I guess that's why back in the day I used to use Tagamet and it worked =(

Thanks, I'll read up, I guess MSM will be good for him too...

He gets the pain above his belly button from left to right and further down left to right, all over that area. It's a dull aching pain, not burning, seems to come and go every few minutes. It started all of a sudden after a meal of Chicken Sausage a few days ago. What he describes sounds like a Food Poisoning reaction, I just wish I knew what exactly is the culprit.

His movements are almost too regular, several weeks ago the Doc told him he has GERD. He refused to take Meds but gets a little stubborn to change his eating habits but yet is open to trying Natural Remedies that I give him.

No Trauma lately except that he has a new boss at work that is changing the entire dept and his days are way too harried and stressed. He's pretty worried and stressed out daily now. I wish I could change that one :(

I don't have any way to post an Iris pic yet.

Hi lightstream,
It seems from your reply to complaints of stomach pain that you know something about the possible diagnosis or causes. Therefore I write to you to ask humbly for your help. I have included all the factors that could make a difference.
Last week I got a juicer and started juicing a beet a day along with carrot, apple, fennel, Celery and half a lemon and a small blood orange. This was my tasty cocktail for 6 days in a row.
About 5 days ago I began to get a cold. I had eaten some horrible deep-fried restaurant food and drank quite a bit of alcohol, both of which are out of my usual pattern. That night I was hit like a train with a cold, usual symptoms of coughing, thick head, achey, and I took the next day off work.
The following day I returned to work feeling delicate, and my coffee did not feel good in my stomach. Later I ate lunch: beef liver (unusual for me) sauteed in grapeseed oil with onions and tomato and potato. After eating this I took about 5 forkfuls of my girlfriend's very spicy trader Joe's curry. Within a couple of minutes my stomach felt like it had been kicked or perhaps rubbed with a cheesegrater on the inside, and I would rate it as a "9" on a scale of 1-10. I couldn't be touched, I didn't want to move, call a doctor, do anything, I just lay on the bathroom floor feeling horribly uncomfortable and wondering if I was going to die. My stomach retched a few times but I didn't go with that - I felt it would be too painful to throw up. Eventually it subsided down to a "3" after a few hours and was more or less tolerable around 2-3 that night. I ate a chicken and rice soup and an apple and my stomach flared up a little but it was manageable. The next day I ate sparsely, noting that food was the trigger. Water felt good. I had a full spaghetti meal the next night, thinking it had more or less passed. I even drank a small glass of wine and had a piece of chocolate. My stomach got to about a 2 in discomfort. The next morning I had a small coffee and a 1/4 of a burrito as I was on a work-site early in the day. I then ate about half a chocolate-covered donut and within minutes I was in agony again. I walked away from work, sat in my car, but was unbearably uncomfortable, walked half a block and sat in the shade on the sidewalk, laying back on the wet grass. I felt the same brutal pain, shakiness, helpless incapacitation.
I called my girlfriend who took me to urgent care. There the doctor examined my abdomen and chest and I was given a disgusting "G.I. Cocktail" for pain which numbed my throat but did not do much for the pain in my abdomen. I also got a blood panel, and an abdominal X-ray. They tested for Hepatitis, liver enzymes, blood Sugar levels and probably cancer cells. I requested a lipase (pancreas) panel as well which they added on. They did not take my temperature.
They called me at home and told me I seemed to have nothing but "acid reflux or gastro-intestinal acidity" and that I should take prilosec for two weeks. My liver enzymes were high due to being on INH (Ionazid) for 10 months, (a TB prevention medication I was given due to a positive skin test). They had been higher in my previous test, and though I felt a bit "liverish" if I ate too richly and drank, I never felt anything over a 2.5 and only about three times. There was nothing in my X-ray, I did not have hep-C, and I had a slightly elevated blood/glucose level, but nothing they were worried about.
My pain is not sharp but fuzzy. I feel sensitive all over my stomach - up high down to just above my navel and on both sides. When I press my bladder it feels sensitive too. The level-9 searing pain is like a big band across the tummy above the navel and below the sternum.
Any advice you have to share would be a great help to me. Whatever this is, I want to heal my body for the long-term, not just "make it go away".
Many many thanks for anything you can share.
Bless -
Duncan