I've had, in the past 2 weeks, 3 episodes of out of the blue nausea, vomiting, etc. which lasts for about 24-48 hours then goes away and leaves me with severe muscle aches. I actually got in to see my doc today after explaining what all was going on. He agreed with what the on-call doctor said which was that it sounded like my gall bladder was acting up. So, he ordered lab work and an ultrasound, but I ended up in the ER because the pain was so bad. Well, the doctor there said it didn't seem like gall bladder, but more like an ulcer. Anyway, I got to drink a lovely little "GI cocktail" which coated and numbed everything from my throat down. I was also given pain medicine and anti-nausea medicine and heavy duty Rx to pick up. I have to take one of the meds EVERY night with a lovely chaser of Maalox *and* Mylanta...joy joy joy. I will still have the ultrasound done next week, even though the bloodwork came back normal.
Right now I'm in pain...muscles are too tight and everything is just annoying right now. We'll see how everything goes with this medicine combination and if it works, assume that everything that's been happening really is just an ulcer.
What slays me is that they said to cut caffeine (at the most I have
2.5 cups of coffee a day, if that), cut nicotine, which I've been trying to do but since I've been getting sick, they aren't appealing anymore, and reduce stress....no ideas of what diet, other than not to skip meals and to have 3 meals with protein and 3 small snacks every day.Oh well...thought I'd update......
Larisa