Hi, ill try to tell my long story short. Im 27 years old male, fit, not drinking, quit from smoking last year, never had any problems with my stomach, just used to fell bloated and windy sometimes after meals, but last two years things changed. Its started with acid reflux, because i wasn't eating very healthy, i was eating before bed a lot etc, then acid reflux gone worse, went to my gp, she gave me omeprozole, but its just made my symptoms worse, after i went to another doctor he put camera inside my stomach and diagnosed chronic gastritis, gave me nexium and ranitidine. Medicine helped a bit, i took it for 3months, after stopped symphtoms came back, but this time i was felling weak after eating, dizzy, especially if i drink milk even lactose free milk or any dairy product i feel dizzy after 2-4 hours or if I eat oats then I dont go to toilet for 2 days or if i go i get pencil thin stools, I even had a little blood in stool, but doctor said its because of hard poo. Anyway now i learned what i can eat and what i cant eat. At the moment (last 1.5 years) im eating very healthy, still keeping fit, im on high fiber diet, which helps with bowel movements, but still cant get rid of acid in my mouth(sour taste) after eating or sometimes right side abdominal (colon) pain (actually it happened today first time after very large bowel movement. Last week went to see doctor again, he gave me more medicines, one of them is enzymes which i fell helps to digest food more easy then he did full blood test , still waiting for results. I thought maybe you could tell me is it possible to have ibs or any food intolerance or to toxic colon or even colon cancer... please, thanks
Well the technically the acid reflux has nothing to do with ibs although a lot of people who have ibs also have acid reflux (myself included...even though I'm still getting tests done to make sure it's just ibs). Well you mentioned right colon pain but not changes in bowel habits. Although ibs is characterized by pain, that's not the only criteria to diagnose ibs. There should be pain that is often (not always) relieved by having a bowel movement. Changes in stool consistency when theres pain. A lot of stool consistency changes from diarrhea to constipation to pencil thin stools to mushy stools... well you get the point. And also the feeling of not being able to empty the bowel. Or wanting to go but not being unable to. If you only have pain then you could just have other functional digestive issue (something less severe than ibs). If you have no weight loss that you can't explain with less caloric intake. Fevers. Or blood in stools it's probably not something like inflammatory bowel disease (Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn's disease) you should probably still get tests done just to be sure. Ibs is wayyy more common than IBD but that doesn't mean you don't have those. Maybe talk to your doctor about the pillcam or a colonoscopy.
Feel better soon!
One more thing that I forgot to answer. It's VERY UNLIKELY that you have colon cancer bc of your age. They start screening for colon cancer after 50 so it's not likely that someone who is 27 has colon cancer. Don't worry so much. .. (from experience I know it's easier said than done) just get testing and you probably just have ibs or something less severe.
Too many different medication, hit and miss tactics ,trial and error, is just does not work with this problem. No one really knows much about this problem. Especially when we talk about our run-of- the-mill doctors at our surgeries.!!
I had almost similar problems like you and I'm only 21. But the doc scheduled me Endoscopy and Colonoscopy and actually I insisted the doc to do the colonoscopy as i was having right abdomen pain probably in Colon like you.. But nothing showed up except gastritis and IBS. So There is less possibility that you have colon cancer as it is rare to the people of your age. So don't worry and don't feel stressed ....Stress can make your situation worse.. Get well soon
People are very diferent. I find Omeprazole really helpful.
Sorry you did not find them helpful.
Sarah