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After Eating Lower Stomach Hurts, Feels Bloated. Have Taken Probiotics And Digestive Enzymes. Suggest?
Question: Whenever I eat, no matter what I'm eating, my lower stomach area hurts. I have been very bloated for months, and despite lots of swimming, weight exercises, and walking, I can not lose the big "tire" around my waist, the constant gasey bloat or any weight. I have taken probiotics and digestive enzymes, and nothing helps.
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It seems you have been suffering from collitis and gastritis
Probiotics alone will not help, you might need to go for some ten days of antibiotics and three to four weeks of proton pump inhibitors
May be I would suggest go for a stool examination and that should give a clue to the treatment
Regarding the tyre around your belly, at your age the fat gets stubborn and mobilizing it takes quiet some efforts, so diet along with regular excercise will start showing results after six to eight weeks
Hope this helps
Do write back in case of concern
Thanks for writing in
It seems you have been suffering from collitis and gastritis
Probiotics alone will not help, you might need to go for some ten days of antibiotics and three to four weeks of proton pump inhibitors
May be I would suggest go for a stool examination and that should give a clue to the treatment
Regarding the tyre around your belly, at your age the fat gets stubborn and mobilizing it takes quiet some efforts, so diet along with regular excercise will start showing results after six to eight weeks
Hope this helps
Do write back in case of concern
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Thank you, Dr Naniksingh,
In searching "collitis", I see that it can be an autoimmune issue. Since my thyroid and parathyroid are "hypo" from autoimmune trouble in addition to MS, I wonder if this is yet another autoimmune reaction.
I will keep up with the exercise to make my pants fit again. I finally reached menopause last fall, at 62 1/2, so maybe that's what's different about my figure!
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In searching "collitis", I see that it can be an autoimmune issue. Since my thyroid and parathyroid are "hypo" from autoimmune trouble in addition to MS, I wonder if this is yet another autoimmune reaction.
I will keep up with the exercise to make my pants fit again. I finally reached menopause last fall, at 62 1/2, so maybe that's what's different about my figure!
XXXXXXX
Hi
Thanks for writing in again
All forms of collitis are not autoimmune, also one small suggestion, all that is available on net has to be clinically correlated before jumping to a diagnosis
Collitis is simple water borne infection also in its amoebic and infective variant, so need not worry
Yes hormonal changes do affect your body fat deposition
Hope this helps
Wishing you a healthy life ahead
Thanks for writing in again
All forms of collitis are not autoimmune, also one small suggestion, all that is available on net has to be clinically correlated before jumping to a diagnosis
Collitis is simple water borne infection also in its amoebic and infective variant, so need not worry
Yes hormonal changes do affect your body fat deposition
Hope this helps
Wishing you a healthy life ahead
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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