Nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, tingling extremites.

I have read all your posts. My son has been going through the same thing for about 3 years now.

He has had many tests. However, we just went to a (new) gastro doctor today and she is doing more tests next week. Please email off the board to find out the results. It may be something that can help all of you.
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I also am experiencing a problem similar to these, and I am also 19 years old. It all started a little more than a year ago, where every morning after drinking I would feel nauseated, dizzy, and was hungry but had no appetite to eat. The thing is, I stopped drinking and it went away. But a little more than a month ago, I was diagnosed with strep throat and took azithromycin. I have a sensitive stomach when it comes to medication, and I am allergic to a lot of antibiotics, so I thought my body was just upset from all the drugs (I also was taking extra-strength acetaminophen atleast 2ce a day to combat the fever). After maybe three days of feeling nauseated, dizzy, loss of appetite, dehydrated, and a tingling sensation in the tips of my fingers, I started to get worried. After 10 days of experiencing these symptoms it slowly started to ease up. For example, the first day I felt these symptoms all day, and around the 10th day it lasted about an hour in the morning. I'm worried because the symptoms have returned starting today, and I have no idea what's going on with my body!!

Wow. I've been suffering from this too. It's only been a month and a half, but i'm so sick of being sick. at the end of june i got diagnosed with a UTI (urinary tract infection). they gave me bactrim and some pain killers, but since then i've been in and out of the emergency room. Before I caught this neverending illness, I weighed 130 pounds, I'm down to 114 pounds now. i also have sharp, intense pains in my lower right abdomen, vomiting, constantly nauseous, cold flashes, headaches, and absolutely no appetite. I went to the emergency room again wednesday. They took another urine sample, blood, and did an x-ray. I was thinking that I had a bacterial ulcer, because I've had them before, but after all the tests came back, my doctor told me the cause of all of this was still the UTI that I unknowingly still had. Of course, a UTI effects the bladder, urethra, ureters, and kidneys., but the kidneys are the most affected during a urinary tract infection.
It is common for a person with a urinary infection to complain that, despite the urge to urinate, only a small amount of urine is passed. The urine itself may look milky or cloudy, even reddish if blood is present. Normally, a UTI does not cause fever if it is in the bladder or urethra. A fever may mean that the infection has reached the kidneys. Other symptoms of a kidney infection include pain in the back or side below the ribs, nausea, or vomiting.

I mean some people wouldn't think they have a UTI with these symptoms, but you can.
Suggest the possibility to your doctor?
Although, if you have a UTI, im pretty sure they see it in your urine.

Hm. I've been having the same episodes for a while now.. I've tried many things but none of them seem to work. Ginger tea might make you feel better. Yes, it's annoying and painful and it stop you from doing the things you need to do in life. I'm 17, female and today I finally decided to go to the doctors.. I'm of Chinese descent and I really don't trust Western medicines or doctors. I prefer Chinese herbalist doctors, they will actually help you and figure out what is wrong with you and actually MAKE you the medicine and cook it for you.

Yes, it's a change from your normal Western doctors and medicines but it's worth a try. Anyways, today I went to the Chinese herbalist doctor and he checked my pulse, felt my right side of my stomach.. pressed on a few spots and asked it it hurt, he asked if I was puking out vile and if pain from my right side of my stomach shot to my back.. he asked if I was drinking large amounts of alcohol .. turns out it might actually be gallstones that are causing the pain. I'm suppose to go back in a few hours to pick up my medicine that he is making, he said I was suppose to take them everyday for a week and see if I get better, so basically I have to drop by everyday to pick it up. You can make this at home on your own stove but I thought it would be more convenient and easier if I payed him to do it. (it doesn't cost much either!)

more info~

What are gallstones?

Gallstones are small, pebble-like substances that develop in the gallbladder. The gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped sac located below your liver in the right upper abdomen. Gallstones form when liquid stored in the gallbladder hardens into pieces of stone-like material. The liquid—called bile—helps the body digest fats. Bile is made in the liver, then stored in the gallbladder until the body needs it. The gallbladder contracts and pushes the bile into a tube—called the common bile duct—that carries it to the small intestine, where it helps with digestion.

Bile contains water, cholesterol, fats, bile salts, proteins, and bilirubin—a waste product. Bile salts break up fat, and bilirubin gives bile and stool a yellowish-brown color. If the liquid bile contains too much cholesterol, bile salts, or bilirubin, it can harden into gallstones.

The two types of gallstones are cholesterol stones and pigment stones. Cholesterol stones are usually yellow-green and are made primarily of hardened cholesterol. They account for about 80 percent of gallstones. Pigment stones are small, dark stones made of bilirubin. Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball. The gallbladder can develop just one large stone, hundreds of tiny stones, or a combination of the two.

I can relate to y'all. I'm a 24 year old girl and for the last 2 years I, too, have been having issues. I was in and out of doctor's offices and the emergency room. They kept trying to tell me it was stress due to the fact that we're military and move every 2 years and we were once again preparing to move again and my husband was preparing to deploy again. Maybe it was a bit due to stress, who knows? Anyways, when it started out.. it was just at night after dinner. I would eat and maybe 5-10 minutes later I was putting my son to bed as quickly as possible then running to the bathroom to throw up. If I couldn't throw up immediately, I would lay in bed and my heart would be racing! I would get extremely hot, my heart racing, I wouldn't be able to catch my breath and eventually go to the bathroom and throw up/gag myself until I threw up for the next two hours and sleep like crap. The doctors would make up bullshit about, "Oh it's an ulcer, try this medicine", "Oh it's this, try this medicine" or sometimes just give me an anti-nausea medication and a glass of water and send me home... after sitting in the emergency room with a 2 year old for 6 hours in the middle of the night... Gotta love military doctors sometimes. (They're not all bad though, don't get me wrong).

Anyways, it came down to them thinking I had appendicitis, my husband was deployed and I was scared that I was going to go to sleep one night and not wake up the next morning. We were in a new town and didn't know many people and I was worried that I wasn't going to wake up in the morning (as in die in my sleep) and something would happen to my son. Dramatic, I know, but if you're going through it then you probably understand. I was at the point that death seemed better than going through it.

So my mom drove six hours and came and picked up me and my son and we spent a month at her house. I came back finally because I was FINALLY!!! able to get into to see a gastroenterologist (pardon my spelling). He diagnosed me having IBS and I thought it was crap. I didn't get diaherrea all the time, just mostly constipated and throwing up and when I eventually did go I got it but that was maybe once every 2 weeks that I did have a bowel movement. Anyways I had an upper endoscopy done and they said they didn't find anything and they gave me a prescription for librax (generic name: clidinium-diazepoxide), told me to get more fiber into my diet, drink more water and get regular exercise.

I've been trying to do all that (btw--fiber one makes delicious chocolate oatmeal bars that taste like raw cookie dough and they each have 9 mg of fiber which is EXCELLENT!) So perhaps it's IBS.. I do still get nauseaus and keep zofran on hand, but I haven't thrown up in months and starting to poop on the regular (YAY!) and try to take my son for bike rides (he's almost 3 now).

I do find I have to take a multivitamin and drink plenty of water, but guess what.. the symptoms are clearing up, I can eat again, and I actually have more energy to actually clean my house and play with my son. The other thing I've been diagnosed with is sinus cysts which can cause a number of symptoms too such as migranes/headaches, sinus infections, nausea, vomiting, vertigo, fatigue, etc. Check into both of these and try some of my suggestions, good luck and I really wish you all the best. I'm sure I'll always battle with this IBS and it's nice to have someone to share with who doesn't say, "Ew I don't want to hear about your poop problems." LMFAO

if you all want someone to talk to or vent to.

Take care, Abby