"Gastric Help Now - Gastroenterology Relief"

I’m getting really worried now since I have a few of the symptoms of stomach (gastric) cancer. The symptoms I am feeling are:

Persistent stomach pain / upper abdominal discomfort
Flu-like sickness
Blood when passing a stool (pooing)
Loss of appetite
Indigestion

What other diseases or sicknesses may be causing these symptoms. I’m really, really scared.

I am 5′ 2″ and I weigh 124 pounds. I used to weigh 310 pounds. I lost 186 pounds on my own when I was 25. No gastro-bypass or lap band. I did it the good ol fashion way. Walking 2 hours a day and ate fruits and veggies, no meat for 2 years. Anyways, years later, I got a tummy tuck and breast implants after I lost my weight. I am remarried and I will never tell my new husband or new co-workers (I live in a different town now). He thinks I am so beautiful and whenever he sees a big person he has said “how can anyone allow themselves to get that big.” I tell him “hey, it can happen to anyone, the skin can really stretch.”

I have been suffering for some time now with terrible stomach spasms that are very painful, the pain results me feeling nauseous and to have diarrhoea. I have kept a food diary but can not find anything that is setting this off. I am being referred to the gastroenterology in 2 weeks time but in the meantime I would like some advice if anyone could help.

When I got to the hospital they gave me a cat scan.and thats when they discovered I had a “liver mass”. I am not .00% sure what that is (please explain). Well the doctor wanted to keep an eye on it and wanted me to come back in a few months. Well its been 6 months and its still there.its like the size of a nickel. I am worried and scared because I don’t know what that means.I was told to go see a Gastroenterology
I don’t fully know whats going on.i don’t know what a liver mass is and if i will die from this. Im scared

I am a 23 year old mom with 2 kids considering weight loss surgery. I currently have a BMI of 34.7 Obese. I am leaning more towards Lapband as I do want to have 1 more kid and I am ready for the life style change.

I know to many o people they are going to say im really not that HUGE to want to do something this darastic. But let me explain a little of my History,
I really have no healt issues (besides my wight) but I am not soposed to be this heavy (normal me is 115-130) and it is causing me major depression due to it. Here is a history of my weight.
18- 118 lbs
19- 121 lbs
20 (had a baby, but this is my after baby)- 150 lbs
21- 202 lbs
22 (had a baby, but this is my after baby)- 209 lbs
23 (now)- 215 lbs

Now I have been dieting and exercising but I cannot seem to lose the amount of weight to get back to my “normal” that I need to. I know I have had kids but I lost the “baby wiehgt” with them but cannot seem to lose my weight.

Do you think I have a good reason to be approved for the lap band precedure as from me this is huge and it is really effecting my marriage, my job, my kids, my life, im 24 and hate it.

Please be nice people. Serious answers only

i started out at 180 lbs, and im now 27 weeks and weigh 223 lbs.

first off.dont yell at me, i am dumber than a child with how to eat

back story.my whole life, i was raised on mcdonalds, wendys and burger king, literally everyday. as a child i was so active, i was always stick skinny. once i hit puberty, i ballooned. i have struggled with my weight my whole life. my dad is a dr, and he works all the time, and my mom is stay at home, so she was the one who fed me and my brother. she was skinny at one point too. but she had gastric bypass, so you know she was my influence. i never ate veggies, and im 22 yrs old and havent even tried half the fruits out there. my mom is a very loving mom, too much so that she gave me what i wanted, donuts for breakfast, and burger king for lunch and dinner
so i did help myself when i was in high school and realized i weighed 217. im 5′4. i did weight watchers and counted my points, did it all on my own, no attending meetings since i didnt really have the money, and i got down to 158 lbs. i was so happy. . but my diet was high in fat, because thats all i like, half of it was fast food, because thats all i know. basically i ate barely anything, and my points added up fast every day. but i lost the weight in 8months, so i thought, oh well it worked.

well once i went off it, i got to 170. so i had a little diet to help me stabilize: eat junk one day, and starve the next. not healthy but since i hate fruits and veggies, i did it, and it worked, of course not healthy. well then i found out i was preg, and my fiance and i decided to hide it from my parents until after our florida vacation with them, because i’m only 22, and just graduated college.

on vacation, i ate the way i did a year ago, i splurged a lot, especially since i was stressed about being pregnant. at my first dr appt, i weighed 185, so technically they consider that my starting weight.

throughout my pregnancy i am having a hard time as it is. off my anti depressants, and eating fast food all day every day, parents planning a quick wedding for us in a month, fiance passing trucking school, but not the driving test so he is jobless, and unable to re take it for a month, again. he is basically my emotional support, unable to leave me alone because i cry everyday. we are also trying to move out, which i have a deposit on an apt, but wont be able to afford it soon with me working part time, i make good money, but only part time, so i have to rely on my mom saying.dont worry ill help u.thats not helpful, relying on my parents for help.

basicaly i am beyond stresed and have no idea how to diet, and in a family where no one knows how to diet, even my fiance, he is mexican and lives off burritos, which i hate, i cant get down tomatoes or any fruits. i can get down some fruits if blended in a smoothie. i like chicken, any kind, and potato, any kind. and meat and shrimp, and of course my fast food.

what can i do. i cant hurt my baby. but how do i eat while pregant. what are the calories and fat and fiber per day that i should be eating. i dont have money for nutritionist, and parents only know their ways of junk eating.

what did all you ladies eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner while preg.
how many calories, and fat grams, and fiber should i be eating while preg.
i need exact details, mom is willing to shop for me, but doesnt really know how to help me, but she will buy food for me.

im so clueless that its 11am, and i am sitting here not eating until i can find something to eat healthy while preg as a diet. i know i can do it, ive done it before, i am determined, but so clueless. please dont yell at me, i wasn’t raised with anything besides fast food, and i want to keep my baby healthy starting today. so please give me a daily meal planner, and i will follow it.i i love all chicken and potato, hate hate lettuce and tomato, but i can eat fruit with a blender and get it down if need be.

thank you for reading this. please help.

She now has another ulcer where they connected her old stomach to her new, I think. Not real familiar with this surgery. She had one that they had to go and surgically remove. Any how my question is she loves coffee and soda. Had two cups of coffee a day and some soda. Well she can’t have it anymore and shouldn’t of been. I was going to go get her some real good decaff but I guess she can not even have that. She wants to have something hot in the morning. Any suggestions. Also soda and suggestions there. I guess its the carbonation of the soda and the caffeine that also bothers ulcers. Like I said I am all new to this and just trying to help. Any suggestions would be so appreciated . She had this done at Kaiser and I am trying to convince her to go to Sanford or Davis we are in California just to get another pair of eyes to look over her case. This is such a complicated surgery. Of course she is now losing more weight which is really does not need to do because it hurts to eat. I am sure she is on meds to help with the ulcer but the pain. It is a lot better but it is still there.

I’m 17, 114 lbs, 5′4”, female.

I’m not necessarily looking to lose weight (Though a pound or two off my tummy wouldn’t hurt ;)) But I was inspired earlier this week by a teacher of mine. She lost a hundred pounds over the past year through surgery (gastro bypass I believe.) and she had to change her diet drastically. She says that she’s never felt better. She can see and think clearly, she’s happier, full of energy.
I was just wondering if there’s anything I can do on a much smaller scale to get to that level of healthiness.
I typically don’t eat a lot of junk because I’m hypoglycemic and can’t handle a lot of sugar. But I also eat at odd hours of the day and mostly eat carbs.

Any suggestions for diet and exercise to increase my energy and happiness.

Thanks guys

Hey i had like gastroenteritis today. So i went to see the doctor a few hrs ago. He gave me meds and i slept and now i feel ok. But i’ve vomitted three times today. So i feel like i have no food in my stomach. Do you think i should eat something just to fill my stomach with something or leave it as it is. I feel better now but im scared that the gastroenteritis will return.

OK, I am a 16 year old male, weight 135 pounds, height 68 inches an have been having peculiar symptoms that have have been plaguing me for the last month and a half.
Now for the symptoms:
-loss of appetite (terrible in the morning but more recently recovers in the afternoon; often accompanied by nausea)
-fatigue/ lightheaded
-pain in stomach (burning feeling in stomach mainly but rarely in chest)
-squeezing or gagging feeling in throat (not very severe but often exacerbates nausea)

Now for some background info:
It all started when I went to a camp in Washington DC. This was my first time flying alone so obviously I was a little nervous but I had been to other similar/longer camps on my own with little to no problems in previous years. Starting from day one, I could not eat a single bite of my food without being overcome by intense nausea. In the first two days the nausea and stomach pain were intense but very distinct and different than a virus like the stomach flu. On the second day after around three PM my pains and nausea were gone and I believed that I was cure (though I was fare from it). This pain and nausea recurred each day after that, beginning in the morning very severe and slowly waning throughout the day until I went to bed. These symptoms quickly were accompanied by Dizziness, Lightheadedness, fatigue, and tightening of the throat often when I would become nervous or anxious, or when I would sit in a lecture hall. Around day eight this became so bad that I actually passed out in the middle of a lecture though I was not dehydrated or even standing.
Before I had left for camp I had eaten a whole jar of peepers in one sitting a few nights before as well as quickly shifting my sleeping patterns from sleeping at 3 in the morning till Noon to sleeping from 11 at night to 7 in the morning.
At the very end of the camp before I could fly home I passed out in the airport and was taken to the Emergency Room. They did an Xray, CT scan, and several blood tests finding little to no evidence or reason for my symptoms. They blamed the feinting on vasovagal syncope (basically they said that the stress and fear of becoming sick in the lecture hall coupled with my “starvation” caused me to have a panic attack. My body then tried to lower my blood pressure to the point where I passed out). They said that I may have been suffering from gastritis do to the peppers I had eaten (though I have a tolerance to peppers and have done this before). The doctors ruled out obstruction, virus, and pancreatitis
It has been a month and a half and my symptoms have not gone. I am taking the maximum dose of Zantac (acid reducer) along with around six tums a day with little avail against my pain and nausea. I believe that the lightheaded feelings may indeed be vasovagal because now even when doing simple things such as driving or doing to the mall, I begin to have a panic attack (probably do to the horrible experience i had at camp for two weeks). I still wake up feeling nauseated, with little appetite and feel lightheaded before lunch (around 11). I now beggin to feel better after eating lunch though it is sometimes difficult to keep lunch down.

Do you have any diagnosis of what I have or any way to treat it. I am going to boarding school in a week and if this is not cured, my life will become a living nightmare.
If you need anymore examples I found two cases very similar to mine online at this link:
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Gastroenterology/loss-of-appetite–common-GERD-symptoms/show/983901

Anything you tell me that will help is much appreciated. Also, sorry for the long post, It seems I was sorta venting while writing this as well. Thanks for everything.