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Oral thrush, throat, tongue, tonsil ulcers

Hello everybody. I was wondering, can GERD cause oral thrush? I also noticed that the roof of my mouth, back of...

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Acute Stomach Pain Which Results in Diarrhea

My 22 year old daughter has acute attacks which cause severe stomach pain (mid to lower abdomen) and result in...

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Reply: bile salt diarrhea

I have been diagnosed with IBS for 20 years and just found the "bile salts diarrhea" cause which sounds like...

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Stomach problems, Dr's guessing.

Starting in April I had diarrhea about 2 hours after eating. It would usually be accompanied with flushness...

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Reply: Rapid Bowel Movements After Eating

I have the exact same symptoms you do! What do we have?!? It's so annoying living like this.

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Need help identifying stomach issues.

Let me give you some background info, in case it's pertinent to my current situation: I had 4 wisdom teeth...

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Reply: Need Help Please

I do eat cheese but I never experience any issues with eating that. I haven't tried yogurt yet, slighlty scared...

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Reply: IBS Questions

Are you staying away from all dairy in any form? How were you tested for lactose intolerance? Were you also...

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Best Probiotic for IBS/Lactose Intolerance?

I'm pretty sure I have IBS. About 2-3 years ago I started having MAJOR stomach problems. I have CHRONIC gas...

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Reply: Benign Tumors/Clusters on Throat

The unfortunate thing is the variety of benign tumors that can grow in the throat are huge. Take a look at...

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Reply: IBS? IBD? or what?

There are some great probiotic brands on the market. Some of the ones I've run across include Culturelle, PB8,...

Posted by CalGal37

There are some great probiotic brands on the market. Some of the ones I've run across include Culturelle, PB8, and Digestive Advantage-IBS (not only for IBS, though).

I know exclusion diets can seem difficult or a lose-lose situation, but if you're at 'bottom' and are sick of nothing working, it's worth a try. Each will take a couple of weeks out of your life, but that's a small price to pay if it works - at least that's the way I view it.

Two 'biggies' in the food intolerance group are dairy and gluten (wheat, rye and barley). For either diet, you'd have to take out EVERYTHING that contains the 'offending' items for at least 2-3 weeks. Then at the end, add back and see if symptoms pop-up again. With many people, they find that suddenly they feel worse than they did before when they add the offending food back. They didn't realize they were down so low in the first place.

And it does mean you have to take everything out - there's no such thing as 'just having a little.' With food sensitivities your body reacts - in some cases - with the production of antibodies. So it's like a virus - you could get exposed to one particle (virus or gluten) and the result is a full-scale auto-immune response. It's not dose-dependent. And those antibodies hang around for LONG periods of time making people miserable.

Any diarrhea or constipation? Dairy more typically will tend to cause constipation (if it's an antibody response) and gluten will cause diarrhea (if it's an antibody response). Not always, but the major pattern is 'there' in most people. Dairy also seems to result in 'looser' tissues, while gluten causes 'tighter' tissues of the body.

I stress the 'antibody' issue, because there are also food intolerances that result in release of histamine and that produces other issues than the ones I've spoken about.View Thread

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Reply: Diverticular Disease

that was interesting to read.. haveing dealt with diverticular disease for the last few years and being in...

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What Does This Look Like (Stomach Pictures)

I was hoping to directly ask experts, but it seems they don't have any for digestive system problems. That's...

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Reply: splenic flexure syndrome

A new chiropractor told me to quit my acid reflux pills for a week. I was told my Calcium level was so low my...

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chiari and digestive problems pepcid alternative?

I was diagnosed with chiari and syringomyelia about five years ago. Since about then I have had digestive...

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gurgling intestines and gas

A few days ago I had a piece of my b-day cake, but with extra frosting. A couple hours later I had to use...

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Reply: 10yr 'stomach ache'

Gary, C. diff can be difficult to handle. If you haven't seen an infectious disease person, that should be...

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Reply: Help - Incomplete bowel movements

I have read all the posts and certainly will all better health. I believe zeinorm is no longer on the market....

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Not sure if back pain or what but

I should note first that this does relate to digestive from what I've experienced. Anyway, onto the...

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Reply: Newly diagnosed with IBS

I've had IBS-D since childhood, ran in my dad's family, but it has been intermittent - I've lived many...

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Reply: Deployed soldier needs health advice

SGT Patten, it could be internal hemorrhoids that are protruding, or it could be a prolapsing rectum. There's...

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Reply: Gallbladder surgery?

Hi clavalley - Glad you symptoms subsided and surprised it took two years for a referral! What...

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Reply: Have you tried DGL licorice?

I was just reading IBS for Dummies and learned about DGL licorice so of course, I googled it to learn some...

Posted by Prosper3

I was just reading IBS for Dummies and learned about DGL licorice so of course, I googled it to learn some more. Thanks for your posts; I like the one about how you can get capsules at GNC so that you don't have to taste it. I have never really liked the taste of black licorice. At any rate, I wanted to add my two cents. I am a pediatric, pulmonary nurse, and studying to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. I learned on my former unit how closely the gut system and respiratory system were related. Often times, because an infant or young child had bad reflux or GERD, they would develop pneumonia. So, in patient teaching, I would stress to the parents to get their child's reflux under control with the prescribed medications and simple things like keeping the child upright during feeding, burping an infant frequently and keeping their head of be elevated about 30 degrees and keeping the child upright in that position for at least 30 minutes after a feeding to keep the food in the stomach due to gravity. There were more interventions like thickening the formula, but the point that I want to make is that as adults we too can elevate our head of bed by 4 to 6 inches to allow gravity to keep food contents down in the stomach and not to reflux back up the esophagus. At Bed, Bath & Beyond, I purchased solid wooden bed lifts that lift the head of the bed nicely. When you are in bed, it is only slightly noticeable that it is elevated, but it helps with controlling reflux. Additionally, remember not to eat about three hours before going to bed to keep contents in the stomach at a lower level than a full stomach. I also learned this past semester that eating after dinner mints or mints in general relax the esophageal sphincter and thus promotes reflux--so pass on the mints!
I will give the DGL licorice a try and stop the daily Zantac and see if it works. I can only hope.View Thread

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Natural Remedies for GERD

I was just reading IBS for Dummies and learned about DGL licorice so of course, I googled it to learn some...

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Possible gallbladder problems

I'm 22 weeks pregnant and already asked this question on the preg community board. I've had discomfort in my...

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Extreme cramps with bowel movement (which is alway...

Hi, I am new to posting but hoping I can get some answers to this as I have no insurance which makes it...

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Reply: stomach gas in the morning

Me to, but the gas/bloating forces the acid up my esophagis burning. What is weird is beer cures it. I have...

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Reply: Encopresis and my 15yr old son :(

we are also having this problem with my 15 year old. It is a big problem for us! not sure if BO or what...

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need assistance with id'ing problem/cause/solution

For the last few years my husband (37 yr old) has been experiencing what the dr. says is IBS-D. He and I both...

Posted by bane0317

For the last few years my husband (37 yr old) has been experiencing what the dr. says is IBS-D. He and I both think it is something else or in addition to IBS-D. It all started after he had his gallbladder out. He didn't have stones but his ejection fraction was extremely low. I'd had mine out a year or so prior, so we thought we knew what to expect. His pain was excrutiating in comparison. That dr. blew us off when we showed concern.

Well, about 3 months later he started having a lot of trouble. He would get just a few bites of food in him and have to run to the restroom with D. We did some research and talked to our dr. She put him on Questran resin and Hyosciamine. This help him some for a while, then the symptoms would come back. This has been the pattern for the last few years. Over this time we have added probiotics, calcium, l-glutamine and fiber to what he takes. He often goes1 or more days without eating more than a cheese stick or a pack of crackers.

We did visit a Gastroenterologist who did bloodwork and a physical exam. When she pressed on his upper left abdomen he experienced pain. She seemed to expect it but didn't say what it meant. She did bloodwork and told him that he does not have celiac. She prescribed him Donnatol which has also helped some.

He is a chronic pain patient who takes morphine and soma daily, but this was going on before this started happening. As a side note, about a year before all of this started, he had a bad staph aureus infection on his spine/hip from a spinal cord stimulator implant surgery. He was on heavy doses of antibiotics for 4 days via IV, including Vancomycin. He describes his digestive related pain as feeling everything move through his intestines. He has loud stomach/intestine noises and feels bloated a lot. He is not overweight. He is 5'10" and weighs 150lbs. He says the pain is a tearing sensation or a stabbing, cramping feeling, sometimes in his upper abdomen (left and right sides) and sometimes in his lower abdomen (center, above pelvic bone). I am open to any suggestions or ideas as to how to help him. He has openly wondered if something was botched during his gall bladder surgery. I wonder this in addition to if the heavy IV antibiotics did something. He has really become discouraged, especially with doctors over the past few years. Any and all help is appreciated.View Thread

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Ongoing digestive problem for about a year

Hi, I'm 21 years old and I've been having weird digestive problems for over a year, and i still don't have a...

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