Yeah its been bad, really bad. I had to go to a hospital to get put under general anaesthesia and an endoscopy done (a camera into the stomach). At the time, I was afraid that cancer could be a possibility at worst. No specific reason to suspect it, just the severity of the problems. I have issues with eating now, not physically much, its rather, that I no longer can feel hunger, except when it gets to a truly ravening extent. I often go for days without eating because I just can't feel that I should eat. And trying to eat can become truly disgusting, like trying to stuff your mouth with paper and dry sawdust.
I didn't get told they'd found anything though although I've been meaning to at my next dr appt, go and check to follow up myself. This is a list of the meds I'm on JUST for my stomach:
Cimetidine (originally on ranitidine, both are histamine receptor antagonists of the gastric type receptor, cimetidine also helps, via some liver enzyme inhibition effects to prolong and intensify the action of the morphine and oxycodone I take for my joint pain and bursitis, since it blocks metabolic degradation of the drug)
Buscopan (hyoscine/scopolamine [same drug, two different names, hyoscine is the more modern name] as the butylbromide quaternary ammonium salt, so it cannot pass the blood-brain barrier to cause negative effects from the antimuscarinic properties it has, such as memory impairment/confusion].
Transdermal hyoscine/scopolamine patches, little round disks that stick to the skin and slowly release a centrally penetrant version, only in lower doses, the pills are 10mg each whilst the patches contain about 1.5mg total, delivered over a day or maybe a bit longer)
Ondansetron, serotonin 5HT3 receptor antagonist, extremely powerful antinauseant/antiemetic, usually reserved only for cancer patients, and for the ones who are taking really sickening chemo meds like platinum-based chemo, mustard gas derivatives (not joking, they use mustard 'gas' in chemo, specifically the nitrogen mustards, various medical derivatives, and one of the actual battlefield agents, IIRC HN1 type nitrogen mustard) and other really gut-busting chemo drugs. Its EXTREMELY expensive, £100 to the NHS for about 10 pills, maybe more, so was difficult to get a script for it, but the stomach problems have landed me in hospital before, twice, maybe three times now over the past year or year and a bit) and finally managed to badger my doctor, a sympathetic one, enough to get a prescription, for 2 pills anything up to 4x a day of ondansetron. It takes a little time to work, and if in an emergency, it needs liquidizing if its not possible to swallow, and using a measuring syringe, squirting where the sun never shines, or wouldn't, if it didn't shine outa my ass because I'm such an inherently awesome autie example of true and absolute perfection
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Cyclizine, a sedating older antihistamine thats also an extremely effective antiemetic. Fast acting, especially if delivered the unpleasant way, that works so quickly it can literally reverse mid-puke sometimes, and either allow me to swallow other meds, or at least stop me being stuck in the foetal position, sweating bullets, pale, shaky and in pain; vomiting bile and blood-streaked foamy crap.
And gaviscon. Lots, and lots, and lots of gaviscon. I've got something like 30 bottles or something crazy like that here in the house, the big dispensary-sized versions too. Cost about £8-something over the counter, but I get them free on rx. The big, amber glass bottles are useful too for storing all manner of chemical things when they are empty, washed clean, and then rinsed out with a little methanol or isopropyl alcohol to dry them and if needs be (such as for culture media) sterilize them.
Thats all the anti-sickness/stomach meds I can think of, unless you count movicol, a shit-softener, but thats different really, because I take pain meds those can easily cause constipation with chronic use, the movicol is just a bio-safe lubricant polymer based suspension to be added to water and swallowed that prevents that happening and stops me having to drop something that feels like giving birth to a rabid racoon with its fur braided with rusty razorblades and a tail lined with shark teeth:P
