about 6month ago? I got into binging/purging cycle.. but after a month, i stopped binge eating because i’ve always had tremendous stomach pain (guessing my stomach stretched too much). Problem is, now I purge after whatever I eat.
Whatever I eat, my stomach gets really disturbed.. like.. I don’t know how to describe this.. feels like I have to throw up.
and it gets worse when I have sour fruits and food with high fat.
just doesn’t seem to digest it. (lack of enzyme or sth??)
and I purge eveyday! all day! I don’t even stuck my fingers to my throat to throw up!
it just does.. automatically.. do I have am acid reflux? like GERD?
I want to stop this.. I want to eat without having to throw up..
my throat gets swollen by end of the day and it hurts a lot.. sometimes can’t even swallow my saliva.
please don’t tell me I need to get help or tell my parents or sth.
I want the answer. what kind of treatment is necessary here?
what kind of pills? am i bulimic? help me..

This may be a bit long, but please hear me out, I’m thinking about ending my life over this (it may seem stupid but ‘not knowing’ is driving me insane)

I’d like you guys to help me do the impossible and aid me in finding out what this problem is. It started on June 6th, 3 months ago. I went on a drinking binge and had 3 hard drinking sessions, one at night, one the next morning, then the next night I tried gin for the first time.

After drinking about half a bottle of gin, I got short of breath, so I stopped (keep in mind I’ve drank more alcohol than this, so likely a reaction w/ the gin). I wokeup the next day, still short of breath and with a cough sensation near my trachea, like a constant tickle.

Since that day I’ve been from doctor to doctor. I’ve had an EKG, lung workup, Chest X-Ray, blood tests, an barium swallow test, an endoscopy, a laryngoscopy, a naturopathic assessment, acupuncture, and homeopathic treatment,

Everything came up negative, and the alternative medicine is giving me ideas but they aren’t curing me.

Let me make it clear that, no, I do not have the new fallacious title of "GERD", that is a condition created by the pharmaceutical company that basically means "acid indigestion". I was thoroughly tested for it as I tried Aciphex, Zegerid, Protonix, Zantac, Pepcid AC, Prilosec, and tons of OTC and home remedies for "heartburn", but what I have is not heartburn, as it was unresponsive to all of these things. Also, the endoscopy showed no inflammation or irritation, and the laryngoscopy showed nothing as well.

The symptoms are an extremely intense throat tickle that is persistent throughout the day, regardless of what I eat, when I eat, or how I eat. It does not hurt to swallow at all. Often times the cough will subside and turn into a heat that goes around the neck, even to the back of the neck and shoulders that spreads to my arm at times.

At this point, my doctors are pinning it on psychological factors, however, I have no history of having psychological symptoms. This just happened overnight, and I’m open to the idea that I may be "manifesting my own symptoms", but I feel that it is physical.

I’ve became severely depressed, feel like my life is ruined, and get nostalgic for when I didn’t have to deal with this. I feel like a completely different person because my well-being has been torn away by this mysterious intense tickle/burning that never ceases and has no explanation whatsoever aside from "gin" possibly bringing it on.

I have tried the spiritual route, people telling me that I have to "let something out" or "accept it", that’s BS, I tried that and it didn’t work. I changed my diet, stopped drinking, etc. it’s still here.

The only 2 other things that my doctor(s) can think of is a thyroid problem or allergies. I’ve never had allergies to anything ever, and the mostlikely possible allergy would be the birds in my house that aren’t mine (staying temporarily, been here for 6 years).

I’d like any help I could possibly get, I am losing my mind. My doctor (who is a very good doctor and an expensive one) has basically told me she’s seen cancer patients with less mysterious/odd symptoms and that my problem was beyond her expertise and likely psychological.

It’s stopping me from functioning, I had to leave college for the day twice because I got so anxious/nostalgic and didn’t feel like myself. I even got scammed by a fake naturopath until I found a real one, that’s how desperate I am.

I ‘d really like some advice…thanks.

So ever since Freshman year of high school, I’ve felt that there was something not quite right with me mentally. I kept looking up things trying to figure out what it could be, I went from Bipolar, ADHD, OCD, GERD, but my parents started saying that I was becoming a hypocondriac and that i’m normal and its all normal. Now as a Junior looking back on it, yea alot of those symptoms are pretty generic that could just be associated with just being a teenager. I know that i’m not a hypocondriac, because it doesn’t even matter if a doctor tells them they’re fine, they’re still not gonna believe it, I on the other hand would believe it if a doctor told me I wasn’t, I just don’t like uncertainty, and I’d like professional advice as opposed to my parents, cause my father is highly insensitive and because of my mom’s traumatic childhood, she thinks that I’m selfish and too stuck on my emotion, and thinks i’m just a wimp. Also my mother thinks i’m trying to find an exuse to blame all my bad behavior on, which is not the case at all, im trying to find and understand why i’m being the way i am.

But with BPD the sypmtoms arn’t generic things that could go along with anyone can identify with. Aparently there a chance you could have BPD if you meet 5 of the 9 criteria:

1.•Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
2.•A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
3.Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
4.•Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
5.•Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
6.•Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
7.•Chronic feelings of emptiness
8.•Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
9.Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

The one’s with dots are the ones I deal with, but what hitting me really hard thats really making want to know so I can get treatment is the relationship aspect. I’ve been involved with a guy for 2 1/2 years on and off, its not sexual, we havn’t even had sex together. Alot of the problems, probably about 90% of the problems that we have, are caused be me. Like I had learned of BPD a few months ago, but then later I started to shrug it off as maybe I just psyching myself into it, til just recently as in the past couple days. I don’t know it started out of no where but i guess i initiated the fight where basicly i was tellin him to change (over something honestly minor, just paying more attention to me, making me feel like i mean something to him), and how if he didnt he was just setting himself up to get hurt,i guess i get vindictive because general when i feel like i’m not gonna get it from him try to get back at him by having sex with others thinkin it may make him change whether or not we’re currently dating.

After the messages, not knowing that I made him want to try while he was at work because he felt that I wanted to end things thinking I was already done and was moving on, it got to where my ex (the guy i’m on and off with), was telling me how he wanted to end it all because was tired and frustrated with me pushing him away and then pulling him back in and also he just feels like he doesn’t know who I am anymore, and so this brought the BPD back to my attention, and i started looking up what its liking to be in relationships with BPDs and reading just horrifide me becaue it was talking about the phases of love that the BPDs go through how eventually they start to make a pattern, and after goin over it with him, we realized that thats exactly how our relationship has been. Even before all this he’d agreed with me that I needed to see someone at some point about why i do all the things i do to hurt him. I really now especially feel like going to see a therapist or a psychologist, but my parents just arn’t going to take me seriously on me possibly having a mental disorder. Also i have a horrible relationship with my parents with my parents, cause i feel emotionally its not healthy to be living with my parents, when i’m at home with them the worst in me comes out if my buttons are pressed which really doesnt even take anything. Just the tones in my parent’s voices whether or not they notice will through me into a rage. I do take a stress management group at school with the school’s social worker but i don’t know how much help talking to her about this BPD will do. I’ve already been talking to her about the issues I’ve been having with him, but I havn’t gone into that much detail.
And after 3-4 days of fighting, we finallly calmed down and worked things out, and now knowing that I don’t want things to end, he’s assured me that he’s willing to stick with me through all this.
and probably my biggest problem is the promiscuity

This may be a bit long, but please hear me out, I’m thinking about ending my life over this (it may seem stupid but ‘not knowing’ is driving me insane)

I’d like you guys to help me do the impossible and aid me in finding out what this problem is. It started on June 6th, 3 months ago. I went on a drinking binge and had 3 hard drinking sessions, one at night, one the next morning, then the next night I tried gin for the first time.

After drinking about half a bottle of gin, I got short of breath, so I stopped (keep in mind I’ve drank more alcohol than this, so likely a reaction w/ the gin). I wokeup the next day, still short of breath and with a cough sensation near my trachea, like a constant tickle.

Since that day I’ve been from doctor to doctor. I’ve had an EKG, lung workup, Chest X-Ray, blood tests, an barium swallow test, an endoscopy, a laryngoscopy, a naturopathic assessment, acupuncture, and homeopathic treatment,

Everything came up negative, and the alternative medicine is giving me ideas but they aren’t curing me.

Let me make it clear that, no, I do not have the new fallacious title of "GERD", that is a condition created by the pharmaceutical company that basically means "acid indigestion". I was thoroughly tested for it as I tried Aciphex, Zegerid, Protonix, Zantac, Pepcid AC, Prilosec, and tons of OTC and home remedies for "heartburn", but what I have is not heartburn, as it was unresponsive to all of these things. Also, the endoscopy showed no inflammation or irritation, and the laryngoscopy showed nothing as well.

The symptoms are an extremely intense throat tickle that is persistent throughout the day, regardless of what I eat, when I eat, or how I eat. It does not hurt to swallow at all. Often times the cough will subside and turn into a heat that goes around the neck, even to the back of the neck and shoulders that spreads to my arm at times.

At this point, my doctors are pinning it on psychological factors, however, I have no history of having psychological symptoms. This just happened overnight, and I’m open to the idea that I may be "manifesting my own symptoms", but I feel that it is physical.

I’ve became severely depressed, feel like my life is ruined, and get nostalgic for when I didn’t have to deal with this. I feel like a completely different person because my well-being has been torn away by this mysterious intense tickle/burning that never ceases and has no explanation whatsoever aside from "gin" possibly bringing it on.

I have tried the spiritual route, people telling me that I have to "let something out" or "accept it", that’s BS, I tried that and it didn’t work. I changed my diet, stopped drinking, etc. it’s still here.

The only 2 other things that my doctor(s) can think of is a thyroid problem or allergies. I’ve never had allergies to anything ever, and the mostlikely possible allergy would be the birds in my house that aren’t mine (staying temporarily, been here for 6 years).

I’d like any help I could possibly get, I am losing my mind. My doctor (who is a very good doctor and an expensive one) has basically told me she’s seen cancer patients with less mysterious/odd symptoms and that my problem was beyond her expertise and likely psychological.

It’s stopping me from functioning, I had to leave college for the day twice because I got so anxious/nostalgic and didn’t feel like myself. I even got scammed by a fake naturopath until I found a real one, that’s how desperate I am.

I ‘d really like some advice…thanks.
Hi Nataly, yes I’ve had a spirometer and flow meter test (hence, ‘lung workup’..I saw a pulmonologist).

As far as "acid reflux disease", the term "acid reflux" is a recently invented word. The term didn’t exist that long ago. I am aware that some people get real bad indigestion, but I’ve researched the hell out of that problem as well, it’s not a disease, it’s a condition. It can be reversed by changing your body from an acidic state to an alkaline state. I do not have this problem though.

Sorry if I offended you though, I know many people who suffer from indigestion and my mom by definition has "acid reflux". Please believe me when I say that it is not a "permanent disease". Google "Cureyourheartburn" if you want to find a way to reverse it. Anyway, I like helping people any time I can, looking for help myself though now hehe.

Hello I have worked in a lounge for past 6 years straining my voice… Unfortunalty I now have vocal problems, have been seeing the ENT, who fixed sinues, then thought it was GERD, now says my vocal cords are swollen and beaten and I need voice rest to heal them.
After getting a second job to save up money to go away and heal them, they have gotten worse, i have a very raspy voice and the beginings of nodules and some scar tissue…..
I am going to costa rica for 9 weeks where i will speak softly and take 10 days off with no talking.
I will take some vocal theapy lessons before I go to learn how to speak properly, is this damage reversable? I dont sing, but i just want a normal smooth speaking voice back im an actress.
Is 9 weeks enough time to reverse 6 years of damage ………..
is there other things i can do to assist in treatment, its horrible i sound like a granny

Below is all about my friend’s sister. They are desperate for anything that may help them. If you know of anything, PLEASE answer below

Tia was born full-term 10 years ago last month (March). She was slightly jaundiced but otherwise healthy. We took her home and returned when she was 3 days old due to her choking and slightly turning blue after she nursed and while she slept. Our oldest daughter had moderate to severe GERD so we were very familiar with the symptoms and assumed Tia had the same problem. The doctors agreed and put her on medication and an apnea monitor. At 2 weeks of age Tia was hospitalized for Jaundice. At 6 weeks she was hospitalized for RSV. Tia was again hospitalized for RSV when she was around 18 months old. She continued to cough, choke, gag and vomit massive amounts of mucous and slept in 15 minute increments. We lived in and out of emergency rooms, hospitals and doctors offices. She has even been rushed by ambulance from the doctor’s office to the hospital. Over the entire 10 year span Tia has had 2 sleep studies, she has been scoped 3 times, checking all of her airways, tonsils, adenoids, lungs, scarring, etc., she has had 2 MRI’s, 2 EEG’s, 2 EKG’s, 2 Cystic Fibrosis tests (she was borderline), countless x-rays, allergy tests, immune tests and so on. She has been on every nebulized drug available, she has been on numerous steroids and antibiotics and nothing works, no inhalers, no allergy meds, nothing! She spent 3 days with an oximeter attached to her which indicated she has intermittent hypoxia…but why. No one can find the cause of Tia’s breathing problems, her constant dips in oxygen, her lack of oxygen while sleeping. The sleep tests confirmed she is not getting enough oxygen but that there is no obstruction, she does not have Apnea. We have countless videos of her odd breathing while she is asleep….the doctors are alarmed by what they see and hear but again, cant figure out what is causing it. Once Tia clears and starts breathing again she is no longer blue and shows no sign whatsoever of being ill or having problems. (note: there have been times where Tia was seen by various specialists while she was sick and experiencing the breathing problems. They would always try things like Albuterol, Pulmicort, Symbacort….and the list goes on….and nothing would help. 2nd note: Tia has done much better over the past couple of years where she sleeps and has less frequent nights like last night *read below* We thought..hoped she might be outgrowing this problem but sadly she is not.)

Last night was an extremely chaotic stressful night. Tia was fine, took a bath, brushed her teeth and went to bed. She has been recuperating from what the doctors initially thought might be whooping cough but she was not congested and she was only coughing a few times per day. Shortly after she went to bed I could hear some really odd sounds coming from her room….sort of a grumbling. When I went in I found Tia blue in the face struggling to get air. She was coughing, choking and she was completely congested. I screamed for my husband and the two of us raced to try everything we have learned to do in the past to help her breathe. Last night was the worst in 10 years. If we had been asleep, in the shower or both downstairs where we didn’t hear her…..she would have been gone. Thankfully that is not the case, I had the phone in my hand to call 911 but we were able to help her clear her airways and then she was fine. I took her to the doctors today and after giving him the details he said that was very consisted with Cyanotic Episodes and that we should immediately call 911, don’t take any chances. The only reason we were hesitant to call is because we have done that so many times in the past and they end up not doing anything for her. They give her a breathing treatment and call it a day. This has broken us financially, this has broken us physically and has broken us mentally. We are exhausted. BUT, we have not lost our determination to figure out what this child needs! (*note: the doctor is not convinced it was whooping cough because her symptoms have resembled whooping cough all of her life. It isn’t possible that she had whooping cough 4-6 times per year….is it?) Tomorrow we go back to the Pulmonologist and in a week we go back to the Neurologist at the MIND clinic an hour away.

I have a few health problems that are chronic and very, very expensive. I have psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and I take Remicade and Methotrexate for it. If I didn’t, my body would be covered in red lesions (I’ve been covered up to 70% of my body) and I’d be walking with a cane, preparing to have hip replacement. I know I need this treatment. Remicade is EXTREMELY expensive. My doctor’s office used to let me make payments…but they’ve changed their policy and you have to pay upfront. I have insurance, but I have to pay a very large deductible. This, plus the daily meds I take for the condition, plus meds for high bp, depression, and GERD, cost a helluva lot of money.

I had bronchitis for three months starting in October of last year. Long story short, they discovered I have a slightly deviated septum and an old infection in my sinuses. I took meds, and now I’m supposed to have a second CT of the sinuses…and I know that they’re going to find that I’m no better. The next step could be surgery. I’m feeling EXTREMELY guilty about how much my problems literally cost my family. I quit smoking and started eating better…but it’s not helping any of my conditions get better. This sinus thing is not a life or death situation here, or a question of mobility like my arthritis is. I’m tempted to blow it off. Yes, I have a chronic sore throat. No, I really can’t sing anymore…but I’m not a professional, I just sing at church and civic theater. I get so worried when I think about how much all these medical things cost, and with the economy the way it is, I know we could go broke in no time. What would you do if you were me? How important is it to fix this?

I am 33 years old man i had suffering with throat pain and discomfort during swollowing from feb 12 on words Early monrning i awaken up i have pain in throat then i had tea i got relief from the pain.Day time i driving the vehicle A/c affect my throat is dry and start pain. some time i feel moving some objects my throat.two weaks before i consult with ENT specialit Dr diagnosed GERD and give the medications like Tab Rantac (Glotac)150 mg BD half an hour before food and adviced upto 3 months taken.now I takeing treatment but not relief please give the answer

In 2005, I applied for social security disability. I was fighting an overwhelming battle with depression, asthma, Gerd, and a couple other things. Now, when I went to see social security disability doctors, the medical doctor was concerned and said I need to seek further treatment. The psychologist said I was fighting depression. I was still turned down.
Now, I recently seen that psychologist ( the social security psychologist on my own dollar ) He diagnosed me with BiPolar Disorder AND PTSD. I’m considering applying for disability once again because I have worsened over the years. I talked to a social security disability attorney, and he said the conditions weren’t what you say, overwhelming, convincing evidence. Does my body have to literally shut down in order to recieve benefits ? I’ve seen SEVERAL people on here say they were approved for Bipolar alone. Can you give me detailed information about Bipolar and how severe the case has to be in order to receive benefits. What do you think of the same psychologist from social security seeing me as a patient and making that diagnosis, but yet I was still denied in 2005 ?

I am suffering from constipation, Gastrics for past 5 years. Last July I had undergone Endocopsy test and found I am suffering from GERD ( Gastro Esopahus Reflux Disorder ).
During Ultra Sonic test, doctors found Spleen enlargement than normal size. I had pain near spleen & Stomach areas when I take food.
Please suggest whether to take allpopathy or Ayurvedic medicines for complete cure. Suggest good doctors in Hyderabad for Treatment.

Suggest Home remedies also.
Regards