When I had a meal today, I noticed that my stomach was aching afterwards. That's never happened before. I also read that not having good bacteria in your gut can take a toll on your overall health. I feel great fatigue in my head if I'm not moving or if I'm laying down, and it's connected to my gut. Has anyone else had this problem?
Personally when I have to go on antibiotics I always take it with food . Also , after the course of treatment is over I might take a pro-biotic supplement from online or health store to help balance things out a little bit as far as stomach is concerned.
I was specifically instructed to take my antibiotics with food. Did I do it wrong? Did I not eat enough for? Was I supposed to eat my food then take the antibiotics? I was never told about probiotics.
Sometimes I will eat yogurt with active yogurt cultures that has pro-biotic in it . Normally I wait to after my medications are completed though. I normally minimize the supplements during antibiotic treatment so that there is less chance of conflict between the medications and the supplements.
That's interesting. I just did my best to follow the instructions written on my antibiotics. I don't know for sure if I needed them or not but they did take away most of the symptoms I was having prior to taking them. Can my good bacteria come back naturally or is consuming probiotics mandatory?
Personally for me I find it comes back for me by trying to healthier diet especially after a long period of antibiotics. Like the yogurt example I mentioned.
Okay. Maybe I could try yogurt. Or fruits. Thank you for this! I hope this is the exact problem that I can give a solution and there's no other problems I have.
@BigGyro09 Yogurt , sauerkrauts and pickles are high pro-biotic foods .
@777Q That's very helpful!
Important side note : I make sure that I don’t take pro-biotics or eat high protein biotic foods at the same time of the antibiotics because they can cancel each other out. I personally do it at all together different times to get the full benefits of the medication and the healthy food.
I'm not taking antibiotics at the moment. So I just eat probiotic food and I'll be okay? How long will it take for the good bacteria to come back once I start eating the food?
Typo not protein that’s biotic
Everyone is very different. I can only speak about me personally. For me a few days , if that was the only issue at the time I was dealing with. Always verify with experts like your own doctor and pharmacist for expert guidance for your exact personal health and situation.
I understand. Sounds like my best bet is to speak to a doctor about it. I do appreciate your input on probiotics and where to look for some foods that have it
That’s very common because antibiotics kill all the bacteria, food and bad. Probiotics will help with that.
That's unfortunate.. but it perfectly explains why I never had stomach pain and fatigue on this level. I might call my urgent care to see if I need probiotics. I'm afraid to put any more medication like stuff in my body.
@BigGyro09 You can easily find over the counter probiotics. They’re not going to hurt you at all. You’re just adding the good bacteria back that the antibiotics all killed.
@Nica Okay. Is it normal that fatigue can come with this problem as well? I've gotten a lot of it lately with stomach aching.
@BigGyro09 Antibiotics really mess you up
@Nica Have you experienced those symptoms before?
@BigGyro09 Probably. I just haven’t had antibiotics for a while so I don’t remember that kinda small stuff.
@Nica I see. I didn't know antibiotics would have so much on an effect on me. It may have made my anxiety worse on some areas. I just hope to bounce back eventually. Thanks.
if you don’t want to get a probiotic supplement you can try to eat things like yogurt or miso, they have natural probiotics in them
Hi all, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here but i have thankfully been getting better with my Health OCD and haven’t felt the need to come on here, however I’ve fallen back into the trap and can’t even function without panicking and worrying at the minute! I was very stressed a few weeks ago over life scenarios when I started seeing a lot of signs and symptoms of colon cancer in young people on social media, I didn’t think too much of it. However of course a few days later I start having the symptoms! Sore stomachs, constipation etc. I have been so worried, I went to my doctor and got constipation medication for a week which I took but since stopping I have the same symptoms and more and I am worried so much everyday I’ve been hyper aware of my bowel movements! I have even been trying to force myself to go when I feel like I don’t really need to which in turn has caused haemorrhoids and some blood, which has made me even more anxious!! (Note: my partner actually thinks I’m going to the bathroom a normal amount and am not even really constipated anymore but I’m convinced I am) I feel like I’m going crazy and no one seems to think my worries are rational - can OCD/ anxiety impact your bowel movements and stomach? I’ve never really had this and I’m petrified of it, I hope someone else has had this scenario before and has came out the other side (edited)
Ugh. So I’ve been having some stomach issues for about two or three months now. I started seeing a naturopathic doctor who ran some tests and put me on a restrictive diet. The stool test she gave me revealed that I have high levels of a pathogen called Aeromonas caviae. I was kind of relieved to find this out since it finally gave me some answers to my issue. That was about 3 weeks ago. Last Friday I got my food sensitivity results back which revealed that I have some mild problem with gluten, dairy, egg whites, and other random foods. They were all low-level igG sensitivities though. Again, I was kind of relieved to receive the results at first because it helped me better understand what might be going on with my stomach. I was good for about a day. I even had one of the foods that I’m “mildly sensitive” to and had no issues. I remember eating with my husband after getting the results and telling him that I was happy and that these results were “tolerable.” That was until I visited my mom on Saturday night. I decided to tell my mom about my food sensitivity results and she just had a reaction that kind of set me off for some reason. I’m not even entirely sure why it set me off because her reaction wasn’t overly dramatic or anything. She was more just shocked and made the comment “well what can you eat then?!” I immediately got super anxious after this. I started thinking maybe I wasn’t taking the results seriously enough and that I should be more concerned. I started doing research about food allergies and it’s all been downhill since then. That night I could hardly sleep. I kept waking up every couple of hours because I was just super anxious. The next day I cooked and ate a breakfast meal that I had the day before and was perfectly fine with. Except this time I noticed that the back of my hand started burning and itching a bit. I put some creme on and took a nap and by the time I woke up I felt better. Then again later in the evening my husband and I meal prepped for the week and ate dinner. After eating I noticed the same thing was happening but on the back of my foot. It went away after a while but I started going down the rabbit hole of “what ifs.” I started wondering if maybe I was having a mild allergic reaction to the food I ate. The next morning I ate the same breakfast and brought my meal prepped lunch. I was fine all day until I started driving home and had the itching again. I got home and was super worried. My ears and throat got a little itchy. I was going to eat dinner but I was too afraid that I was having an allergic reaction to my breakfast or lunch. Yesterday I ate the same breakfast with no issues and brought my lunch. While I was eating my lunch I noticed that my mouth was burning a bit. I did have jalapeños and a salsa in my food but the burning felt different than usual. I started to get super hot and my face was burning and getting a little flushed. I spiraled for much of the rest of the work day thinking I had an allergic reaction/I have a food allergy that I’m unaware of. I ate a snack when I got home and again, it felt like my mouth was burning a bit. Now I cant stop focusing on how my mouth feels and if it’s burning or not. I ate the same breakfast this morning and it felt like it was burning a bit but I cant tell what’s real and what’s psychosomatic.
I was diagnosed with gallbladder sand(sludge) which is not gallbladder stones yet but it can become that, and normally it does not have any symptoms but for me, I feel pain on the right side of my stomach. And i read about it and everywhere on the internet it says its gallbledder issues. I took medicine for it for 10 days and today the treatment ended but i still feel that pain and I start to worry. It's not unbereable, but it bugs me, why the right side of my stomach hurts... It says it sbould feel like a stabbing pain but I cant describe how it feels. I'm worried that it got worse or nothing happened. And it makes me angry cause before i didnt noticed it, I only remember 1 night when i had this pain, but since the diagnosis I felt it everyday...People say its because I avoided the feeling or didnt noticed it which makes me scared. I have to go back in 2 weeks to see if the sand is gone but till then idk how to stop worrying and noticing this pain. Worrying makes it 10x more painful.
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