
Took Medicine For Stomach Pain And Heartburn. Having Joint Pain, Getting Bloated. What Is Wrong?

Thank you for your query.
Possibly you are suffering from functional abdominal pain syndrome along with disorder of heightened intestinal sensitivity along with symptoms pertaining to other organs like muscles, joints, stress, fatigue, depressive symptoms also.
One of the rare possibilities is an inflammatory bowel disease which may have blood in stools, with diarrhea, joint pain and abdominal pain but if your stool examination is normal then this is very unlikely.
Colonoscopy may be suggested if you have abnormal stool examination, blood in stools, fever, weight loss etc.
Need to have high fiber diet, de-stress yourself, exercise regularly and consider some symptomatic medication and probiotics. Sometimes you may need a low dose of de-stressing medications to make you feel better earlier.
Also worthwhile getting your calcium levels, ESR (Erythrocyte sedimentation rate) tests done as a part of workup.
Hope this answers your query.
Wish you a speedy recovery.

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