Please Help me with remedies relating my Gastro problems

Patient ID : chatt.indranil
Sex : Male
Age : 39 years
Nature of work : Clinical Psychologist
Habits : Smoking (2-3 Cigarettes / day)


1. Describe your main suffering?
Ans : Pain in the oesophagus and stomach soon after eating, burning pain in the larynx during eating.

2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
Ans : Back pain, shortness of breath, pain around the colon and small intestine and sometimes like a renal colic.

3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
Ans : Dyspepsia for almost 4 months. Can not be able to take fish, meat or egg, those seems very nauseating.

4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
Ans : Severe unbearable pain which sometime causes fainting.

5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
Ans : The present symptoms started almost 4 months ago. I have a previous history of Sliding Type Hiatus Hernia and GERD for the last 7-8 years. My last endoscopy in the month of May suggested Barrett’s Oesophagus. I also had kidney stones twice in the past.

6. Which time of the day you are worst?
Ans : After the consumption of food.

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
Ans : Eating.

8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
Ans : No.

9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
Ans : Cold weather.

10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
Ans : Normally agreeable and try to respect others opinions. But when angry (a very rare phenomena) then become very rude.

- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
Ans : Nothing special to mention.

- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
Ans : Sometimes, sometimes it is the time which heal my griefs.

- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
Ans : Very sensitive to strong smells as I have allergetic rhinitis and also dislike very loud noise.

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc?
Ans : No.

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
Ans : My bond with every member of my family is very strong although there are some minor difference of opinions sometimes but they are without much importance.

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
Ans : I do not fear any thing or any situation but I do see my dead relatives in my dream repeatedly.

12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
Ans : I was a strictly non-vegetarian and I did like meat very much but now I am forced to become a vegetarian.

13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Ans : Normal.

14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Ans : Less.

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?
Ans : Now-a-days its any kind of non-veg food.

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
Ans : Normal. My limbs and trunks sweat more.

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
Ans : Normally 3 times a day. The stool is very corrosive, liquid and with offensive smell.

18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
Ans : Normally I do sleep well. I do like to turn over to my right side during sleep.

19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
Ans : Yes, there is no problem with that.

20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
Ans : Sometimes I become completely aloof from the world around me.

21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
Ans : Pantoprazole 40 mg. twice a day before meals, but my pain is becoming worse in these 4 months and it almost stopped my outdoor activities now-a-days. It also started loose motion.
Alprazolam 1mg. at night before dinner. No side effects from this medicine.

22. What major diseases are running in your family?
Ans : My mother is a patient of HBP, Diabetes, Hyperthyroid and my father is a patient of LBP, Hyperthyroid and Lumber as well as Cervical Spondolysis. I am also suffering for Spondolysis (Lumber, Cervical and Sacral) for a long time ( 5-6 years).

23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
(For Females)
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc.

25. What major diseases have you had in your life and when. Please write them in a chronological manner.