Great news that you're feeling better eric-well done!!

I've had a terrible day today, don't know why, have not eaten anything 'bad' but im home now and i survived-just! My anxiety was mental though. I had wind all morning, i never usually get this in the mornings, i hope things aren't getting worse for me.

HW, if you do have a thyroid problem you wont be able to cure it without seeing a doctor and it sounds like this is what could be causing these problems for you. I know you're scared about talking to one and that the thought of blood tests is too much but just think of what you're going through now. One short sharp burst of terrible fear and anxiety caused by seeing a doctor compared to a years of these problems. Are you totally unable to go or would some encouragement help cause we're good at that here!xx

jen, yeh i knwo i need to see a doctor i jsut caqnt bring myself to do it, if i didnt know i had to have a blood test i could manage to go... bu seriouly my anxiety is so bad, i would pass out wating for the test

HW, you HAVE to go, you owe it to yourself. There is nothing more important in life than good health. The worst that will happen to you is that you will faint. Doctors are trained to deal with people who are needle phonic. You CAN do it!! They could even visit you at home to do it. Just explain to him that you're very scared, he'll know how to handle the situation. You might not even need a blood test but at least you'll have asked the questions that you need answers to and if you do have a thyroid problem it's very important that you get the correct treatment for it.

yeh i know i have to, i dont even have a doctor at the moment, im also scared theyll find something wrong and ill end up in hospital or soemthing and imagine what i would do stuck in hospital with my noises!
but i will try

HW,

Jen's right, as you know.. I had to get a blood test about a year ago when I went to go try and find help... and for as scared as I was.. it wasn't that bad. I avoid doctors at all costs too.... so I know how you feel. I hate that invasive feeling, with a passion. But. It isn't terrible, it doesn't even hurt to where I can remember what it felt like.

And, if it makes you feel better.. I have a big, "tough", football friend who has passed out twice when he even just SAW the needle. Then he took his dog to a vet and they had to take blood from her.. he passed out then too and it wasn't even him they were coming for. So, you aren't alone, it's a natural fear, all this medical. But, I guess you just have to weigh the options.

I don't know how old you are or what your relationships are about, but maybe you have a good close friend, or one of your parents could go with you and help you out. I know they aren't entirely supportive as many of us have found.. but maybe there's someone. I'd go with you if I could! Ha. I hate seeing people held back by this, I want to see someone do well. I don't want to be redundant, but maybe multiple positive opinions will help.

i am also suffering from sounds from my stomach since 1 year. I am a college student. this started last year when i went to college for my first semester and had alot of stress in the final exam days. due to this i passed all my courses with 60's.

there is this store that is called "le naturiste" and i went and got this thing called CURE SANTÉ 10ML with 30 AMP. Its a full body cleaner and its not strong, it doesn't make u sit in toilet all day. i used it for a month now and i am doing really good. i take it everyday in the morning and it help my stomach keep quite. and after every class i eat somthing.

i went to 4 doctors and the only thing they say is it is anxiety. so now i took apointment with a specialist which is after 9 months. lol

i want to try Oxy Powder but i dont know where to get it from. can anyone plz give me a trusted site that will ship to canada.

coheed...you're a female?

Funny...I never picked that up.

It seems that most of the people posting here in the recent months are female...(except myself...and eric?)

anyway, i've been ok lately. I've been eating more junk food than I should be eating. In-n-out especially. I notice that in-n-out gives me the popping noises. Also, I had one of those 'low-carb' burgers from carl's jr. the other day...the ones with no bread (the meat is wrapped with lettuce) and it went down pretty well. So I'm thinking those popping sounds are definitely digestive (related to gluten, possibly?)

I don't know if I mentioned this in an earlier post, but for those of you that are still in college like myself, it might be a good idea to go and meet with your school's center for students with disabilities. I first told them that I had IBS, and they said that that wasn't really a way they could let me into the program, but then I got an anxiety diagnosis from my doctor and that got me in. I do not like to think of myself as having a disability, but alas, this is the hand i've been dealt. anyway, they help me proctor my tests (I get to take them in a private room) and they also email me the class notes (in case I miss class). They've been very helpful and it does help relieve alot of the anxiety that all of us experience when we take tests in quiet rooms with other people.

Mastdesi,

I have tried taking Oxypowder and it REALLY cleans out your system. I wouldn't say that Oxypowder helped me with my noises, but I think it helped clean things out while taking supplements. You can buy OxyPowder from the Global Health Center, which located in Houston. I bought it at their location and I didn't have any problems. If you take Oxypowder I would suggest that you take Probiotics and some other supplements at the same time and continue to take them after the Oxypowder.

Coast Mmmmmmmm In n Out, those are the best burgers, mmmm. I miss the one by the UCLA campus. When I was back in LA about 2 weeks ago I had a #1 no cheese and my stomach made some noises, but not that bad. I had a burger here like 3 days ago and my stomach made more noises and the next morning I had some noises. I had a bowl movement and ate some oatmeal with water and my pills and I didn't make any noises until like 1:00 PM when I got hungry.

I really think that most of us have some type of bacteria in our colon or Candida or like a thyroid problem. My doctor said that my blood samples came out fine and my stool samples also came out fine.

I'm done taking my Cipro and Flagyl and I still have some stomach noises. These noises usually start up in the morning and they tend to kind of clear up with a bowl movement and taking some supplements. I'm going to call my doctor back on Monday and tell him those pills didn't work and to check for something else.

HW, like everyone is saying you NEED to go and see a doctor. It's better to see a doctor and get it off your chest and see what can be done. I don't know I would rather be embarrassed in front of a doctor than in front of my coworkers or classmates in school and dealing with this for the rest of your life. Your going to have to see the doctor now or later and if you wait you might make things worse and then there may not be a solution to your problem. I also hate needles and giving blood, but I did it so I can atleast try to cure this problem. Try looking online and do some research online for a good GI in your area. I think my GI is pretty good, but I will see another GI if I don't like what he is telling me.

Well good luck to everyone and I hope things get better for all of us.

I saw these two pieces of info on different sites and thought you guys might find them helpful.

"I definitely can sympathize. I had this about a year ago and it recently started up again. Whenever this happens to me, people assume I am hungry. However, this happens to me 24 hours a day- whether I eat or not. Anyway, a year ago, I was told to take Famotidine (spelling???). It really helped. I was told that these noises are either from gas or acid. I was also told that some people produce more acid than others. Anyway, this medicine is sold over the counter and it is used to reduce acid- it is also used to treat heartburn and ulcers. Hope it helps..."

And....

ahhhh another site where I can't copy the wording, but it's like from the IBS Treatment Center and a doctor talks about Bacterial Imbalance, Yeast and Parasites as being problems to Stomach Noises.

....funny that you mention that specific in-n-out. That's the in-n-out I go to (and that's also the school I go to).

Haha, Coast and Eric, I was wondering what the heck those places were that you mentioned. We don't have those here, I'm about as far South East as you can get. Haha and that made me laugh, Coast, yeah, I'm a chick.. BUT at the same time, that's an interesting thing as well. I wonder if gender affects much..

I'm still mostly struggling with keeping up a consistent diet. I hate having to go to the grocery store so often just to keep up a "fresh" food diet. And I'm getting so bored...

It's so strange to be talking to people not only on the other side of the country, but on the other side of the ocean too. I kind of like this, ha.

Eric, I know you do a lot of things as it is, have you tried any of the antacid treatments? We've been talking about them, but I don't think I've heard many testimonies yet.

Oh, and Coast, I'd love to get help from anxiety, but my school medical center scares me. I believe UCLA is much larger than my college, but we're so disorganized that the idea of attempting to FIND the place, actually talk to the right people, AND be taken seriously is semi daunting. And I don't have the drive to go find myself a doctor to check for anxiety... my parents don't support much of that avenue, so it would be difficult for me to ask for help or at the very least find my way on my own...

Hahaha Coast, small world, but not like UCLA is that small of a community. That's cool are you a poli sci major? I was a sociology major, which was a bad choice. If you want easy classes take Prover/Leap for Social Welfare, but her large classes like 100 A or B. I always sat in the back of those and placed my backpack in the seat next to me, haha or I sat next to a friend.

I use to live on Landfair in one of the frat houses and we use to drink beer all the time and I think this is what has increased my stomach noises. My stomach noises have become worse since I graduated, so I think it has to do with the change in lifestyle.

Yeah In N out is cool to eat at, so is buck fifty, but sometimes the food there tastes nasty. I also kinda like Gushi (SP?) that korean place right past buck fifty.

I always thought about going to Murphy to see if I could go to the disability center with my problem, but I never did. That's really cool that you were able to get that done, I bet that really helps.

Well I'm going to make another appointment with my GI, since Cipro and Flagyl didn't work. I'm also going to go to a drug store and see what I can get my hands on.

Best of luck to everyone and 8-Clap to Coast, haha, GO Bruins!!!

coheed, i didnt realise you were female either!
someone please tell me you are having results with something!
let myself go alittle on the weekend, as always, so back to the healthy diet today...

it has to be candida or other a) parasite/bacteria b) acid (either too much or too little) or c) thyroid/hormones....
its just has to be, but how can we eliminate them? also does anyone know if there is any sort of test for absorption?

i think i may have too much acid casued by thyroid problems with some degree of cadidia casued by poor diet and antibiotics

i want to do some more reasearch ansd get to the bottom of this

Haha my goodness, I'm not sure how to take it that you guys couldn't recognize that I was female. But I've been surprised by some of you in here as well. Anyway..

I had a terrible morning this class! My stomach was squeaking, hurting, popping, rumbling, EVERYTHING. Couldn't control it. I'm just glad it wasn't a test day.

Coast, if you don't mind me asking, how did you go about finding a doctor for your anxiety diagnosis?

HP, have you tried any of the antacids yet that people have mentioned?

Hi everyone, Jen here. For some reason i've been locked out for the past few days, it's been torture!!! Anyway, im back now-hope it never happens again. I was thinking what if i found THE cure and couldn't get on here to tell you alll!!!!!!!

Coheed, i knew you were a girl so no need to panic!! Sorry to hear you've had a bad day. I think there's more females here because men try to be macho and would rather bury their heads in the sand than try to get help.

HW, anymore thoughts on going to the doctor?

All that takeaway food your talking about sounds yum, i'd love to try some no-carb fast food, we don't have stuff like that over here!

Well, i've made a little progress thanks to eric. I posted on the website he suggested and have had some interesting responses. No miracle cure but it's helped me understand what could be going on a little better. I can't give a link but here's some clues: 'healingwell', 'crohn's disease section', 'embarrasing noises on page 3', im posting as 'pippy'. It's all crohn's related which im sure non of you have so don't freak out when you read the replies!! Anyway, im going to have a chat with my consultant.

ha, sorry coheed, i dont know why but i had a picture in my head of most people on here being male, even though im female.
no i havnt tried antiacids.. what do people recommed?
pix no, no more thoguhts on the doctor really, i dont actually have one at the moment becasue i moved house so i need to register before anything else. i also want to do some more research first. where abouts in the uk are you from?
is anyone else taking fibre? i cant get regular bms whatever i do, fibre just seems to give me lots of gas and make me need sudden bms. i think half my problem is i cant go to the toilet when i need to. sorry i know you wanted to know that!

Everyone should look at what Pix wrote... that forum had discovered that strictures in the small intestine (which supports my back/posture connection in which the intestines are being pinched and blocked) is causing the noises. A couple of people posted that they have had these noises for many years, until they were discovered to have stricture(s). In order to fix the strictures, you need to have a resection, in which the parts of the intestines are removed. For the people that have had resections, the noises have disappeared. Check out the forum that Pix wrote about.Thank you for posting Pix, and keep us updated.

i read that forum and im just nt sure, a lot of them got these strictures from having crohn's... and wed know if we had crohn's. and the sort of noises theyre talking about, which sound like food struggling to get through a blockage, i only get them in the evening after my meal, surely if we had blockages wed get really bad noises after eveything we ate

ive been doing some research into stomach acid and it turns out that the symtpoms for over and under production of stomach acid are almost identical, but over 90% of the time people have too little acid, too much acid is rare. i also discovered that stomach acid is responsible for fighting bacteria and yeast iin the digestive system so many people with low acid suffer from candida which would support the fact that many of us have candida symptoms and suspect we have it.
i found a site telling you how to take Betaine hydrochloride to test your acid levels so im trying to get hold of some Betaine hydrochloride supplemtnets (whcih are used to restore acid levels) to give it a go!

I quickly googled intestinal strictures, here is what I got.
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/i/intestinal _obstruction/book-diseases-5a.htm

There are 72 causes for this. You do not need to have Chrons in order to have some sort of stricture.