Morning Ladies
Looking for any advice re my symptoms. I started with palpitations about 4 days after my 1st Pfizer jab, couple of ECG's were fine and I am awaiting the results of a 24hr monitor. (12 week wait on results because of backlog!!) Jab was in April and because the palpitations happened after that I assumed it was a side effect. Doctor didn't think so. Anyway decided to have my 2nd jab (bit of a panic attack at the jab centre!) but palpitations are still here. But what I am also getting now, really badly, is burning pain at top of stomach, almost just below breasts, lots of stomach gurgling, wind, constant burping (huge from the gut burping). I get relief a wee bit from the palpitations when I burp, if that makes sense. Also my stomach gets really bloated until I feel it might burst. Palpitations are waking me at night, and they are worse when I am lying on my side. If I am standing, and lean over the kitchen worktop, for example, I feel them worse then too. I phoned the doctor a few weeks back and he arranged for a stool sample to be sent for testing for h. pylori, but I haven't heard back so assume it was ok. At the time he told me to take more of the Gaviscon Advance I was taking and he also prescribed me some omeprazole. I took the Gaviscon Advance four times a day for a week and I improved a bit, in fact that was when I wore the 24hr monitor and I hardly had any palps then (typical). I felt better so stopped the Gaviscon, but lately the pains and palpitations are really bad again. On Sunday I started the omeprazole, but really feel it's making me worse. The pain is more intense (kind of like a hot poker stabbing pain and really sore when I press top of stomach) as are the palpitations, although I don't seem to be burping as much. I feel like the gas inside me is more trapped now and cant get out. The past couple of days I have also felt an odd sensation down the front of my leg under the knee (HA in overdrive and this is probably not connected to the tablets at all!) Just wondering if anyone has suffered anything like this, found omeprazole helped or hindered, or has any advice at all. I don't even know if the pains, wind and palpitations are connected but feels like they could be. Thanks for reading such a long (winded) post.