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help me

i need help because i find it very hard to breathe and i can't cope with normal life unless i'm working constantly while i am awake. this leaves me drained every day as i'm stressed out from 8am to midnight. i am unable to relax and at the moment it feels like i'm being stabbed continuously in the stomach. i hate this feeling. i want it to stop but it doesn't unless i drink a lot of alcohol which i don't like doing because it hurts my stomach and i feel worse afterwards. so i don't know what to do and i just want to feel calm like i used to without having to feel this stabbing pain and difficulty in breathing. i will find out a way to get rid it of it. i just don't know what that will be at the moment.

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Feb 21, 2010
 I am sorry
by: Siān@IBS-Life

I sympathize because I experience very similar symptoms sometimes (unable to breathe, stabbing pains)

Whereabouts are the pains? They could be gas - it can be *that* painful) or indigestion, and drinking relaxes you and also shifts it, but is likely to make your stomach more acid. You may also be hyperventilating (breathing too much, literally) and feeling you cannot get enough air into your lungs. I have had that often. I was diagnosed with Hiatus Hernia and given tablets to control the acid my stomach produces, which helped with the pain (as he said my esophagus, the pipe which leads into the stomach was probably raw from acid reflux) It would be worth seeing the doctor if you have not, and if you have, looking at things you eat which may be causing these stabbing pains.
Feb 21, 2010
 Give yourself some "me" time
by: Anonymous

Hi
Sounds like youre having a hard time of things, but you've got to learn to calm down, or your health & symptoms will just get worse.

Self-discipline will be the thing to set you free here. Give yourself at least 20 minutes of switch-off time during the day (not bed time) where you can sit quiet and listen to some kind of relaxaing audio recording - maybe a guided meditation, anything that has a calming influence.

If you don't think you can get the time, then MAKE the time - be strict with yourself and with others around you to leave you alone during your "me" time. This is really important.

In the meanwhile, get yourself on an elimination diet to try to figure out what is triggering the symptoms.

good luck..

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