My stomach is not working very well

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Like 5 days ago I woke up, took my meds and supps and ate as usualy, and boom,

stomach pain.

Strong. Lasted all day. Then I got flu symptoms. I had just started

Copper, Iron, Vitamin A and Arimidex a couple of days earlier. I stopped

taking those the day of the stomach pain. ER couldn't help me. GP

couldn't do anything for me except an infection analysis of my stools.

(Takes 1 week to get the result from that one, but it was always

negative before, so...) - I've suffered from SOME KIND of stomach

problem since 2007, just before all my problems with everything started

for real. I have tested myself for HIV, all the Hepatitis',

and the basic tests you can do at the GP's. I have done one test at

Genova before, a stool panel of some sort at a private clinic over here,

since GP's don't use labs such as Genova cause they're too

" alternative " and don't know how to

read the results from those tests. Don't remember the results from that

test btw, but I think I was allergic to milk or something. So here I

am, more than 3 years later, and my stomach just seems to get worse and

worse. I started eating gluten-free like 2 1/2 years ago on my own (!),

just to be sure it wasn't gluten causing my symptoms: Pale stools, soft

stools, smelly stools (acidic/food-like smell), badly digested stools.

So my stools were like that BEFORE I quit eating a " normal " diet, but

they didn't really change after I quit gluten either. I recently started

eating a more strict LOW CARB diet, no sugar etc. No change in stools.

Sometimes I get the feeling that my body and stomach is not getting what

it needs when I only eat meat and veggies. Like, I am not getting

enough fiber or something. My mother things my diet is nuts cause she

" knows " the body needs more variation than that. Well, I am simply just

trying to follow orders of my doctor

(Hertoghe) and also the wonderful mods in the NTHA-groups (). I am

trying

to do everything correct with the diet. SO IN THE LAST FEW DAYS, I've

had constant pain in my stomach, a lil bit up and down. Like in the

mornings AFTER those first painful 24 hours of stomach pain, I have felt

no pain really, just some " uneasy " feelings. After I eat, however, the

pain comes back. In the last 2 days I've had ONLY soup with turkey

meatballs in it. Hertoghe told me to eat ONLY boiled foods while having

stomach issues. So I am. I HAVE LOST MY DRIVE TO EAT IN THESE PAST FEW

DAYS. Like I don't want food. I wonder what this can be. I also don't go

to the bathroom 3-4 times a day for Number 2 anymore, which I did

before - WHICH I ADMIT was kind of often. Now it's ONCE a day, and it's

in the morning - But it seems like it's difficult emptying myself. Like

my system is out of power down there. Today, as well as yesterday, the

stool remains very pale, almost white. BUT well put

together, like not soft. Weird. Just weird. Something is up and I want

to find out what. I am sick and tired of walking around with tons of

issues at the same time. It's wearing me out. Mentally and physically. I

need to make ends meet. And I need to make that happen NOW. I am trying

to balance hormones, but I doubt they can affect my stomach very much. I

had stomach issues while I felt good. While I've been sick for 3 years.

And now, while feeling improvement in the past 10-11 months taking my

hormons. I feel like... My gall-bladder might not be working or

something. Of course I ask the question; WHY aren't GP sending me to a

colonoscopy,

a full CT/MR/X-Ray checkup of my abdomen, etc. etc. I had to force him

today to get a requisition for a colonoscopy. I hope that'll happen very

soon. I feel like my stomach is dysfunctioning. And this is not just

FEAR. This is a physical fact. Thanks for listening up, and please

comment if you have anything wise to

say. I'd love to get some feedback from people in " my situation " with

Hypo, AF etc.

Remember: Even if I quit Copper, Iron, Vitamin A

and Arimidex only after taking those for 2-3 days, I still feel bad in

my stomach after 5 days of not taking those. Hertoghe agrees I shouldn't take

any of these pills til my stomach

has healed. I just wonder if it ever will. cause it has been " WRONG " somehow

since 2007!

Best Wishes to all,

H. in Norway