Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Need Dx for friend...HELP!--Heather, need input, please!

Hi everybody - At Thanksgiving dinner today, one of my friends there has been having quite a problem with getting a very upset stomach after eating any type of food except Rice Chex and FF milk. Tonight, after she ate, she started getting stabbing pains in stomach (below waist) and then nausea and then cramps. She drinks a lot of FF milk (not lactose free) and has had a lot of tests done. Her colonoscopy showed some polyps...they did biopsy and found nothing irregular. She's had all types of tests and nothing found in her stomach like ulcers. They can't figure out what's wrong. She hasn't had a gall bladder test yet but she doesn't have pain in the gall bladder area.

I gave her Heather's book and told her to read it. I also told her to write down how much and what she eats and when she eats it and to drink lactose free milk. She's a stubborn one, she is, and I've tried to convince her that this was the best thing to do at this time to help her and the doc figure out what's going on.

Does anyone else have suggestions? This has been going on for months. Some days she doesn't eat anything because she doesn't want to get sick. She's lost about 30 lbs or more, which on one hand is good because she was overweight. She looks great now, but she can't keep much on her stomach. She says if she has just Rice Chex in the AM w/FF milk for breakfast and then again at her evening meal, she feels pretty good, but if she eats beef, she gets sick (wonder why???). Or if she eats anything besides the Rice Chex and milk, she gets sick. I asked her if she ate just rice and she said she tried that, and it makes her sick. Bread doesn't make her ill, but just about everything else does.

Oh, yeh, one more thing. This all started when she had a drug reaction and that resulted in some liver damage, which the doc said, was reversible. And, when she gets sick and throws up, she also gets diarrhea (how do you spell that??). She also has bouts of constipation.
INPUT, PLS! Thanx a million, y'all.

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Sharon
"Anything Chocolate"...that is all!

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