Upper middle abdominal pain after eating may be from a gastric ulcer. It's a dull, deep, constant pain, and it's typically better on fasting. Vitamin C, aspirin, and all drugs containing acid may cause this ulcer, and they cause pain when you already have an ulcer. Diagnosis is with endoscopy.
If the pain is under the right rib cage, this is usually from gallbladder (or bile ducts). Pain is like a constant cramp, lasting from minutes to hours. Pain often radiates in right shoulder or scapula.
About your other problem - with brain...In intestinal fungal infection (candidiasis), a substance acetaldehide enters the blood and brain and causes symptoms, like in - hangover (often described as foggy mind, also sleepiness..).
But if your problems are more punctuate, as one with swallowing and other, then you should see neurologist. Epilepsy or transient brain ischemia may cause your problems. Even with neurologic examination (done in neurologist's office) some impaired brain function may be determined.
I am seeing my surgeon this friday. She is nicer than my reg doctor. Yet she cancelled my first endoscope and now I am waiting for my June 13 booking. I am going to talk her into moving it up closer as one can only loose so much weight.
She had me try Metimucill and I almost lasted 2 weeks on it. BOY OH BOY...that made everything worse! Just one little pill a day and lots of water. It was making things worse just like Nexium does and acidophillis made things worse too.
weird.
Hi there again,
The pain is in my upper stomach. not really in my throat. When I had a barium swallow, it showed miled acid reflux. Nothing major. I do not usualy get heart burn and swallowing creats no pain at all. Sometimes I have choking bouts and trouble swallowing even water. Not due to pain but more like my body isn't working with what my brain wants to do.
As far as thrush, I have expected it for some time cause I do have what you describe. But no doctor seems to matter about it. I am on Beclomethason which can cause oral thrush but I rinse out my mouth always.
Painful swallowing is called "odynophagia". (You might want to search).
Painfull swallowing may be from neurological reasons, or from gastrointestinal reasons, like reflux. You feel any heartburn? If reflux was causing your swallowing pain, then you'd also had pains after you lying down. If pain was from reflux, obvious inflammation of esophagus would be found on esophagogastroscopy.
Do you have oral thrush (tongue coated with thick white patches), or itching anywhere?
Thanks for the input. You sound like you know what your talking about.
Yes, I can not eat in the sense that if I do, I get immediate intense pain. Does not matter what I eat. The pain lasts 12 hours and is as intense as labor pains. My stomach also bloats and the food sits in the stomach for 6 to 15 hours. I feel poisoned and can not breath very well. I get nausea and sometimes throw up. I get reffered pain to my shoulder blades and can hardly take in a breath. I have been this way for a year and a few months. It always follows the same pattern. A few days to a week were I can eat small bits of certain things with lots of pain. Then I go a month or two and can not eat anything without serrious pain at a level 9 or 10. So I don't eat and I live on tea, which oddley enough feels the best on my stomach. Sometimes I can have Equate nutritional drinks.
About EEG:
EEG is quite accurate and sensitive in discovering abnormal brain waves. But it can detect seizures only during an attack, not before or after that. Hospitalisation and constant measuring of EEG would be needed to "catch" eventual seizures.
Change of smell and other symptoms you describe may arise from some physical problem in the brain, CT or MRI would be necessary for that. I don't know how you will convince doctors to order you for these investigations. You may remind them that you have cavernous tumor in liver, and thrombosis, which both may affect other organs including the brain.
Your symptoms resembles ones in stroke, but it's hard to tell much here online, without making physical examination.
You were not able to eat? What do you mean - not able to swallow?
The pain when I eat is imediate. it is like being in labor with birth pains but they may last 12 hours with no let up.