Anyone Know Good Stomach Settlers??

[scorpionldr]

OK guys, typically I wouldn't ask for health advice, but this is for my girlfriend....these days she's coming to see me on the weekends, and this one past she wasn't feeling particularly hott later on and got a stomach ache near the end of the day that continued on to today. Kinda ruined things for the both of us because she was the one that ended up somewhat ill and I was somewhat recovered and it was our one month anniversary. I was sick for the day, but I don't really think she could've caught anything from me, because by the time she was with me close, I had already sort of flushed things out of my system. I think I just had a basic 24hr bug

But she said basically every day she would have recurring stomach pains, and that she went to various doctors in the past but they never really had any good ideas that worked...she is disabled (stroke survivor), but I don't believe that has a whole lot of effect on standard health.....I thought strokes typically just physically disable you.....but anyways, does anyone have good ideas for what settles stomachs so I can give her some relief these days??

 

[shark]

Try warm tea or ginge ale/soda/whatever you call it locally.

 

[Camel26]

Ginger ale, honey (added to tea or, I find, just a dab eaten alone sometimes helps me)...


Is she in pain or nauseous? Or both?

 

[scorpionldr]

she said she seemed to be mostly in nauseous.....probably a little less pain....she didn't want to move much or have her stomach touched at all (if that means anything)......she's had a hard life up to 19, and supposedly since the stroke was 10 years ago there have been problems for her as far as her health and such...I want to help her take the pain away. she was taking pepto bismol tablets but those weren't helping much.

 

[Camel26]

This might sound insane...and I do not know the potential side effects of smoking post-stroke, but if you know any pot-heads...now might be the time to hit them up? I know it always helps my nausea...

 

[gilmourwaters]

an enema?? lol


seriously....the room temperature ginger ale works for me

 

[DarthGrinn]

Hope your girlfriend feels better soon...

 

[scorpionldr]

yea, it's just concerning tho that my gf said that for the better part of her life that daily she would have stomach problems and that doctors couldn't help......I hate to see if this develops into something nasty...to the best of my knowledge she's still sick

 

[Cbarton]

Has she had an EGD (endoscopy) done? Those symptoms are screaming GI obstruction, tumor, strictures, all sort of things. None are very good or pleasent

 

[PurrBast]

Mint settles the stomach well. Also raw ginger root and sometimes yogurt. No sprouted greenery.

 

[Alan19581]

I recently had similar problems. I had other effects with it tho'. I was suffering leg cramps at night, intense and sudden tiredness, constant peeing, chronic indigestion and acute and sudden nausea, which passed as quickly as it came. It was only when my eyesight started to fail dramatically the we noticed I had also lost a considerable amount of weight (I lost one and a half stone in less than 2 weeks). Then I went to see an optician .... who told me to see a doctor immediately!

My diagnosis ....

Diabetes!

Have her checked for that (if she hasn't been already).

It's easy to control with medication and diet ... and within 2 months of diagnosis I felt better than I had felt in years!

 

[scorpionldr]

well, i'm sure we're all experiencing health problems......at the age of 22, after being in college for three years i've went from chipper 190 pounds and bound for a future with no signs of failing to sluggish 295 pounds, bound for a heart attack, and disconcerned with having any future. oh, and the girlfriend's gone.
I really have to pull my face out of the dirt soon before I let myself get any worse.