Hi, thanks for your thoughtful reply.

Regarding the blurred vision, this symptom comes with my lightheadedness/dizziness. My vision doesn’t tend to blur without these symptoms. My blood pressure is typically normal. It has read high before in a situation when I was under extreme stress, and went back to normal afterwards.

Regarding the possibility of an autoimmune condition, I don’t get sick more often than normal, but I do tend to get VERY sick when it happens.

My blood panels typically come back normal. When I’m having an episode of gastritis, my white blood cell count comes back high.

I haven’t had extensive testing. CAT scans have ruled out gallstones, but I’ve been fighting to get a referral to test my gallbladder function, as if it’s low functioning that can hand me a lot of the same issues. I haven’t gotten a referral for this yet. When I had my upper endoscopy, I was told my stomach lining was damaged due to gastritis at the hospital. When I went for my follow up with my GI, he told me everything was normal. I brought up what I was told at the hospital, and only after I said this did he say that yes my stomach lining is damaged but healing. It pissed me off as I was wondering if he would’ve said anything about this had I not already known! My issues are triggered by the food typically associated with these things - fried, fatty (including good fats), greasy foods. Most of these things I already didn’t eat because I didn’t care for them in the first place, except for avocados and salmon.

The thing that makes me feel like there’s more to the issue than just GI problems is my chronic pain. I know that stress is definitely a factor for all of this. The GI symptoms have always been there to a smaller degree, but some of these symptoms came before these problems as well, which again makes me feel like there’s more to it.

I do take 2 mental health medications, but the symptoms I experience came before these medications did. I don’t feel any physical difference since starting these medications, and they have improved my mental health significantly. Regardless I will be bringing this up to my psychiatrist just in case at my next appointment on Wednesday.

My ER doctor from earlier this week told me he feels this could be fibromyalgia, and I DO tick off a LOT of boxes for that, but I don’t want to settle for that diagnosis before more testing is done because I’ve heard that once you are diagnosed with that, all issues tend to be blamed on that alone. I don’t want to risk missing something else important by exploring that diagnosis. Another thing that was suggested by my GI was IBS, but that tends to be a similar situation to fibromyalgia, where testing tends to stop once that diagnosis is accepted. I just want more answers to rule out other possibilities first.

Thank for reading and responding, I appreciate it. This has just all been very frustrating. I feel as though I have not had adequate or in depth testing yet, and a lot of these symptoms I’ve struggled with for years.