RE: Bile in stomack (also burping)

[Guest guest]

Gerard,

If I remember well, an ulcer can also

cause bile in the stomach, but I guess an ulcer would have been spotted in the

gastroscopy.

Regards,

Chaim Boermeester, Israel.

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[mailto: ] On Behalf Of Gerard

Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008

14:19

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Subject: Bile in

stomack (also burping)

Dear All,

Last week I had gastroscopy to see what may be causing certain pain

attacks that I have every couple of weeks. These pains seem to start

with burping a lot, and then discomfort in the stomack area (below

the sternum), and pain when pushing a certain spot just below the

ribs on the lower right side. The pain may radiate to somewhere

between the right nipple and right arm-pit. The gastroscopy (which

happened to be not so long after or partly during a long lasting

attack) apparently did not show much except for bile in the stomack,

which is not supposed to be there (duodenogastric reflux).

Does anyone know if bile in the stomack might be associated with

PSC? I read that without gall-bladder, then some bile might end up

in the stomack, but I still do have a gall-bladder (and they have

never seen any stones). I also read somewhere that burping might be

a mechanism to try to push reflux down.

Anyway, in a couple of weeks I will have a follow-up consult with my

hepatologist to discuss the results. If anyone has any information

about bile in the stomack or suggestions on how to differentiate if

this is caused by PSC or something else (until now the hepatoligist

suggested the attacks were IBS), I am very interested.

Gerard