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Abdominal Pain, Feeling Of Fullness, Hiccupy Belch. Suggestion
My daughter is 16 years old and has been suffering from upper abdominal pain, sometimes right in the middle of her abdomen and sometimes under the ribcage. Her discomfort/pain ranges from a feeling of fullness which includes feeling like she has alot of trapped air or gas, to more of a sharp, stabbing pain. She tends to get this feeling more after she eats. She also has been having a tendency to emit a sound that is as best I can describe as a loud and forceful "hiccupy" belch. I have asked her about the appearance of her stools and she says they seem normal in consistency and color. She has been to her doctor and he put her on a generic prescription of Prevacid as he thinks it may be some sort of reflux condition and she has been taking it for about 3 weeks with no noticeable improvement. Her doctor also ordered an abdominal ultrasound and the results came back normal with the exception of a polyp on her gall bladder which the doctor's office said was nothing to worry about and would not be contributing to the symptoms she's experiencing anyway. I should mention also that although she has not had any vomiting, she often feels queasy (especially in the morning) and her appetiite has diminished somewhat. Our next step is to have her get an upper GI to determine what is going on. Could you please give me your professional input as to what you think her symptoms are pointing to?
Tue, 4 Jun 2013
Hello ronniekay,
When the complaints are in the abdomen, you think that the problem is in the organ level. Very often it need not be the case.
You have not mentioned in the long letter, since how long your daughter is having pain in the abdomen. This is an important missing link to connect her present symptoms to any possible cause.
After all possible investigations also, if you find that nothing is evident to produce this pain, then also such pains and belching are possible. Since she is a very young girl, a lot of sensitivities are possible both in the mental and physical levels.
In my practice a number of children have come with similar abdominal problems after being ridiculed publicly in the school by teachers, after failing in exams which they thought would win, after losing a close friend either by transfer or death and after innumerable emotional conflicts of similar nature. You have not given the details about her mental make up, her peculiarities in the mental level, her reactions to her life situations etc. which are essential to analyse her problems. In Psychology such abdominal complaints occur if she has a problem in the mental level that she cannot 'digest'. You have to probe whether she was abused by somebody immediately before the onset of her problems.
Therefore my advise is to take her to an expert Homoeopath who will take her case in detail, analyse her symptoms in the light of her mental and physical make up and find for her the genetic constitutional remedy which will not only remove her present symptoms but also will keep her free from such sufferings in similar circumstances in future.
Any amount of investigations need not always give any evidence for the pain.
Please do not give her any more chemical drugs to relieve the symptoms of pain, belching etc. without understanding the totality of her problems.
My best wishes for a rapid cure through the safe and simple medicines of Homoeopathy
Dr. C. J. Varghese
Homoeopath
drcjvarghese@gmail.com
When the complaints are in the abdomen, you think that the problem is in the organ level. Very often it need not be the case.
You have not mentioned in the long letter, since how long your daughter is having pain in the abdomen. This is an important missing link to connect her present symptoms to any possible cause.
After all possible investigations also, if you find that nothing is evident to produce this pain, then also such pains and belching are possible. Since she is a very young girl, a lot of sensitivities are possible both in the mental and physical levels.
In my practice a number of children have come with similar abdominal problems after being ridiculed publicly in the school by teachers, after failing in exams which they thought would win, after losing a close friend either by transfer or death and after innumerable emotional conflicts of similar nature. You have not given the details about her mental make up, her peculiarities in the mental level, her reactions to her life situations etc. which are essential to analyse her problems. In Psychology such abdominal complaints occur if she has a problem in the mental level that she cannot 'digest'. You have to probe whether she was abused by somebody immediately before the onset of her problems.
Therefore my advise is to take her to an expert Homoeopath who will take her case in detail, analyse her symptoms in the light of her mental and physical make up and find for her the genetic constitutional remedy which will not only remove her present symptoms but also will keep her free from such sufferings in similar circumstances in future.
Any amount of investigations need not always give any evidence for the pain.
Please do not give her any more chemical drugs to relieve the symptoms of pain, belching etc. without understanding the totality of her problems.
My best wishes for a rapid cure through the safe and simple medicines of Homoeopathy
Dr. C. J. Varghese
Homoeopath
drcjvarghese@gmail.com
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