“Sick for 2 months and I keep getting different diagnoses and I'm getting worse?”
I don't know if you will ever see this but I'm desperate and scared. I am from Barbados and I have been sick for 2 months now and though I went to doctors they either don't take me seriously or gave me meds that don't work. Right now my symptoms are that I'm breathing up this acid gas that burns and dries out my mouth and hurts my jaw. Also, the gas has spread to the back of my neck and head. It makes my temples hurt and I constantly have to massage my temples and the back of my head to push out the built-up gas before it starts to hurt and burn. This is also causing dry, red eyes, the nerves in my tongue to pinch, difficulty breathing in through my mouth but not my nose, also my body is warm, my skin is dry, my muscles hurt and my urine to be hot and at times I get a stinging feeling from my upper left abdomen. I drink water all day and I am diabetic but my sugars are under control.
Female | 29 years old
Complaint duration: 2 months
Medications: jardiance, metformin, lantus, apidra
Conditions: diabetes, asthma, pcos, peripheral neuropathy ,
4 Answers
Perhaps you need to see an endocrinologist to have a more thorough workup. Take with you results of all previous studies.
Please see a cardiologist immediately to make sure your heart is ok. After that, once you are cleared by the cardiologist, you can see a gastroenterologist.
I think your doctors are taking you seriously and trying to help, but they are probably confused by your symptoms, like I am. Acid in the stomach can reflux as liquid, not gas, and this would typically cause heartburn. There are many other non-GI symptoms that you are getting so it seems like the problem is not GI in origin. If it was stomach acid causing all of the symptoms, then a simple anti-acid pill like omeprazole would control it. If an anti-acid pill doesn't help, then the problem is not from stomach acid and I would look for other causes, such as neurologic, endocrine, cardiac, pulmonary, etc.
Being a juvenile diabetic, you have to be on insulin. You cannot be on oral diabetic agents. You need a thorough blood exam and a gastroscope to determine the cause.
