Hi, thank you for the responses. Yes, I have a root canal but I am not sure if there is mercury in it. It was done when I was about 14 or 15. All I know is remembering that it's one where the outside is porcelain and the inside has gold. I believe all my fillings were done with porcelain but I'll have to double check.

To the other poster, the endoscopy did indeed find a small 3-4 cm sliding hiatal hernia. But my symptoms were rather instant on the day they presented themselves and I had no abdominal injury or strain to cause it. I went to a chiropracter who said he could manipulate hiatal hernias. He couldn't feel it, and the gastroenterologist even said it was too small to be causing me any problems.

I thank you for the encouragement, I will try the ayrvedic idea and more diet changes, wish me luck...

i'd have to say 95% of that is due to digestive issues, bro.. clean up your diet.. eat more RAW ORGANIC VEGETABLES, practice FOOD COMBINING, eat smaller portions, ditch world of warcraft.. that game is nothing but a @$&*@ waist of time for losers, it rots your brain, you get NOTHING OUT OF IT.. unless your life goal is to be a level 10 druid.... if you spend that 10 hours a day on exercising and doing errands,socializing,working you'd be much better off.

acid reflux IS CURABLE.. clean up your diet man! no more processed nachos while sitting on yer a$$ playing warcraft.. eat CLEAN FOOD, eat lots of organic RAW cabbage.. it helps with digestive issues, avoid fruits as they can easily ferment in yer gut when eaten with other foods. Nothing processed.. NOTHING, make everything yourself.. watch your health change. Do not overeat, limit cooked foods & meats, no pork!, make sure you only put the BEST QUALITY FOOD into your system, maintaining health is e z, regaining health isn't. You need to focus on you goals.

everyone has probably thought of suicide when their life is in the shitter.. take some god damn action and turn your life around.. you want to call it quits because you feel your condition is "incurable".. well it isn't just follow the steps above and you'll notice real results

you can thank me later..... ;D

-MtL

I agree, it does sound like candida.

Have you looked into fasting? fasting is controversial, but at a point where you are contemplating suicide, you just might find it is something that can and will help you, like so many others.

Check out this info


http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.toc.htm


Also, please come to the Water Fasting support forum and post your symptoms there, you could even copy and paste this one. There are several very very good people there that would be thrilled to try and help you out!

I'm currently fighting for it now, the encouragement I've received here has helped a lot. At this point (today) the throat irritation is a bit less, but my stomach gurgles. It almost feels like gas/bubbles are being expelled and it's very audible. When the gurgling/bubbling starts it's not painful and I don't have any chest/stomach pain while it's happening.

I do notice that I am getting post-nasal drip and that the drip is very strange. I'll do that "back of throat sucking muscle motion" to clear the drip and sometimes orange, yes, orangish pieces of thick phlegm will come out. It's not usually a huge amount, but I notice if I break this phlegm up it smells pretty bad.

My saliva smells bad (to me at least) as well and so does the coating on my tongue. It has a bacteria/infectious smell, kind of like something isn't right.

Atm I'm doing the anti-fungal/anti-biotics, Candidase, and an asian herbal remedy called Long Dan Xie Gan Wan. It's a 9 herb compilation that's taken 3x a day at 5 beads at a time. My acupuncturist said it's to lessen the "damp heat" that she says my body is experiencing (it's what they call this problem in traditional chinese medicine I think).

My acupuncturist is very intuitive and knows her stuff. She was born in China and lived there for over 40 years. At first she was confident it was my "liver and spleen attacking my stomach with fire", which basically means my liver was acting up and was damaged enough to cause digestive trouble but not enough to show up on a medical x-ray. Sort of like a "functionally damaged liver".

She had me do diet changes as well and various herbs. But now with my symptoms, even she is sort of baffled at this point.

As it stands, the most annoying symptoms that are affecting me the most seems to be the throat irritation/tickle and the shortness of breath sensations as well as the lump/swallowing difficulty sensations. I can deal with the whole gas/gurgling, and fatigue symptoms and everything else. I just want to get these gone, but the all seem inter-related.

Hello Fledgling, and thank you for your thoughtful response.

Yes, I did eat at a restaurant on June 5th. It was a Japanese restaurant that I had been to before and I ordered Sushi with Teriaki beef & tempura. When we left the restaurant we went to the cafe around the corner and bought thai ice tea with the tapioca in it. The cafe/quick store that I go into is in an "asian center" with various other asian outlets. I've always gotten extra spicy beef jerkey from that place (they have mild, hot, spicy, and extra spicy) with no problem. The beef jerkey does look sketchy though, as they pull it out of plastic tubs and the store is somewhat "simple".

The beef jerkey is very strong, with orange/brown/red spices caking it. I ate that on the night that this happened. I ate this beef jerkey also 30 min before drinking the gin, but also long before that as well.

Other factors could be that I was on a bit of a binge. I had put a good dent in a bottle of brandy the night before and that morning I had 5 shots of brandy w/o breakfast on an empty stomach. This is not a routine thing for me, as I was upset over car trouble. I'm also 6'2 220 with a naturally high alcohol tolerance for some reason, so I wasn't venturing into the zone of "alcohol poisoning" or anything extreme, but I'd say it was overboard that night and morning, and next night.

With that being said, as far as my drinking history, I am not an alcoholic. I've always been drawn to drink due to the Irish drinking scene because I have a lot of Irish friends. When I turned 21 I sort of graduated from beer on holidays to experimenting with other drinks.

I experimented around a bit, a bottle of JD here, some Captain Morgans there (I could literally count the bottles, 1-2 of each probably in the span of 3-4 months, it wasn't an insane amount). Even while I experimented with hard liquor, I never had a reaction like this, which leads me to think it's not alcohol related.

I will say that I love wine, and was a habitual wine drinker from March up until June when this happened. I'd do cheap box wine or those $2-4 bottles, always red. I was drinking about every 3 days or so, it was random and varied. Sometimes I would do a 3 day binge, other times I'd only drink once a week or every 4 days. I have a glass beer stein that I would fill with wine and drain about 4-5 times. This was only going on for a few months, and I only give you my alcohol history so you know what's going on, even though I don't think it's what caused my problem, as I've stopped drinking completely (it's not fun when you're sick like this).

I have a very good recollection of what happened. I even remember the texture of the fork at the restaurant and the glow from the refrigerator as it hit the plastic bottle of lemon juice when I went into the kitchen to mix the drinks late at night.

The day (June 6th is when I drank the gin, 7th was when I got the symptoms): Woke up with a hangover from the brandy the night before. Felt fine aside from a hangover. Had someone give me a ride to college since my car was having trouble. Quickly shotgunned 5 shots of Presidente 40% alcohol brandy between 8:30 AM and 9:40 AM. Was driven to college. Experienced nothing irregular aside from being drunk with a hangover (stupid idea, I know).

Got out of college at 12:00 PM. Arrived at the restaurant at 12:18 PM. Ate the food approximately between 12:30 PM and 1:14 PM. 6 Sushi rolls (california rolls), teriaki and tempura with tempura sauce. It came with rice and some vegetables. Around 1:25 PM - 1:30 PM we went to the cafe and I bought the snacks (thai iced tea with tapioca balls and extra spicy beef jerky).

Left the center at around 1:45 PM and arrived home around 2:30 PM. Messed around on the computer for awhile and then that night is when it happened as follows. Started playing WoW around 10:00 PM and began mixing the drinks around 11:30 AM. Mixed the first drink with 3/4 lemon juice and ginger ale, 1/4 Seagram's extra dry gin (untampered bottle as far as I know since it was sealed) it was the first time I've ever had gin or tried it.

The first drink went down fine, it tasted like lemonade (I'm not one to mix drinks, this was an experiment and I almost didn't drink it as I felt I had been a bit too much on a roll). Naturally the drink kicked in and the next mixed drink contained a bit more gin. The next a bit more. I got fed up with the lemony taste and wanted to taste the gin so I poured half gin/half mix into the beer stein glass.

It was when I started to go through this drink that I began to feel a sensation like I needed to take a deep breath. It could be described as short of breath, but it was more of the need to "sigh". I even remember that I was playing my alt druid in WoW and was on a quest where I had to get lightforge ore from murlocs (I had 4 out of 8 liteforge ore bars and I even remember the exact area of the game I was at when it happened and was in cat form in the water near minethil harbor towards the shore). I was kind of freaked out by it and slowed down. I kept drinking, not knowing what was going on and finished the drink. I didn't mix anything else but instead just sipped a bit more out of a shot glass, pondering why I was feeling like this (I was a bit drunk).

Even while drunk, this puzzled me, as I had never experienced anything this odd in all my drinking history. I also didn't feel "happy drunk" at the time as the sensation severely affected me (this was after half a bottle of gin, the 750ml bottle). It was about 4 AM - 5 AM though so it's not like I shotgunned it down.

I went to bed thinking the sensation would be gone in the morning. I woke up to the continual need to take a deep breath that is still with me, along with a tickle in the throat. That's where my story starts, and the months after that to this day have been nothing but a nightmare, literally. I feel like life has played some cruel joke on me in a very sadistic and cynical way.

The burping/bloating and all of the other fun symptoms happened after the shortness of breath/tickling and kind of appeared and never went away, sort of like the tickling. It seems whenever I chalk on a new symptom, it sticks. I feel like an ailment magnet.

Lately I've been feeling like I'm losing my mind. My long-term goal has always been to get into law school, and I have the grades for it as well, but with this recent ailment, I have not attended college in 3 weeks now (that's how bad it has gotten).

I have less inhibitions due to the fact that I don't care about anything much anymore besides fixing this ailment. My gf who I dated long-distance for 6 years finally has come down here (as of Sept 12th) and I can't enjoy being with her as much as I would like to.

I am not the type to complain, whine, "be emo", or speak of my health. I'm the type of person you might find on a debate forum or a political vlogging site like YouTube. I've always been the cocky/confident type, never thinking twice. Now I'm always on edge and I feel like a ruin of my former self. I often feel like I should go have a funeral for the "me" that died in June. This thought pattern is partly what prompted the suicidal feelings. It's not psychological though, as I hope everyday at least one of the symptoms would let up, and every day they are there without fail or change.

I feel that if I can recover from this and somehow gain my life back, I'll have a grand story to tell. I really do hope that day comes, but I fear I can't take much more of this. It's sad to see my life crumbling around me before my eyes. I had a pretty disturbed past with Depression and problems as a kid, but I pulled myself out of that abyss. I was turning things around and finally going somewhere, then this happened.

It's almost as if the stage was set for me, and I ended up smashing it to pieces through recklessness, whether it was the gin or the food. Now I have to muck through all those splintered pieces, examining them and feeling nostalgic for how it would be like to see them all fall into place the way they should.

I believe there has to be a cause, something must be causing it, and I really hope it's curable, not "manageable". I don't want to live with this, I want to get rid of it for good.

I went off on a bit of a turn there, but I feel better now that I typed it.


- John