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Default Nov 19, 2017 at 05:10 AM
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so I am an overeater as you know and I am worried.

I think my stomach may be leaking

what's happening is this:

I get really hungry

start to eat something

get really sick (like it wants to come out)

keep eating, because I know i'm hungry

be forced to stop because the sick feeling becomes too much

move to take the food away, gag a little, then return to being hungry

am I overreacting?

I keep thinking the sick feeling is my stomach trying to eject the food through a hole- I won't even put my hand their in case their is a gaping hole where the food is going.

don't really know what to do
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Default Nov 19, 2017 at 12:08 PM
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We can perforate our stomach, but the symptoms would be different than feeling sick or overly full.

Here's a link: https://www.healthline.com/health/ga...tion#overview1
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Default Nov 19, 2017 at 07:36 PM
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so I am an overeater as you know and I am worried.


I think my stomach may be leaking


what's happening is this:


I get really hungry


start to eat something


get really sick (like it wants to come out)


keep eating, because I know i'm hungry


be forced to stop because the sick feeling becomes too much


move to take the food away, gag a little, then return to being hungry


am I overreacting?


I keep thinking the sick feeling is my stomach trying to eject the food through a hole- I won't even put my hand their in case their is a gaping hole where the food is going.


don't really know what to do


It is doubtful that your stomach is ‘leaking’. Medically it doesn’t make sense. If you had a ‘leak’ in your gastric lining you wouldn’t be comfortably writing these posts.

do you have a diagnosed eating disorder? I’m guessing. Have you seen a gastroenterologist (‘stomach’ doctor)? If not, you need to.
Are you seeing a counselor about your ‘different’ symptoms? Again, if not, you need to get help. It’s out there.
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Default Nov 19, 2017 at 07:39 PM
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Did you have gastric bypass surgery?
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Default Nov 19, 2017 at 07:42 PM
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[QUOTE=LaraR4444;5911966]We can perforate our stomach, but the symptoms would be different than feeling sick or overly full.



No, we can’t willingly perforate our stomach unless you stabbed yourself w/ a sharp object. Perforation of the ‘gut’ is a medical and/or a surgical emergency, nothing like what’s she’s describing.
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Default Nov 19, 2017 at 10:40 PM
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Hi, SS. I had the same thing happen, pain in my guts/stomach as I ate, with nausea and the pain getting worse. I went to the doctor and it turned out that I had a pancreatic cyst. So, it's important to get this checked out. I also had these symptoms (but slightly milder) as a result of gall stones. I never did anything about it, and the pain has either eased up, or I've gotten very used to it and don't notice it anymore. I hope you'll feel better soon, but you need to get it checked out.
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It is doubtful that your stomach is ‘leaking’. Medically it doesn’t make sense. If you had a ‘leak’ in your gastric lining you wouldn’t be comfortably writing these posts.

do you have a diagnosed eating disorder? I’m guessing. Have you seen a gastroenterologist (‘stomach’ doctor)? If not, you need to.
Are you seeing a counselor about your ‘different’ symptoms? Again, if not, you need to get help. It’s out there.


I am,.

fat lot of good it's doing though
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fat lot of good it's doing though


seeing a councelor, I mean

I've not seen 1 of those surgeons you've mentioned
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We can perforate our stomach, but the symptoms would be different than feeling sick or overly full.

Here's a link: https://www.healthline.com/health/ga...tion#overview1


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Default Jul 06, 2018 at 06:33 AM
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You don't have to worry about your stomach problem. You can ask our students who take assignment on psychology and working in different medical profession. They are the one who secured top grades in their academics.
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Default Jul 08, 2018 at 04:23 PM
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Now, I did have an actual perforation of the stomach, well, a stomach ulcer I should say. It was not caused by ED type behaviors. I'd been a normal weight for some years (on the low side, but still normal). Most people apparently have symptoms when they have ulcers, but all I had was very minor heartburn I put down to stress (my mother-in-law passed away in late December 2017). On Valentine's Day, the ulcer perforated. Believe me, I knew quite quickly something was wrong. At first, I thought it was a cramp, the pain seemed to ease (this is common for the type of ulcer a had, a duodenal ulcer), and 30 minutes later I was clammy, hurting and wondering how in the world I was going to drive my daughter to school. I got nauseous, started gagging, lay down and had my daughter call my husband at work (he is a teacher, so he has to keep his cell phone off, he does have a desk phone, but in his district, all the teachers have extension numbers based off the same school phone number, which is a pain). I was thinking I had appendicitis as the pain seemed to come from my right side. My husband got home 15 minutes later (luckily, his school is close). By the time he tried to get me into the car, I passed out from the pain & the low blood pressure associated with the event. He called an ambulance. I think everyone expected me to have appendicitis or gall bladder troubles and the trauma surgeon seemed quite surprised when he told me the CT scan showed a perforated ulcer, probably duodenal, but he couldn't tell until he operated and there was a possibility he might have to cut out half my stomach. By then, I was in so much pain, I was like, do whatever you need to do. It was fortunately the best of the worst case sceranios, and the hole in the small intestine was repaired wit a patch of fat from somewhere in there.

But it was an agonizing operation. I'm talking a 4 inch scar from the belly button up, staples, catether, IV, tube up my nose. They didn't let me have anything to eat or drink except ice chips for 5 days and sips of water only to swallow medicine. I was in so much pain, I was hallucinating half the time. I didn't even realize how boring it was to be in the hospital until my 6th day there (was discharged around 6 PM that day). Recovery was slow and brutal.

The gastroenterologist the hospital consulted and who did the upper endoscopy roughly 6 weeks later told me I was extremely lucky. A lot of these perforated ulcers just bring on symptoms so fast, many people go into shock or develop sepsis or code & die. And the ulcer I had was caused by a combination of a bacterial infection (Hylobacter pylori and NSAID use. I was taking an NSAID for sinus headaches, but I also was prescribed a medication for fibromyalgia I had been taking for years that I didn't realize was an NSAID (well, maybe I briefly noted it the first time I took it and read the medication info sheet and then promptly forgot it). I had to take very strong broad band antibioltics and a proton pump inhibitor for awhile though I am now off all the ulcer-related meds.

So...my advice is, don't ignore possible ulcers, and if you think you have an issue, see a gastroenterologist. But if you perforate your stomach anywhere, you will know it almost instantly (in fact, it is so painful & memorable that most people can remember the exact moment the perforation happened). If you were perforating your stomach that much all the time, you'd be dead.

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