, and upper abdominal pressure...
artchick- Why don't you try to find another surgeon?...
artchick - Please post after your appt. with the surgeon. I'm curious as to what he has to say. Thanks....
I disagree with your Dr. about small people not getting it. I am not as tiny as you, I'm 5'3" and 125 lbs, so I'll still on the small side. No one would ever consider me overweight and I have it...
Forgot to add...... that night I woke up about 3am and was sick as a dog - no vomitting but so nauseaous I couldn't stand it (more so than usual) and terrible diarrhea for about 2 hours....
Keriamon - Thanks for your input. I questioned the validity of the test, too. The lady doing it assured me it would be OK. I told my doc and at first, she rolled her eyes. Then said that she had...
I'm in the same boat as both of you, except for not as long. I started feeling like absolute junk last summer - nausea 24/7, excessive burping, no appetite,and some discomfort in the center of my...
Has it helped your GERD issues? How much and how often do you take it? I know it can have some nasty side effects but how common are they?...
There 2 tests that I had done were the ultrasound, which checks for stones, and other structural features (polyps, wall thickening) and the HIDA scan, which is a nuclear medicine test. It checks to...
I have been having trouble (sonstant nausea, burping, indigestion, loose stool, no appetite) since last summer. I had a HIDA scan on my gall bladder in the fall. It showed 32% ejection rate....
Has anyone ever been diagnosed with GERD, tried meds that didn't help and then found out it was your gall bladder?...
I tried Zegerid for 10 weeks - twice a day. It didn't help me, but now they are thinking that my problems are gall bladder related, so it's no surprise that it didn't do anything. I also tried...
Hi Blankman - I agree with Marthamae - GERD takes a LONG time to get control of. I started with symptoms in Aug. 07. I was diagnosed in Dec, started PPI's right after Christmas. I am just now...
Inape, I see that you had your gall bladder removed awhile ago. Did you have symptoms similar to mine? The thing that doesn't seem quite right is that I have never had any "attacks" - sharp pain,...
Just because your endoscopy didn't show anything, doesn't mean that you're not refluxing and suffering. I read someplace that 50% of people with GERD have normal endoscopies - I happen to be one. The...
Marthamae - I'm glad that you had a nice time with your daughter at lunch. This whole GERD thing can be so draining. I have had it for 7 months now, and still don't really have a handle on it. I...
Thanks for the info. I think my diet is pretty low fat. Although, I'm sure I could do better. I eat small amounts at a time throughout the day - I have absolutely no appetite and quite a bit of...
I've been searching for answers on the GERD forum, but happened to notice more "gall bladder" talk here. I've been feeling like crap (no pun intended) since August, 07. By "crap", I mean nauseous 90%...
Thanks for the reply. I have been thinking about that but read somewhere that you should give PPI's up to 12 weeks to work. I welcome opinions on that!...
Nobody responded to my last post.... Must be nobody can relate. How about this one? I've been on 80 mg/day (40 in the a.m. and 40 in the p.m.) of Zegerid for 2 months. It seemed like it was working...
I'm looking for hope. My main symptom was nausea most all of every day. I also had occasional pressure and bloating but little to no heartburn. I really felt pretty awful and was on the verge of...
Actually, I had the gastric emptying test a couple of weeks ago and it came out OK so that's not part of the problem. Thanks for the reply, though....
Too make a long story short...... I was diagnosed with GERD in Dec., 07. Last summer, I started not feeling well - main symptom= nausea 24/7, also lots of burping, stomach gurlgling, no heatburn but...