Sinus infection nausea and diarrhea

I apologize I’m sure you all get this question a lot…I’m a concerned and mentally exhausted Mom of a 16 year old daughter who has been experiencing pain, nausea and vomiting, intermittent diarrhea for 4 years with zero explanation or help from medical professionals.
Their thought is endometriosis or IBS, and cyclic vomiting or abdominal migraines, her symptoms do not match and are constant.
She was most recently diagnosed with a mass in her liver but every other diagnostic test done has been normal. She has had: pelvic and abdominal u/s NORMAL(except for mass) barium X-ray with follow through -NORMAL MRI (due to mass) Endless bloodwork - NORMAL
She suffers from very low BP and was recently diagnosed(unofficially) with POTS.
She is 165cm and 128lbs, she had a 3 month period of no pain and managed to put on some weight but typically she is very thin due to no appetite or desire to eat.
Her stomach pain is often severe and she will throw up from the pain. 24/7 nausea and as such doesn’t want to eat. There is a correlation to the severe pain and eating. Last night she had an unusually larger meal and the pain was the worst it’s ever been. Pain meds don’t help but smaller meals tend to result in less pain but the pain never goes away.
Any input appreciated. She has mental health issues and this has been very very difficult on her.

So I have had a headache for about 2 months. It doesn't feel like a regular muscle tension headache, it feels sinus related. I took a high dose of amoxicillin for two weeks and it did not help. I have no other sinus infection symptoms besides pain. So it just feels like I have sinus swelling or something causing pain. I don't really know. The best way to describe it, maybe, is a constant sinus migraine.
I got covid in Nov 2023 (vaxxed 4 times). I am lucky that basically after that I didn't notice any additional symptons (I have chronic pain and fibromyalgia) and was happy that covid hadn't worsened anything for me. I thought I would get long-term effects from covid since I have such a shitty body, but I just carried on with my normal health problems.
However now since late March I've had bad sinus and head pain. I haven't had a sinus infection or sinus issues since 2014/2015 which is when they resolved. Nor have I ever head a headache this intense for this many weeks since 2012. And again, I don't even think I have felt these particular pain sensations before. I keep thinking, this is so strange. I have accepted at least some of my pain problems are somatic and emotional related. And of course fibromyalgia related. But the severity of the pain of what I'm dealing with isn't adding up, especially since I do all of my self-healing practices (meditation, yoga etc) and health treatments (acupuncture, massage etc) on a regular basis and it just seems to be getting worse. Usually I would get some lowering of the pain for a few days especially after acupuncture but this isn't really happening with this issue. So I am pretty sure this may have something to do with getting covid, at least partially.
Not asking for advice necessarily. I suppose I just wanted to mention it because I feel like it is likely at least a little bit connected to having covid and perhaps wanted to see if anyone has deal with similar problem. And just want to mention it to give some validity to all the potential harmful effects of long covid.

I am 26, medically transitioned ftm. In 2020, I began having episodes of incredibly severe lower right abdominal pain that would last between 10 and 30 minutes. I was also having frequent nausea and diarrhea which continues to this day. I saw a number of gastroenterologists who ruled out essentially everything.
During this time, I became aware of chronic appendicitis, and it seemed to perfectly match all my symptoms. I raised this to my GI but he had never heard of it and honestly I don’t think he believed it was a real thing. This went on for over a year (more like two), then the pain largely subsided. I would still have episodes but far less frequent and severe. It wasn’t interfering with my quality of life anymore, so I let it go. For the last month, I have been having the same pain more often. I just had a CT scan today which came back totally normal.
Is it possible that CA wouldn’t show up on a CT scan if it wasn’t inflamed/I wasn’t having an episode or pain during the scan? Or at this point should I rule it out? Thank you in advance for any input!

I was a mechanic in the army and was never deployed, however, after leaving service I started having multiple sinus infections a year and seasonal allergies. I looked up environmental risks and found that exhaust fumes along with everything else mechanics are exposed to can contribute to sinusitis and rhinitis. Has anyone on here used TERA as evidence to get these two claimed as service connected?

female, 20yo, 113lbs, 5’4 diagnosed PCOS, POTS, MCAS, EOE, autonomic nervous system dysfunction taking microgestin, zofran, klonopin
i woke up 2 days ago with a minor sore throat but had many white patches in my throat. i didn’t think anything of it until i really started feeling weird to throughout the day, like i was going to die.

• my heart rate is staying in 110-170 range and has frequently skipped beats and chest is hurting.
  
• complete lack of appetite cannot eat without gagging and throwing up
  
• a normal/low temp 97.0-98.5
  
• this INSANE uncomfortable restless aching feeling in my entire body and limbs
  
• aching pain in my neck and behind my ears and behind my eyes
  
• lightheartedness, weakness of all limbs
  
• BP shooting up up 150/100 at rest but then drops
  
• stomach upset (gurgling, diarrhea a few times, etc.)
  
• cold sweats, chills, clammy
  
• this overwhelming feeling that i am dying and i have this intuition that i am in serious trouble
  

my parents don’t believe me and think im being dramatic (i live at home with them due to my chronic illnesses) and refuse to take me to the ER. i spoke to my GP and she says it sounds like i’m fighting a bad infection but that i shouldn’t be feeling like i’m literally going to die. she is concerned about my stats. included pick of remaining white patches (they aren’t tonsil stones).
negative for COVID, strep, and waiting on flu test but they said they think it’s negative. my orthostatics are very bad, with my pulse jumping from 63 to 136 when standing with presyncope. i’ve had mono and that’s the only other time i’ve been nearly this ill. everything in my whole body is telling me i need to go to the ER right now but my parents said i can’t call an ambulance and they won’t take me and if i go i have to pay for the whole thing (without insurance).
what do i do? what does this sound like? i dont want to die please help me

So this all started with horrible bloating and pain out of nowhere. (Not classic c diff symptoms) This started back in February and it is now end of May. When my bloating, gas, and pain didn’t go away after a few weeks, I went to a doctor. That doctor did all kinds of stool tests and bloodwork, including C. diff. The only thing that came back positive was the C diff. Result. So I was started on Vancomycin and I thought I would be okay.
Well the Vanco made me worse! In hindsight yeah it should have helped at least a little. So I went to the ER a week after vancomycin with mucus diarrhea and they said the C. Diff was back. I never had this back of poos before. I said I wanted Dificid and they gave it to me. I retested and it was positive again. The Dificid seemed to stop the diarrhea (I now realize was likely a coincidence) and I thought finally I’ll be okay. The month after Dificid I was still having pain, alternating constipation and diarrhea, and inability to eat without bloating and pain. I lost 30 pounds by early May. I thought it was just taking time to heal from the CDF and I was taking all the probiotics and doing all the things to help that. But despite my efforts, I was feeling worse and worse.
Then one day I woke up in the middle of the night with severe pain and had liquid diarrhea the morning. I was rushed to the ER because I passed out because my body was so done. I was starving to death. In the hospital, I saw several infectious disease doctors and they came to the consensus that I tested positive for C. Diff infection I was only ever colonized. Especially since I never had the relentless diarrhea and got worse on the antibiotics.
I had explicitly asked all the doctors I’ve seen to this point if the c diff test here in Calgary Canada was for toxins or just PCR and nobody could tell me. It took me being admitted to the hospital and seeing a top infectious disease doctor for him to tell me that they do not do toxin testing here. They said that unfortunately that’s limitation of testing so they go by symptoms only. Because I am a nurse they assumed I was just colonized due to exposure in hospitals in the past.
Long story short I don’t have CDI and I never did. I was diagnosed with IBS in the hospital. I know that diagnosis is not a real diagnosis and I’ve essentially figured out my own that I actually have SIBO. I’m currently in the middle of doing the elemental diet to heal this and have finally felt relief from the symptoms I’ve been having. I hope I will finally get better now that I am treating the right thing.
I hope my story gets to people so they don’t have to go through what I went through. I’m pretty sure that the vancomycin and deficit probably messed up my dysbiosis in my gut even more. I urge you to make sure that you are getting TOXIN tests. And to correlate your symptoms and risk factors as well. I had no risk factors for C diff infection.
I’m sorry this is long, but I needed to share this since the sub helped me in my darkest times when I thought I had C. diff. I wish you all the best of healing and encourage you to advocate for yourself and don’t stop looking for an answer when you know something isn’t right in your body. I almost got FMT as a last resort and I wonder what my body would’ve been like if I did do something that was that drastic and unnecessary.
Thank you all for your support, but I hope I never need to post in this sub again. I wish you all fulfilling and healthy lives and to heal yourself from this horrible infection.

I got diagnosed half a year ago (m/33). Before that I went for a check up because I had lots of digestion problems and even after finding out I am lactose intolerant I still continued to have trouble, even though it got better. So I went for an other check up and they checked the Immunglobulin-G and also the Immunglobulin-A in my blood but they were fine. But because my mother, my grandmother and my aunt all have celiac disease the doctor thought it would still be worth to investigate further and so they did a gastroscopy.
Turns out my intestinal villi (hope the translation is correct) were slightly shortend. So I took a strict gluten free diet and after some time my bowel problems disappeared. At times I can even eat diary products again but then I still have minor problems.
Last month I was very tired and ate a few spoons of my daugthers nudle soup until I realised it's containing gluten. The first days I had even constipation but nothing else. But after 4-5 days and doing sports, in the evening I felt really sore in my body and very tired. I went to bed and felt cold even though I was wrapped in a thick blanket. I couldn't really eat for days had bad nausea and body aches. After a few days I recovered.
Now just last week again I accidently ate some potato chips with 17% wheet. Again because I was extremely tired but at least I realised my mistake after eating some. I calculated how much I did eat and it was around 3.5g of wheetflour. This time I had no stomach problems or whatsoever. But on day 5 again on the late evening I felt sick after doing sports and having a beer. Again nausea, body aches and really bad brain fog this time on the next day and also I couldnt eat the hole next day which is today.
Sometimes I wonder if I really have this disease because of my negative blood tests and only minor shortage of intestinal villi, but then I remember how much bowel problems I had before. But now again I feel strange about it, because I don't have an instant reaction to it like the people in the posts I did read here, and the first time my hole family had some infection with stomach problems and the second time I had already a cold at the time so it could be coincidence?

Sex: Female Age: 31 Height: 5’6 Weight: 221lbs Medications: Trazadone, Zoloft, Junel FE
I have no known health issues. I have PTSD from childhood trauma (diagnosed by a therapist).
Last Tuesday I suddenly got very nauseous and felt my stomach cramping. The next day I had severe diarrhea. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, I had nausea, stomach cramping, and diarrhea, as well as a fever on Friday. I went to urgent care Friday in hopes I could get something to help the nausea so I could eat. They gave me dicyclomine and ondansetron. I took those as prescribed Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I was still nauseous and cramping, and having diarrhea those days. Finally, I went to the ER yesterday because I started feeling dizzy and light headed and had 0 energy.
While there they took my blood and urine and tested it, it seemed to be fine, and I am not pregnant. They gave me two bags of (I can’t remember the name) but essentially the usual stuff you give to hydrate a person. As well as medicine in my IV for the nausea and cramping. I started to feel better, and I was able to get solid food in me without gagging and I felt comfortable going home. They said I most likely have the stomach flu, and it lasts 7-10 days. I felt ok-ish the rest of the night.
Today, I have experienced even worse diarrhea. I’m still very nauseous. I checked, and since Tuesday I’ve lost 10 pounds. I still feel weak and tired. I’m still having a hard time with food. I don’t know what to do. I’ve never been this sick for this long before. Should I just ride it out now? Should I go back and ask for more tests or antibiotics? I’m scared to wake up tomorrow and be even sicker or dehydrated. I have to be back at work Thursday and I can’t imagine this just stopping by tomorrow night. I don’t want to be “that” person at the ER, but holy sh*t, I’m so insanely miserable I can’t function. Any advice is appreciated.

hey! i’m very much aware that i can’t take medical advice from strangers, but i’m desperate and need ideas on what to check for.
Basic info: 18yo female, 5”4, 85 pounds
I have been sick for ~2 years with no answers. My symptoms started as flu like symptoms and then just severe nausea all of it happened overnight. The nausea lasted 4 days and was so severe i could not eat or drink almost anything at all and ended up in the er. At the er they said everything looked fine, and sent me home with nausea medication. At this point I figured it must’ve been some kind of bug, even though it felt way different. I was still feeling very off two weeks after but I was able to go to school etc. Around a month later I got very sick again, and went back to the doctors. They, again, couldn’t find anything wrong. I kept having to skip school increasingly, and kept going back to the doctors just to get no answers. I felt malaise all the time, nausea was a daily thing, and i was fatigued. My stomach was also much more sensitive than before. I would try to eat out with friends or have sleepovers but would end up extremely nauseous, sweaty or with diarrhea. I eventually got so bad that i had to drop out of school completely, after almost passing out multiple times. I needed atleast three days to recover from one short school day. After that everything got worse.
My symptoms now include:
•nausea for 2 hours in the morning, so bad i can’t get up
•often dull pain in my upper abdomen after eating or drinking, following with terrible nausea
•nausea just all the time even without eating, so my baseline is always nauseous on some level
•early satiety and sometimes after eating i will feel extremely sick and full over 5 hours later
•excessive belching (but with a struggle to burp, so sometimes regurgitation occurs)
•exercise intolerance
•low grade fevers pretty much daily
•fatigue so bad that even talking makes me feel like i’m dying (i get dizzy and weak, run out of breath, my muscles twitch and the fatigue pretty much paralyzes me)
•orthorstatic intolerance (usually my heartrate goes from 60bpm to around 120bpm when i get up)
•low bp (85/55 and sometimes even lower like 75/45) that comes with dizziness sometimes
•headaches that feel like lighting shooting suddenly (usually on the left side of my head or left eye)
•diaphgram and ?spleen? fluttering (every once in a while)
•veins popping in eyes and burning when this happens
•super sensitive stomach (can’t tolerate fructose or any sugar, fatty foods, gluten, dairy, sweeteners)
•diarrhea and constipation
•occasional bad smelling gas
•yellowish pale-ish stools usually
•random joint pains and feeling like my entire body is inflamed and infected
•heat intolerance
•randomly cloudy pee and then normal again
Due to these symptoms i have now lost over 20 pounds.
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Now when it comes to my current test results:
•bilirubin often a bit high
•wbc count consistently dropping since getting sick ~2 years ago
•almost every vitamin deficiency (i am on multivitamins and the levels are getting better, but b-vitamins and calcium don’t want to go up very well)
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in the past i had a parasite, but my parasite tests now are negative.
I have had a stomach ultrasound, gastroscopy (outruled celiac disease), blood tests and stool- and urine samples.
For some background info I’m hypermobile and we have autism running in the family.
If anyone has ideas what could be going on, please let me know, I’m desperate.

I just needed to share because I’m struggling so hard.
I have been on Symbicort 160/4.5 for about a year and some change now, and it’s been working brilliantly. I can take it as little as one puff once a day and be great for the rest of the day as long as I’m not sick! And unfortunately, I have been very sick as of late.
I had a cold that eventually segwayed into a sinus infection that I neglected to treat for a while, thinking it was still a cold and would go away on its own. So, of course, I up the dosage of my meds a bit just in case, as per my illness plan I’ve had since I was a little kid in and out of the hospital for my jacked up lungs. The only issue with that is that I’ve recently moved and I don’t have a new primary in the area yet, so I haven’t been able to refill my prescription. On top of that, my usual pharmacy had me thinking that the reason I couldn’t call in a refill from my old doctor was because my insurance no longer paid for it. They do, of course, but I spent the first 2 days of these 5 thinking that my life was about to be this wheezy, tight-chested hell for the next few months until I either acclimated or worse.
I’ve been taking these years old 90mcg generic albuterol inhalers I found in one of my boxes and they have BARELY helped at all but I’m still here so there’s something! I got a prescription from Teladoc that’ll be filled by the time I leave work, but I just really needed to get this off my chest. That’ll be the only weight off my lungs for the next few hours 😂

I think I have Dysautonomia, and people have told me it sounds like POTS, but I know there are lots under the umbrella of Dysautonomia. Can anyone tell me what it sounds like specifically? Thank you, sorry if this is a stupid question.
My symptoms
Not in any specific order at all
-slurred speech (only during episodes)

• trouble breathing (shallow, I can breathe it just is in an annoying way)

-trouble swallowing
-eye vision blurry constantly now

• diarrhea for months to the point where Everytime id eat id instantly run to the bathroom

-heat interference
-purple skin, also clammy, and had a period of super dry hands flaking off

• weak

-trouble standing during episodes

• anxiety

-dizziness
-nausea (was to the point where I couldn't eat bc I felt like I was gonna throw up, im ok now, I'm on meds)

• brain fog

-mood swings (I'm a teenager honestly don't know if I should count this just bc I've always been emotional)
-pins and needles

• body hurting (especially when waking up)

-bad sleep
-bout of constipation
-memory loss up to 30 minutes during bad episodes
-tremoring of legs/shaking uncontrollably

• sometimes my skin hurts to touch however I feel like I've had this problem for a while now before I even got whatever I have now

I have more but I already put a lot 😞

Hello! I 22F have been dealing with biliary colic since at least early April, this is when symptoms became consistent. I’ve slowly had to stop eating most foods, and am now at the point where almost everything I’m eating is making me feel horrible. As of my ultrasound from a week ago, I have no infection or significant inflammation, but I do have a pile of gallstones. I have been so nauseous and it is getting worse (should be getting Zofran tomorrow). The doctors I’ve seen are all aware of how severe this is getting, I’ve gone from about 106 to 95 pounds since April, but all they do is offer narcotics and tell me to eat a low fat diet. Liquids are seeming to bother me less. It will be at least two weeks before I can get my gallbladder removed. Does anyone have any recommendations on liquids or light foods to help get me through this? Any recommendations for nausea? Any other general recommendations? Thanks!

23f. i was on antibiotics for a "tooth infection" (turns out i didn't even need to take them) and on the very last day of my antibiotics, i had very bad diarrhea. i 100% fucked up the day before by taking the antibiotics on an empty stomach, which hurt like crazy. fast forward almost two weeks and i've been bloated, gassy and have loose stool. i got tested for cdiff because i had it last year, but my test came back negative. i only really get bloated after i eat, but the bloating is so bad that it feels like my stomach is going to burst. and when i have a bowel movement, it's mostly air and some loose stool, but not diarrhea. i messaged my doctor about this, but haven't heard back yet — any advice or similar experiences?

Hello. I'm 36M, ~175 pounds. I believe I'm suffering from ear barotrauma while traveling. I'm on Jeju Island, part of South Korea, and only know a very limited amount of Korean. I've had molds of my ears made for earplugs last fall and know that my left canal is much narrower and this has always been worse on the left side, which can give me issues on that side. I've very commonly suffered airplane ear and it can be somewhat painful and muffle my hearing on that side for several last several hours on that left side, but it has always gone away by the time I go to bed. I don't recall it ever lasting 12+ hours and now I'm on hour 16. I caught a head cold or possible sinus infection from my flight or first day or so in Seoul or maybe a sinus infection. Didn't realize this would amplify airplane ear issues as I've never had to fly with congestion before. A pharmacist in Seoul recommended a product for my head cold which I believe is a runny nose/allergy medication. It is called 코메키나. My understanding is decongestants and cold medicines are much weaker here than in the U.S. as they might not have the same active ingredient. Yesterday I flew to Jeju Island and it's been ~16 hours without my left ear equalizing. Pain is down from maybe a 7 to a 1 or 0. But my hearing still muffled. Because this was lasting a long time I also tried taking 1 advil and 1 walgreens mucus relief. I keep the mucus relief with me for traveling to help with the airplane ear, but I didn't want to mix it with this other medicine I couldn't really read initially so I didn't have much mucus relief while flying. And I also have just realized I was possibly doing it wrong in the past anyway--timing it for the takeoff moreso than the landing, so I wasn't sure it even "did anything." To solve the muffled hearing, I've attempted yawning, Valsalva maneuver, chewing. If my head is inverted, briefly my hearing returns but only until I sit upright again. I have seen some occasional signs that this might break, little hints that it could pop back, so I'm hopeful it will subside in time, but just take longer than normal. In Seoul, I'm pretty confident I can find an English-speaking doctor. However, on Jeju Island, I'm not so sure it will be very easy as they don't seem to get the same degree of tourism from English speakers. I have another short flight to Busan in a few days. Could that flight cause permanent damage if this doesn't go away by then? I also have my personally molded earplugs with me, but from what I've read online, that may not actually do anything. I could possibly ferry off the island instead if it is unsafe to fly, though that is a much longer affair. And then I get back to Seoul on 6/5 via a train and I go back to the U.S. on 6/14 Mainly I want to educate myself on whether it is riskier to fly again and under what conditions (like if this hasn't equalized by then, or my cold hasn't come down, though it seems like it is on the way out now). Or if it is riskier potentially working with a doctor where I miscommunicate due to the language barrier and they somehow end up with the wrong idea.
Normally, I would just go seek out a medical professional instead of asking reddit, but since I may have to fly again before I can easily find an English-speaking near me, I'm not sure what would be best and I appreciate anything you can provide to help me make the most educated decision here.
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TW: mention of eating disorder.
I recently had a colonoscopy & endoscopy that revealed that I have intraepithelial lymphocytes and villous blunting, which can be caused by a small handful of things. I have experienced diarrhea, bloating, fatigue, and occasional nausea after almost every meal for as long as I can remember. I’ve known for two decades that I’m at least lactose intolerant and have recently discovered I also have a sensitivity to cruciferous vegetables, legumes, and quinoa. I have been anemic for years, and my bloodwork has been negative for Celiac antibodies (value of <0.5). On top of all of this I also had my gall bladder taken out back in 2017, so spicy and fatty foods also tend to hurt me. I have disordered eating histories of both binging and restricting food, so that further complicates my relationship with food and eating.
My GI specialist has told me to try a GF and dairy-free diet for 4-6 weeks to see how it goes, and we will have our first follow-up appointment post-endo next week. I recently tried eating out at a couple of different restaurants and had mixed experiences. I’m finding that when I eat things like vegan foods that are processed I get a lot of gas/bloating, as well as some diarrhea and cramping/fatigue. I am suspicious that I may have to do some further food allergy/sensitivity testing via elimination diet and/or actual tests.
I am feeling really overwhelmed and discouraged by how complicated my dietary needs have become, and I am worried about my quality of life. I’ve always been a foodie and I enjoy connecting with people over meals, eating out, etc. I can live with having to make some adjustments, but I sense that I am about to be on an incredibly restrictive diet that will affect my social life, my mental health, and my grocery budget. I am very aware of the importance of sticking to whole foods, produce, proteins, and complex carbs as sources of nutrition, but it feels like I am going to have to stick to a small list of acceptable foods moving forward that will burn me out on eating and exacerbate my eating disorder (restrictive).
Is anyone else in this position? How do you handle this, and what has your life looked like since you’ve made those changes? I really need encouragement and support, and it feels like no one in my life really gets it or understands.

I am going through a crap time with my sinuses again. Have a doctor's appointment tomorrow to either get a nasal spray or antibiotics if I am lucky! But looking to see if anyone had any experience with any of this?
Always had issues with my sinuses and ears. As a kid I always had ear infections. As an adult it turned into sinus pressure, always get a head cold and general stuffyness. It's only in the last couple of years that I get full on infections. My nose was broken as a kid so that could explain some of it.
I quit smoking over a year ago and swapped to vaping and in all honestly it hasn't had the positive impact I was hoping it would - doctors always blamed smoking.
Pretty sure I am allergic to mould, dust, dust mites and cats. No mould in the house but everything else is. Again doctors don't take me seriously on allergies. I had a full blown asthma attack a couple of weeks ago from cleaning my carpets - thankfully a friend gave me their inhaler! Also lactose intolerant and possible wheat!
I don't have a dentist as the UK is shot. Can't afford private either but I also grind my teeth and clench my jaw (and hands) in my sleep especially when I am stressed - been a very stressful 18 months and got worse recently. I don't think my pain is a tooth infection as I have no actual tooth pain, and the pain isn't like anything I have had before when it's been my teeth. Also the issues have been going on like this for well over a year... Mouth guard worth a try?
I am not in constant pain all the time. Bad times normally come after a bad cold. I am on week 4 after 2 back to back colds - school age kids that are germ pits this year.
I have used a nasal rinse for a few years and normally helps. I do only use it when I think I have an infection though. Should I use it all the time?
Use a beconase spray and take allergy meds. Did use a decongestant last week for a few days as I thought it was my beconase spray - doctors have told me not to use them!
Just want to try and get on top of it all and try not to go through through this all the time.
Any help or advice would be massively appreciated.

I'm in both the allergy and MCAS groups until I can work out what's wrong with me and I'm currently on a waiting list to be seen by the allergist in the UK. It's 8 months away though.
Got issues after COVID but a few months before that I had just finished a treatment of oregano oil tablets and probiotics for some food poisoning and parasites I'd discovered I'd had from a private bowel test (healthpath one). Before the course finished I was always fatigued and had constant diarrhea with fatty stools etc plus bloating etc etc. I felt amazing once it had cleared up - like a new person!
Then I got COVID and 2 years later now have anaphylactic allergies to a couple of specific foods plus other food sensitivities that are growing. I avoid them and had felt much better but now I'm also suffering from constant bloating and distended stomach, awful fatigue ie where I have no energy to do anything much in the day that requires energy. And sometimes I get random dizzy spells and nausea.
I don't eat any almonds/gluten/ wheat/ rice/ dairy/soya or much processed foods and eat quite healthily as limited choice on the processed foods as they all contain my 'allergens'. I get very ill if I eat the above and two give me anaphylactic reactions within minutes or max within the hour depending on the quantity I consume.
So back to my post...
I've had a few NHS blood IGe tests that have come back negative to these foods above so my doctor is pondering possible MCAS or something else. Sibo hasn't been mentioned but I know MCAS can cause allergy reactions without IGe but can sibo??
Or is it possible that I might have both at the same time?
I take daily a good mix of probiotics, vit d, multivitamins, omegas, and some other products for perimenopause. (Note the latter has nothing to do with my stomach issues per se.)
I'm stumped as to what to do next ie sibo test, another course to treat possible regrowth of those parasites again (I don't have diarrhea though as I did before) The doctor is pointless in asking. He just says I have to wait my 8 months to rule allergies out 100% before I can referred to see anyone else!! Can't afford to spend thousands on private. So not sure what my next step is...

I was sick two-three weeks ago and was only given a steroid to get better - Flu/sinus infection. Last week on Tuesday my left part of my face was hurting - below my eye, i couldn’t go to sleep until i took some advil. This past weekend ive had a toothache its kept me up at night. Cold air and breathing would keep me up. I took advil again and went back to sleep. I went into the dentist today the tooth #13, and they couldn’t see anything. Not sure what to do, they did give me ammoccilin to see if it helps. This only happens at night time. Again im not sure what to do.

So I posted about 2 months ago regarding some stomach symptoms I've been experiencing for some time. I was diagnosed with PSA last year and I know once you have an autoimmune disease you're at a much higher risk for all of them. Well I started treating with a GI and they scheduled me for a Colonoscopy/Endoscopy in June. My rheumatologist had me discontinue Humira, it also wasn't helping as well as it should with joint issues, until all he tests come back and I ensure it's not a stomach infection caused by immunosuppressive meds. Well last week I got confirmation there was no sign on infection but that same day I noted what I've been told to look out for, a sign that I'm bleeding in my upper GI. I was also suffering pretty badly from a sinus infection and allergies and I felt like I was dying. I had no energy and was dizzy/lightheaded. I went to my doctor and she cautioned that I may need to go to the ER. I touched base with my GI and they gave me no choice.
I spent 2 days in the hospital and had my colonoscopy and endoscopy after all. I didn't eat or drink for 2 days and I hardly slept. The tests came back as Gastritis and they sent me home. I've been a zombie since I got back. No energy and no strength. I've taken long naps and slept more than usual at night. This is much, much worse than my usual PSA tiredness. As I sleep and eat I feel a little better every day but it's slow progress.
I'm wondering if anyone else has this same experience? I've had these GI symptoms for years and I've asked about them multiple times with doctors. They always tell me to take probiotics and then dismiss it. Tumeric made things a lot worse so I have eliminated it but that last 2 months things have really come to a head.
I know many of you had a lot of difficulty getting diagnosed with PSA, I'm one of the lucky ones that got diagnosed almost immediately. Am I starting that journey with IBD now too?

Hi all, I just need to share with someone about how I feel. (Not Diagnosed for H.pylori but my experience suspecting)
For the last 6-8 months I noticed my stomach has felt tight, a lot of pressure under my ribs it feels like I've eaten 20 massive meals in one go even if all I manage to eat is a yoghurt or a protein bar. Dealing wit constant nausea, dizziness and feeling light headed in major waves. Ive been suffering with nausea since I was 16 and im 22 now.
Started off with bloating and then the sudden and constant burping started, thought it was reflux or indigestion as my partner suffered from chronic reflux.
I got assessed, doctor assumed it was stomach ulcer and gave me tablets go treat it, said it could be H.pylori but because of my age it's "isn't likely" sent me to get blood tests and ultrasounds done.
The antibiotics didn't help, they provided a little. It of relief but it felt worse after the treatment. Ultra sound showed nothing and the blood test that were ordered they didn't even bother to test for it despite it being requested.
Getting worse now, wake up and first thing in the morning im nauseas, throwing up nearly everyday, constant fatigue, muscle weakness, i can't eat my heart constantly palpatates, I can't walk in a straight line some days I get such bad vertigo. Last few days is constant headaches, sometimes I can't keep water down, I can't focus, I get so sick I can't go to work or I have to go home and its horrendous.
I'm so scared I'm going to lose my job because I've been so chronically sick these last few weeks and months because it's been so debilitating.
Took myself to the hospital the other day because the nausea and headaches and vertigo and the tension in my stomach was so bad my ribs hurt, I felt like I couldn't breathe my heart was racing. I hate going to the hospital but I was so desperate I needed help.
The doctor who was assigned to me didn't even bother trying to help me. I felt so weak I was falling in and out of conciousness I felt like I was going to vomit or fai nt in the bed.
Didn't feel my stomach, didn't do any tests, described all my symptoms and just kept dismissing me saying it was because I have stress and that it's "just reflux" he said to me and I quote: " it could he H.pylori, but it sounds like you just have reflux, because it's been constant for to long we can't help you. I'm to busy"
Gave me reflux medication and kicked me out. I cried in the car on the way home.
Had to go home tonight from work because I felt so sick I thought I was going to pass out, Been having fevers and chills, sweating, headaches.
I've always struggled with gaining weight, mainly due to living with a severe mental health disorder and partly due to my parents relationship with food when I was growing up has formed very terrible and potentionally life threatening habits.
I'm losing so much weight I'm nervous that if I don't grt treated soon not only will it get worse but im going to end up in a ward with feeding tubed down my throat.
I've dropped so much weight that I'm now sitting at 46kg, dropping 5kg overnight, (22yrs, Male, 173cm in height)
I broke down and cried again today, the sickness is getting so much, it's destroying my life it's ruining my work, it's causing me so much anxiety and even more stress.
I can't eat, I have no desire to, the thought of eating stresses, it makes me feel sick. Nothing is appetising and I judt Don't feel hungry anymore.
I feel lost, I dont know what to do. The doctor I see flies interstate once a month (I see them cause I need certain medication) and every other doctor in my city is either not taking new patients or the waiting times to see a doctor as a new patient are around 2 months.
I can't keep living like this it's hell. It's hell being told it's just anxiety and stress, it's hell being told "it could be cancerous, but i really think it's just reflux" I'm tired of feeling guilty and stressed about being so sick I have to miss work or go home early and then spend more money and even more stress trying to organise a medical certificate for work.
I've probably spent around $350+ in medical certificates for work just because of this bacterial infection. Not including the constant repeats and refills for nausea tablets because doctors only every give me a maximum of 10 tablets at a time and some days are so bad I need 2-3 just to get some relief from the constant nausea and dizziness.