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Stomach pain for over a month, cause for concern?

So a little background information, I was bulimic for many years, from around age 12 till age 23, with a few years of recovery in there. I’ve been recovered for over a year now. At the end of February I had what my doctor thought was a stomach virus, with really bad stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting. I got over that in a few days, but the stomach pain lingered and I lost my appetite for a while and it hasn’t come back fully. I’ve lost weight unintentionally (though with history of an eating disorder sometimes it’s hard to gauge if there was any triggers). My stomach pain flares up just about every week and it’ll be painful enough that I have to take a tums or just rest until it goes away, sometimes it’ll be accompanied by sweating or pain somewhere else like my back. I’ve also had chest pain but not like burning, it was on my left side of my chest and hurt while driving enough that I had to pull over. And I’ve had other things like increased teeth sensitivity despite using sensodyne, bad taste in my mouth, and shortness of breath that lasted over a week and some coughing (thought to be allergies and stress). I was tested for Covid since I’m an essential worker and couldn’t go back to work since I had coughing and shortness of breath  and that was negative, as expected. And my doctor thinks I should see a gastroenterologist but with the virus going around she thinks I should wait. My family has a history of needing gallbladder removal. and also today I noticed my stool was dark in color instead of a usual light color. I feel unwell overall, but I don’t like to take medication unless I know the problem and it’s to help treat the source rather than the symptoms. But lately I’ve been turning to tums and I tried Prilosec for a bit.
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This is a long shot because some of your symptoms are extra to what I had.  I got Norovirus in November last year, and after 5 months of constant, stomach pain, nausea, stomach cramps, rumbling tummy and then stress leading to depression. As well as unexplained weight loss, it turns out I’ve been left intolerant to, lactose,  gluten,  oats and eggs, I am newly diagnosed and at the moment i’m 4 weeks into an elimination diet, it is actually working but I’m told it will take a few months to get it all out of my system. Just something for you to think about.
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Glad that was able to help! Since I struggle with food restriction, the doctors were avoiding that route but the gastroenterologist said it was severe reflux so following a strict diet to reduce the symptoms as well as medication is what I’ll have to do! Hope you are feeling better!
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I have a lot of stomach issues too.  Such fun. How's your cough?  Any better?  With regards to the stomach issue, I would personally follow your doctor's advice and schedule to go to a gastroenterologist down the road.  This happens once a week (ish)?  Not daily or constant?  I'd get out of this rough patch with covid-19 and deal until then. What you can do is keep a really good food journal writing down everything you eat and tracking when you have the symptoms.  This gives you an idea if it is anything dietary related.  
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I felt better but then way worse, so met with the gastroenterologist over a virtual visit and right away he knew it was acid reflux caused by my bulimia, so I have an endoscopy scheduled and a strict diet to follow and omeprazole twice a day, to hopefully ease symptoms!
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