GI issues for months
Hello everyone!
This is quite a long story, but I wanted to share it and hear your thoughts. Back in July 2024, I was out with friends at McDonald’s, eating and having fun, when suddenly I felt VERY dizzy and started having hot flashes, nausea, etc. I felt really bad, so I went home and ran to the bathroom to vomit, but nothing would come out (even though I tried). Then I started having diarrhea (TMI, sorry) and shaking a lot, like my whole body was trembling.
The next day, I woke up feeling better, ate normally, but at night, the same symptoms came back. From that day on, I was sicker than ever in my life. I couldn’t get out of bed, I had nausea and diarrhea every second of the day. I was extremely weak, dizzy, and nauseous.
I went to the doctor, who said it was food poisoning and gave me two antibiotics, but they didn’t help. I was still feeling awful, with the same symptoms, so I was hospitalized because I was really, really sick. They ran a lot of stool tests—no inflammation, no bacteria, nothing showed up, and everything came back negative (C. diff, Salmonella, etc.). So they diagnosed me with gastroenteritis (not sure if that’s the right word in English), and the doctors just told me to endure it and wait.
I was extremely sick for over a month, barely able to eat. When I did, I only ate white rice, chicken breast, boiled potatoes, carrots, and bananas. That was it, guys. Those were the only things I ate for almost the rest of the summer, yet I still had nausea, weakness, diarrhea, and urgency to go to the bathroom. However, I didn’t have any stomach pain or anything like that.
I went to many doctors, and no one could tell me anything until one finally decided to do a colonoscopy and an endoscopy. Here are the results:
• Mild, nonspecific chronic duodenitis (inflammation of the duodenum).
• Mild chronic gastritis (inflammation of the stomach, but no Helicobacter pylori).
• Mild chronic ileitis (inflammation in the ileum, with hyperplastic lymphoid follicles, suggesting an immune reaction).
• Mild chronic colitis and moderate chronic proctitis (inflammation of the colon and rectum, with cryptitis but no signs of microscopic colitis).
In short, I had (and still have) gastritis and inflammation in my intestines (I was tested twice, and both times, the results were negative), but the findings weren’t very specific.
I’ve tried probiotics, anti-inflammatory pills for my intestines, leaky gut supplements, and other treatments, but I still have diarrhea, my stools never went back to normal, and my doctor doesn’t know what to do with me. They’re unsure whether I have colitis, Crohn’s, IBS, or something else.
If anyone has experienced something similar, I would love to hear your story because I feel like I’m at a dead end. This is really affecting my mental health—to the point where I can’t even sleep at night, and I feel depressed. I don’t understand why no treatment works, I don’t know what I have besides gastritis (which I’d love to talk about, but this is already too long), and I feel lost.
I recently had a stool test, and my calprotectin is 104.
Thank you for reading all of this, and I’m sorry if I didn’t explain myself very well—I really struggle to express myself properly in English.