I was wondering if anyone's else feels that they have stomach problems that actually cause their anxeity rather than the other way around?
I had stomach and bowel problems last year; feeling sick often, no appetite, feeling dizzy and having palipations after diner, and always a swollen belly. After a lot of research and consulting doctors I found out that I had 'leaky gut', which caused indigestion and in the end a severe vitamine deficiency (amongst some other deficiencies). Which can cause dizziness, loss of appetite, palpitations... So once you've got this vicious circle going, it gets worse and worse.
My leaky gut was caused by longterm stress, some individual stressful events and food allergies.
So you could say first came stres, followed by stomach problems, resulting in anxiety.
What did they do to solve your problem, or did it heal over time. I was on ibrofren for almost a year and I suspected either leaky gut or an ulcer.
I assume you mean ibuprofen? That's bad stuff for your gut, and a year is an awful lon time to take it. It can have anxiety as a side effect...
I cut out certain foods (gluten, dairy, eggs etc.), and I took supplements like L-glutamine, Slippery Elm, Curcuma etc. to heal my gut lining, and I took several other supplements, especially vit. B12. D and C in high dosages, and several proteins.
Unfortunately I had to find out about all this by myself, in my experience doctors are not into healing, but in fighting symptoms. But that may be different where you live.
If you would like to find out if your problem could be solved with my strategy I would recommend consulting a complementary doctor, because it's quite a complex matter.
I am sure the docs are the same here since I already went to them to explain that my anxeity seems to come from my gut but they looked at me like I was crazy.
I feel the same way.... My stomach has this full sensation a lot like it's about to explode and hurts.. It triggers my anxiety which is crazy to me because I never had stomach problems before. I told my dr about my stomach she told me to come back in four weeks if I'm still having the problem smh.... Crazy right... I feel like my anxiety caused my stomach problems...
Hi Richard
When I was having a bad panic attack my stomach knotted up and I wasn't hungry.
When I took a diazepam my appetite returned.
Keep posting Richard. We are all in this together.
Hugs
I hear you, I woke this morning with the feeling of having to throw up of course I did not, mostly dry heaves. I can figure out if it is from the Zoloft (sertraline) or if I have an ulcer and the Zoloft is not letting it heal. I am going back and forth about getting an endoscopy my Gastrologist wants to look but my Doctor keeps saying he doesn't think its a good idea because it might amp my anxeity.
My anxiety started when my stomach problems started. So I still don't know if my anxiety causes my stomach problems or my stomach problems cause my anxiety. I have lost 20 lbs in 2 months from no appetite and severe diarrhea which can range from bright yellow to bright green. I have been to GI doc and says everything is normal. Been to regular doc who says I have severe anxiety. I did start taking an ativan once a day which has calmed my stomach down some. Maybe you could try something that relaxes you to try to get your bowels back in order? Best of luck.
Well I have been trying to eat better, and I am on anxeity meds but for some reason my stomach in the morning is just awful. No matter what I do it just will not heal thats why I thought maybe if I did have an ulcer then maybe the Zoloft is stopping it from healing and aggrevating it.
Mine is! Every little twinge it sets my anxiety off! Even the thought of having a bad stomach!
About 3 months ago I had a bad stomach couldn't stop been sick, shakey, dizzy. I Had blood test colonoscopy endoscopy they found nothing. Someone suggest cutting gluten out which I have and seemed to be ok! But I panic every time I eat and today I seem really bad I have a full feeling in my stomach and my anxiety is bad! I feel a panic attack coming on and have to keep calming myself down.
feel horrible and depressed today
Yes the reason why I asked this question is because I heard that your stomach is connected to your brain via the vargas nerve and when your stomach is upset it sends signals to the brain in the form of anxeity and panic. That why I was wondering if we actually have anxeity or if we actually have stomach issues that set off anxeity.
I definitely had stomach problems before anxiety! But I seem to get anxiety over more stuff now. So I think the stomach think triggered anxiety now I get it bad over anything.
I agree I feel my stomach problem caused the anxeity and now the anxeity has taken control but I do feel if my stomach issue would resolve so would some of my anxeity.
I agree! If they knew what was wrong and could cure it or at least control it I really think it would help my anxiety! But my doctor thinks it's the anxiety coursing the dodgy stomach!! I don't agree but can't do anything about it.
You can help yourself, by educating yourself on the Gut-Brain connection. There are tons of books available, for instance on Amazon, on this subject. Also you can consult a complementary doctor, in alternative medicine the Gut-Brain connection has been acknowledged for decades.
Woke up again this morning and had that I have to throw up feeling, I am not sure if it is the sertraline(zoloft) or it is really something with my stomach. I do take my pill in the morning but I had not taken before I felt that I needed to throw up. After I take the pill my stomach feels full for several hours and bloats a little, anyone experience this?
There is a current trial going with a new anxiety medicine with ore and pro biotics. There is real scientific research if their is a correlation to the gut health and anxiety. If you think about if you have mal absorption you would slowly become deficient in many vitamins and minerals and your naturual flora would be embalanced causing your body to become dysfunctional. Cause and effect. But who knows what will come of the research most of it never is brought into the public eye so there isnt much on this. The human body is suppose to heal in its own and that would include trhe brain rewiring itself but it seems ig with th processed foods and addidtives and all the medicines people take people arent healing. The newest meta ohysical explanation is peoples mind limit beliefs frim the internet and from each ither and it tells the brain its not possible so they believe it and the body doesnt fix itself or fix its thiughts. But that only half makes sense be use we dont tell a bruise to heal it just does. So who knows. I believe its root cause is viral, bacterial or from a parasite of some sort that whatever toxin it causes alters the brain molecules and sends the wrong message or defeats the calming mechanism some how. Im surprised science hasnt figured this out yet its worldwide one out of every four people suffer at some point so i would think its important to research it. considering it is worldwide global thing it cant be food based only because we all eat different foods with different dditives and there a hong king forum nd they discuss the same issues. Lets all hope some group of scientists find a break through. We all think because of progress and all this technology that scientists can figure out everything but they cant or dont even have the funding too. But yes holistically it can be related to leaky gut. Meta physically related to deadly emotions like anger, betrayl, lack of trust. So many avenues to explore until you sit and realize we arent car parts, we are humans made up of live cells and dna and energy and to heal one would have to somehow connect their entire selves as in mind, body and soul. But the body part we need science cause no one is really beating it in droves. I probably rambled on but its frustrating that science has not figured it out along with not figuring out a lot of other ailments by now.
I agree, I think there is 100% connection between the stomach and the brain. I real wish science would prove this and work on finding natural ways to correct the situation. My therepist said our bodies will natually heal on their own but when we have anxeity we become more intune with our body and hear body noises. Much like if you car engine had a problem it would make noise so you investigate it. Anxious people do the same thing with our bodies where a non-anxious person might just think oh thats strange and move on. I am having a bad day today I feel a little more anxious today it is day 4 on 50mg zoloft so I am thinking it is the startup anxeity kicking in today. I started my medication 20 days ago 5 days on 25mg, then 6 days on 37.5mg and currently on 4th day of 50mg.
I like your rambling, I recognize the frustration about innovation hardly taking place in the medical world. The research on the Second Brain is widely available, the new insights are just not adopted by conventional medicine. I guess probiotics, other natural supplements and diets are not profitable enough.