Negative then positive
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 4:28 am
Hello there, im an 18 year-old male, kind of athletic, i had h pylori twice back in 2017 and 2018.
On May 24th i started to feel the symptoms such as nausea, belly pain, loss of appetite, not wanting to eat at all (although i used to eat okay and a lot of junk food), dizzy, anxiety and thought it was h pylori as well.
I went to the lab and made a stool test which came back negative and i went to my doctor, he asked me couple of questions and prescribed omiz plus for 28 days (twice a day).
I had final exams and i was studying and not thinking much about eating beside the appetite loss and i used to eat one sandwich all day for like weeks and my weight got down about 4-5 kgs, and i have to mention that im skinny and a hard weight gainer.
after finishing the omiz i felt a very slight improvement but had almost the same symptoms, i finished my exams and i went to the doctor again and he told me to redo the h pylori stool test and it came back positive and that was July 18th.
I started to take the triple therapy which was:
Muxava 400gm once a day
Flagyl 500Gm twice a day
And another medicine i used to take half an hour before eating (sorry i dont remember the name)
anyway, i finished the treatment August 2nd, and thought i needed time to get back to normal.
Now 10 days later most of symptoms have gone and feeling improvement but still not feeling 100%, the most symptoms im feeling now are appetite loss, weight loss due to not eating very well (sometimes 1 meal a day), and dizziness when i stand up and sometimes nauseous in the morning which goes after a while and a bit of sore throat which i believe due to drinking cold water which was always bad choice for me (i dont know if this is related). and i will do the check test for h pyolri after a couple of days.
My questions are:
1. Is it okay that it has been 2 months and a half and im still feeling some of the symptoms?
2. does anxiety actually make them worse ?
3. When the test first came negative then positive i was really worried and dont know what to believe, was it a false positive or a false negative?
4. Is it okay to have appetite loss for this much? it is improving slightly but still feeling it
5. do these symptoms show that the h pyolri is not fully eradicated ?
6. what might it be if not h pylori?
7. does it take time to feel better especially if i didnt treat it good at first?
Please help me out, i really cant stop thinking about what it might be and so worried about my health condition, my anxiety is driving me crazy
Thank you in advance.
On May 24th i started to feel the symptoms such as nausea, belly pain, loss of appetite, not wanting to eat at all (although i used to eat okay and a lot of junk food), dizzy, anxiety and thought it was h pylori as well.
I went to the lab and made a stool test which came back negative and i went to my doctor, he asked me couple of questions and prescribed omiz plus for 28 days (twice a day).
I had final exams and i was studying and not thinking much about eating beside the appetite loss and i used to eat one sandwich all day for like weeks and my weight got down about 4-5 kgs, and i have to mention that im skinny and a hard weight gainer.
after finishing the omiz i felt a very slight improvement but had almost the same symptoms, i finished my exams and i went to the doctor again and he told me to redo the h pylori stool test and it came back positive and that was July 18th.
I started to take the triple therapy which was:
Muxava 400gm once a day
Flagyl 500Gm twice a day
And another medicine i used to take half an hour before eating (sorry i dont remember the name)
anyway, i finished the treatment August 2nd, and thought i needed time to get back to normal.
Now 10 days later most of symptoms have gone and feeling improvement but still not feeling 100%, the most symptoms im feeling now are appetite loss, weight loss due to not eating very well (sometimes 1 meal a day), and dizziness when i stand up and sometimes nauseous in the morning which goes after a while and a bit of sore throat which i believe due to drinking cold water which was always bad choice for me (i dont know if this is related). and i will do the check test for h pyolri after a couple of days.
My questions are:
1. Is it okay that it has been 2 months and a half and im still feeling some of the symptoms?
2. does anxiety actually make them worse ?
3. When the test first came negative then positive i was really worried and dont know what to believe, was it a false positive or a false negative?
4. Is it okay to have appetite loss for this much? it is improving slightly but still feeling it
5. do these symptoms show that the h pyolri is not fully eradicated ?
6. what might it be if not h pylori?
7. does it take time to feel better especially if i didnt treat it good at first?
Please help me out, i really cant stop thinking about what it might be and so worried about my health condition, my anxiety is driving me crazy
Thank you in advance.