My thread title is tongue in cheek as I know you can't diagnose me but I would appreciate any ideas or experiences you've had as I'm at a loss.
I've had nausea and vomiting with mild to severe upper abdominal pain and some diarrhoea for 2 months.
The pain is so bad that early on I was admitted to hospital, via my GP, for pain relief and fluids early in mid January.
In hospital I had a chest x ray and an endoscopy, both of which drew a blank.
So I was referred back to the GP for symptom management.
This is fine except that I'm a generally healthy woman in my mid 40s, I don't have a diagnosis and although it is being managed up to a point it is showing no signs of abating.
I am intermittently nauseous every day and sick most days, even though I am taking prescriptions antiemetics.
Loperamide makes the pain significantly worse so instead I have been prescribed painkillers which also slow my digestive system and have also slowed the diarrhoea.
Despite the strong painkillers I am still experiencing a lot of upper abdominal pain, this is worse when I feel nauseous or am being sick.
The pain prevents me from getting to sleep and wakes me up in the night.
I've cut right back on dairy, I'm allowing myself the occasional cup of tea, fewer than one a day, with a dash of milk but coffee is almost guaranteed to make me sick.
I can keep down clear fluids and the nausea abates for long enough for me to eat twice a day so I'm not dehydrated or losing weight too quickly.
It's just that I'm fed up with feeling like this all of the time, I'm tired and I can't exercise at all.
Can anyone point me in the direction of a possible diagnosis? Or has experienced similar and found anything helped?
I have private medical insurance so I can fund further investigations but these would need a GP referral and I would need to know which investigations to ask my GP for.