First, it really started close to the time I had my gallbaldder out, alhough I cannot say it has been constant all of that time since then. Basically, I could describe the symptoms as a “raw, hungry, slight nausea” feeling most of the time. Sometimes eating will relieve it, but sometimes eating will make it worse or make no change.
In layperson’s terms, it really feels like I drank way too much beer the night before and my stomach is agitated, raw, hungry, but yet a bit nauseated at the same time. Kind of like a medium to sometimes strong hangover feeling.
My stomach was scoped last summer and everything was fine. So, the Doctors put me on Klonopin 2mg (2x/day) for anxiety when it was really bad around last February (so bad all I could do was lay on the couch because the nausea part was so bad). The Klonopin helped to some degree.
I am also on Nexium 40mg. I tried it 2 times a day, but that really does not seem to make a difference, so I take it once a day.
So, overall my stomach has not gotten any better and sometimes develops into an achy hangover type pain (sometimes leading to a bloated feeling but not as much since I don’t eat as much as I used to) and upset/nausea feeling. I guess if I had to sum it up if someone was holding a gun to my head and needed an explanation, I would say that I am almost ALWAYS “aware” of my stomach area and that it feels like I have a hangover because of the symptoms of an irritated/hungry/nausea feeling that sometimes on a scale of 1-10 is occassionally only about a 1-2, usually around 5-6, and sometimes up to a 10.
In addition to the daily issues, I have a tough time sleeping sometimes because I wake up with stomach pains in the night. I normally take a little Mylanta and that helps enough to help me go back to sleep.
I think that bile is leaking back into my stomach causing all of this? What can I do?