About 5 months ago I began experiencing some regurgitation of food. It wasn't a significant ammount and it happened maybe once a day or less. I was under some stress at the time so I attributed it to that. Since that time it has gotten progressively worse to the point that anything I eat and almost everything I drink- starts to come back up. It isn't vomit, as it's not acidic, the food is simply undigested. Here is what happens: I eat/drink something and about 10-20 minutes after consumption I regurgitate a mouthful of whatever I just ate. So I spit that out and a couple minutes (if even that) later I get another mouthful. This can continue for over an hour depending on how much I've eaten. Sometimes I am able to supress it, and sometimes I have no place to spit it out and the only option is to reswallow (yes, very gross). When I do either of these it keeps trying to make its way up and if I hold it down I get stomach cramps. So usually I just let it up. I'm a fairly healthy person, 20y/o female, 5'4, 125lbs- right where I should be. I'm not under stress anymore (other than this) and so far the doctors can't find anything wrong. My physician thought it was GERD and had me take Prilosec and Pepcid, neither worked. I also was prescribed Reglan- also did not work. She referred me to a GI specialist. I have done the barium swallow x-ray with normal results. And a couple days ago had an upper endoscopy- everything normal, waiting for the ruslts of the biopsy. I've also had blood work done for Peptic Ulcers- negative. I feel like my GI doctor doesn't realize how disruptive this is to my everyday life. I've recently been losing weight because I simply chose not to eat because I know what will happen when I do. And when I do eat, I don't chose food based on what I would like to eat but on what will be best coming back up. This is really affecting my quality of life and I would kill to be able to eat a nice full meal and not worry about it coming back up. Please, if you can help me out all I would soooo greatly appreciate it, I truely am desperate.
