What could this be ? Sulphur burps/ stomach pain / nausea / vomiting

[duckys]

I've obviously seen the GP about this, but not much use really.

I started suffering from episodes of upper stomach pain, accompanied by nausea / vomiting and occasionally diarrhoea over the last couple of years.

It kind of started with a stomach bug I picked up on holiday. Or maybe it's not related. But that year I had a few episodes of just waking up in the night with upper stomach pain and either nausea and vomiting or diarrhoea.

The episodes last around 6 hours and then I feel ok.

I haven't had an episode for a couple of years now.

Then on Sunday I ate an egg ( was not off ) and started feeling indigestion and uncomfortable. It's never been linked to food before. Then sulphur burps started. Then the pain. It lasted all night. I vomited a few times and eventually it went.

Then yesterday I was careful what I ate as I still had a bit of nausea. So I just ate plain bread really. At the end of the day I ate a few tomatoes with olive oil too. That's when the burps started again.

I spent all night in pain again and this time I had diarrhoea but I also felt very sick. I didn't vomit though. Then again, after some hours, it's gone.

I'm scared to eat anything.

I called the GP who said irritable bowel syndrome ?

Can anyone else help me ? To me it sounds like gallbladder maybe?

Pancreatitis. These were my exact symptoms.

Me too, and I'm just now ending a 10 day hospital stretch for it.

This.
Also, where were you on holiday? That could be significant as you can pick up different infections depending on what country you are in.
If infection is ruled out then you need to consider gall bladder/liver/pancreas related symptoms.

Another pancreatitis sufferer here. Had a few years of your exact symptoms OP, gradually getting worse every time. Doctor thought it was indigestion, put me on courses of Omeprazole and I drank loads of Gaviscon. Eventually this wasn’t enough and in the throes of an attack (usually at night) I’d be pacing the floor, curling in a ball, trying anything to stop the pain.
Got so bad my husband drove me to A and E, by now I was being sick, sweating profusely and in so much pain. I’m saying this because your doctor has told you it can’t be gall bladder related or you’d be in more pain, but it may be possible that you haven’t reached that stage yet.
My pancreas was actually starting to necrophy, so I had emergency surgery to remove my gall bladder which was full of stones. (Unlike a previous poster I wasn’t allowed to keep them 😁)
Please keep this possibility in mind, if you can convince your GP to send you for a scan of your gall bladder, you’ll know one way or the other.
Best of luck