Hello,
To put it shortly:
**I have a stomach discomfort/heaviness feeling right away after eating and a lot of belching. Generally, throughout the day I can’t stop belching - it’s a constant feeling as if gas was stuck in my stomach. When I don’t eat for a while, stomach discomfort completely disappears and instead I feel a belch ‘stuck in my throat’.
**I never had both stomach discomfort and feeling of something stuck in the throat. It’s usually either this or that. ****
It is going on for 16 months now and after seeing many different doctors nobody seems to know what may be the issue. I have tested basically everything there is regarding diet, natural remedies, I tried stuff like betaine for dyspepsia, I took prokinetics (trimebutine and itopride) for 2 months. Of course I was also a few months on PPI. Nothing helped yet.
-for some reason, during two endoscopies, I always had too much bile in my stomach. Doctors couldn’t explain why so;
-whenever I have stomach discomfort and I start eating, all symptoms disappear. As if the act of eating relieved all symptoms, but they come back few minutes after I’ve stopped eating.
Thing that I have checked so far:
-Esophagus CT scan - GERD confirmed, but it can’t be the cause. I’m not having heartburn, I don’t have any burning feeling in my throat, nothing of the sort.
-Two endoscopies
-Stomach-emptying scintigraphy
-Sulpiride treatment for 2 months to rule out if the issue may be mental. Unfortunately - no help at all.
Additionally:
-I often have a feeling of not being able to empty my bowels entirely (as if I’ve only emptied them in 80% or so)
-I have low cholesterol despite eating plenty of saturated fats for some reason - in range, but low (120).
I understand it’s a long post, but I’m feeling desperate after almost two years of living with this. I’m only 24 and I will do everything I can to find a solution. I appreciate any ideas on what else can I do and what tests to perform. I have an abdominal MRI scheduled for next week, after that I also want to check for Giardia, Lyme, and do a SIBO test.