It all started a few months ago, I had an intestinal impacted and was hospitalised until it had all cleared. It wasn't at all pleasant.
After coming out of the hospital I started experiencing problems with lactose, gluten and wheat. After eating any of these I would experience stomach cramps and pain. It started to put me off of my food and I switched to lactose, gluten and wheat free products where possible.
More recently I lost just over a stone in weight in just over two weeks.. A lot of people would be pleased with the weight loss but I wasn't as I hadn't been on a diet or done anything to assist the weight loss and it worried.
Then last week I started being sick, the pain in my stomach was unbearable and I couldn't even keep fluids down.
I went to see my GP and he said he suspected a stomach ulcer due to my medications and advised me to stop them completely, this caused more problems and the sickness got worse. I was beginning to pass out and feel really dizzy. I saw my GP three days in a row and he finally suggested I may need to go to hospital but I was reluctant. I was told if it continued and the pain worsened then I must call for an ambulance.
The same night I went into hospital and was given fluids and sent home. The next day I was taken into hospital again, given more fluids and had blood tests which came back fine. There was nothing wrong but I couldn't keep anything down.
I went home and battled the sickness as much as I could. At this point I hadn't eaten for three days but I was still being sick. That night I started bringing up my stomach lining and passing out, I don't remember anything. The next thing I knew I was in hospital. They put me on IV fluids 3 times, but I was still being sick. A nurse came in and took my blood sugar, it was 2.4 and that's when they started to worry. They put me on two lots of IV glucose, glucose gel in my mouth which I would bring straight back up but it wasn't changing my blood sugars.
They tried to get me to eat cornflakes with lots of sugar on them, I really did try but it was making the sickness worse. Eventually my blood sugar put itself right and I was put on the emergency assessment unit overnight. The sickness subsided slightly and the next morning I was aloud to go home. No diagnosis was given, I was just told I would be contacted to go back for an endoscopy and further investigations.
I haven't heard anything yet because it has been the bank holiday weekend so hopefully someone will contact me tomorrow.
I'm still in pain with my stomach and feel constantly sick. I really hope they find out what is wrong and do something to help put it right. My GP now thinks that it is linked to EDS, I guess we shall find out soon...
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