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GI Tract Problems Endangering the best job I had

DukeDestroyer

I’m getting sick of this. This is the fourth year that this happened. This the first time I actually had episodes of vomiting. Of the three other years this happened I never vomited.

The first time happened when I was 26. Intense waves of nausea would just hit me, I did see my doctor. He did prescribed me Pepcid, even though I still had issues with nausea. I didn’t see my doctor again, I took a lot of Pepto-Bismol. The second time this happened was when I was 29, I just decided to power through it. But it’s was a little different this time around. One week I would have nausea, while the week after I would feel fine. It would alternate like this the several months I’d have it. The third time this happened when I was 34. That time I decided to just go through it without seeing my doctor. I could barely eat anything, I would drink a lot of green shakes everyday. I would have to avoid protein drinks because it would just make the nausea worse. Each time this persistent nausea would happen, it would last for at least six months. The third time lasted from February to late November.

This is the fourth time it started shortly before I turned 39. I don’t know if it’s because of age or what, but it’s getting harder to handle mentally. I mean the anxiety caused by the nausea is through the roof. I’m calling in sick to my work frequently because the nausea is just that bad. I would sometimes vomit as well. I think I called in over fifteen times in the last three months. This is the worst three month period as of right now. I never had whatever this is so bad.

This is endangering the best job I ever had. I have a Doctors appointment next Friday. I’m wondering what kind of work restrictions I can ask my doctor to put in place for me to be able to keep this job.

  • This seems familiar and it is highly likely to be food related. Somewhere there's a trend of what you're eating and how it's going.
    It could be any sort of thing related to diet, and there's a load of knowledge out there, unfortunately there's also a lot of rubbish.

    I can only share what worked for me:
    Golden rule 1 - you are what you eat - you can't be anything else!

    I went to www.dietdoctor.com to understand high fat/low carb diet after advice from my GP. I just looked at their visual guides and free recipes, I have not subscribed. That helped me with weight and mood swings massively and also my wife. I'd quantify my mood swings to 95% near normal after doing that, and anxiety and other problems were massively controlled.

    After a "sod it for today" pasta episode of fatigue for four days - committed myself to Gluten Free for 6 months. After two weeks had what can only be described as a rush of full neurological clarity.  I'm not diagnosed celiac, or any other  medical grade gluten intolerances - but it has made a million percent difference in my brain and physical functioning.

    I have not had any depression or mental health related problems since going gluten free, despite a period of extremely high life stresses and work stresses these past 8 months - I've coped with them.

    It has also made a zillion percent difference to my gut health, and it is superb now.

    On the downside I'd say with increased brain activity I also went through a period of increased sensitivity to my environmental aspergers triggers - and became more overwhelmed. This was however pre-diagnosis, and now post-diagnosis and a better understanding of my triggers I'm significantly more in tune with managing my exposure to my kryptonites and so have less problems and also have more brain capacity online to see them early so manage them.

    Not having the gluten there, I've also lost weight down further to exactly my target weight - similar to when I was 25 - which has been amazing.

    Additionally now the gluten intollerance and inflammation has gone - I've now been able to understand how other foods are effecting me when I eat them. I've found raw red onion terrible, and the sub-family of garlic, onions, spring onions are all having an effect on me, and more so when raw. Also some foods like spinach - just suddenly smash through me.
    So by removing what was a massive main problem I'm now finding out individual triggers in the background for my gut health. 
    These are just my problems - but it's slowly making sense.
    I know paprika also probably has an effect as well as cajun spices - but things like baked beans have paprika in and it's just too inconvenient to test avoiding it just yet.

    So you will find your foods, but going on experience and other peoples similar experiences - try going LCHF, and then after a while the extra step of Gluten Free, and then see whats going on after that.
    Give yourself time too - it takes about two months to physically adjust to LCHF, let alone sort out your food ordering logisitics and change, but the info is on that website.

    Very good luck with it, once you solve what it is - you'll be absolutely fine I'm sure, if not better than fine !
    Hopefully your episodes are caused by a certain sandwich filling or snack bar that may have changed ingredients without making it obvious - and hopefully you can find your kryptonite.

  • I was once told this nugget of wisdom. There are 2 things in life we cannot get back: Our health and Time.

    Pay attention to your biology as it's responding to something:

    DukeDestroyer said:
    I would have to avoid protein drinks because it would just make the nausea worse.

    Down to the detail, What is in these? It's possible you have an allergy and it's luckily only affecting you with nausea.