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I want to share my story because I think it would be helpful for others, especially if you are diagnosed with gut problems.
I began experiencing gut problems almost 6 month's ago. The first doctor thought it may be ulcers and scheduled an endoscopy for me to check it out.
The night before my endoscopy I had severe food poisoning. The doctor who performed the endoscopy told me my stomach lining was badly inflamed, and that my stomach had too much acid in it.
I was prescribed prescription ant acids. I stopped drinking alcohol, coffee, and stopped eating spice to follow the doctor's orders.
My problems began to get worse and I also developed dermatographism. You can write your name on my skin with your nail and it will stay there for a long time in nice red raised type. This is also called skin writing.
I became depressed in the past 2 month's and literally stopped eating as it wrought too many problems. One of the doctors doubled up on the ant acids and the problem got even worse. I fainted on the bus due to undernourishment and exhaustion. I'm 6.2, I need to eat and I was not eating anything. I went for month's surviving on an apple and a banana, and a sporadic vegan inspired diet.
My girlfriend is on track to become a doctor and she solved my case when 7 doctors couldn't figure it out. The original diagnosis was wrong. I did not have an over active and acidic stomach, but in fact, an under-active stomach with a low acid count. **The symptoms for an overactive and under-active stomach are the same.**
Low acid count also leads to skin issues because there is not enough acid in the stomach to sanitize what you are eating and thus it shows up on your skin. It leads to a slew of other problems as well.
The cure? dosing with a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar after meals, and guess what, my skin issues are clearing up, and my stomach is calm and silent, and I am enjoying full meals again without wanting to kill myself.
6 month's of needless suffering due to a misdiagnosis, which created a chain reaction of poor decisions by the follow up doctors. I grilled every doctor about the possibility of a misdiagnosis, I asked them if I perhaps had too little acid, etc. They all said no and kept giving me ant acids. Long story short, they were making me sicker and could not figure it out.
Finally, the icing on the cake. The original doctor who looked me in the eye and said that I had "severe inflammation and acid" to my face, wrote on his report that I had "minimal acid". WTF.
I found this out last week at my last appointment when the 6th doctor requested a copy of his report. We both read it and wondered why he wrote "minimal" and told me "severe" to my face. He lied to me.
That night my gf connected all the dots. She gave me some apple cider vinegar and my stomach finally stfu, after month's of torment. I think my food poisoning interfered with the original doctors diagnosis causing him to believe that I had too much acid, but why he wrote "minimal" on his report I will never know. I took his diagnosis forward to every doctor and told them all that I had "severe acid" which contributed to the making of my own personal hell.
Word to the wise. Doctors are flawed and rely too much on traditional methods to consider alternative possibilities. If you are ever diagnosed with too much acid in your stomach, or are experiencing heart burn, do yourself a favor and do a simple acid test. Take a tablespoon of organic apple cider vinegar, if you feel a burning sensation right away, it's too much acid, if you feel nothing, it means you may have an under-active stomach. Don't take ant acids unless you are sure as they can ruin your life.
FML. ~Experience is the currency of the soul.
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