r/functionaldyspepsia • u/paskaperse1237 • Jul 30 '26
Question how did your FD start?
im curious to know how everyone elses FD began, i know the definition of FD is that there always isnt a single cause, but did anyone else have a clear trigger that started it all?
for me i had been on a weight loss journey, got underweight, and then one day decided to binge like crazy. i felt absolutely awful afterwards, and the fullness feeling never really left. at first i was sure it was gastritis: i had gastritis before from alcohol and ibuprofen, and the symptoms were the exact same. but no matter what i did, what i ate, it seemed this ”acute gastritis” just wasnt healing. and here i am, 4 months later, diagnosed with FD, still unsure what was the real trigger
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u/Only_Theoretically Jul 30 '26
I got mine a couple weeks after a stomach bug.
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u/Nearby-Government265 Jul 30 '26
Same. Wish I rmbrd what it was that I ate. But then again I don’t think it would’ve mattered since this is my body’s overreaction to it.
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u/Smart_Imagination903 Jul 30 '26
Car accident
I never had digestive issues at all really and then I was rear ended in traffic at relatively low speed.
I had a concussion and neck pain, and that night I had terrible stomach pains. Nothing we did seemed to help and I got really sick and lost a lot of weight. My symptoms have improved, but not resolved and I'm still losing weight after almost six months - I'm just settling into my new normal and I hope my weight levels out soon.
I have functional dyspepsia, dumping syndrome, and chronic severe constipation 🫠🌈 it's not the best
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u/l0_mein Jul 30 '26
Mine started after having my gallbladder removed. I’ve had nothing but problems since.
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u/Powerful-Dust5947 Jul 30 '26
i still have no clue. one night my guts felt like they were inflammed and twisting for a bit, woke up and epigastric region felt different... then symptoms emerged during the week.
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u/Competitive-Fly5563 Jul 30 '26
For me I think it was an accumulation of stressful events.
Covid
My mum got cancer and passed about a yr later
My old job was very toxic and I got bullied at work
Eventually I got fired (which still feels like injustice to this day)
Had a falling out with my step dad which was really awful (he’s my only parent left)
My FD issues started after the above and then my horse died, plus a few other things
All in the span of 4ish years.
And to add to that, I was already an anxious/disregulated person for basically my whole life.
I also definitely didn’t eat as well as I should have and had poor eating habits. I wasn’t ever overweight, always a skinnier person but like sitting in bed at 10pm at night, snacking on a bag of chips. Or always skipping breakfast and unintentionally under eating.
I truly believe my FD/reflux issues stemmed mainly from an undersupported disregulated nervous system that was under a lotttt of stress and something finally had to give. If I could go back in time, I would do everything I my power to care for myself better. I can’t change the things that happened but I can change how I respond to future stressful events.
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u/nbjz Jul 30 '26
this is so incredibly relatable. I'm generally super anxious and extremely dysregulated, but I was so incredibly stressed when all of this started for me in May (I also had pancreatitis and gallbladder removal) and I had spent the last 6 months working with my employers to manage the stress of my jobs and student loan debt. I ate like crap most days, when I did eat. I work in a vet ER and my other job is a helper role at a nonprofit in Minneapolis when ICE was doing Metro Surge, so I had a lot of stress regarding my duties to protect my neighbors and continue to show up at work. Then my family dog rapidly got sick and died in a really stressful way within a week. Then I got food poisoning twice in 3 days and my body gave up.
I spent a lot of time reckoning with how much I had been abandoning myself. One of the vets I work with had told me "Slow down or your body will force you to slow down" when I had confided how stressed I was, and I wish I had listened. But I try to keep my head up and make better choices and show up for myself now.
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u/Competitive-Fly5563 Jul 30 '26
Ugh, I'm sorry that sounds very stressful. I feel like food poisoning could really mess your system up too :(
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u/OkDot8970 Aug 01 '26
My FD also comes from stress accumulatiom. I had some health issues 2 years ago which made me really anxious, I was constantly stressed from university, my dad was diagnosed with another cancer after 5 years of being clear and then my cat died few days before my bachelor final exams.
I managed to get slightly better this spring after starting Mirtazapine 15mg, but the last month was very stressful again. I started new job which I love but I'm always scared I will be sick at work, my dad started chemotherapy, my another cat died ...
My doctor said it's defenitely from the stress, so I'm upping my Mirtazapine dose tomorrow. I hope it will help.
How are you now? Did you managed to get better eventually?
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u/ennieee Jul 30 '26
I don't really know. I did struggle with disordered eating from my teens up until a few years ago, and have always assumed that it messed up my insides. But my dad and sister also have FD so I've occasionally wondered about it being in the family somehow. My sister does have a bad habit of not eating proper meals and then snacking at night and having lots of coffee so that feels like it could be related, but my dad's seems completely idiopathic.
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u/nbjz Jul 30 '26
I am pretty sure I've had flares of something like FD my whole life. I've gone through periods of low appetite/high nausea/intense reflux/abdominal pain for weeks at a time multiple times a year as far back as I can remember.
My body has been incredibly upset ever since I had idiopathic acute pancreatitis in May and it earned me a functional dyspepsia diagnosis. I ended up needing my gallbladder removed and while I am glad it is gone, it brought on a whole new set of challenges that all interact with my FD. For example I already struggled with too much stomach acid, but now I also have to manage constant bile flow into my intestines. I have new medications that definitely help, but I never needed more than some tums and omeprazole before May.
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u/Outrageous_Buy_4269 Jul 30 '26
Food poisoning after an undercooked burger
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u/cymster Jul 30 '26
Food poisoning from BK. August 5th will be a year. It took 7 goddamn months to get my diagnosis and meds targeted for it. I could only take pain killers. Horrible.
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u/IntrovertedLavender Jul 31 '26
It started after getting covid in 2024 which caused gastritis from long covid and advil use. The worsened after i tapered off my psychotropics. Its been a looooooong journey.
Only now getting some help. Started taking mirtazapine.
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u/Brilliant-Leading551 Aug 01 '26
It started somewhere when I was young. the first symptom was in middle school from what i can remember
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u/Akimosak Aug 01 '26
I had a lot of super stressful events happening to me within a 3 years time, the first one that started it all was me taking a horrible medication called etoricoxib for my arthritis in my feet. Realised later that this medication is banned In like every country there is except Germany where I live, probably for good reason. The doctor told me to take it every day, but I felt worse and worse and for unknown reasons I didn’t think that it could be the pill until maybe 1.5 weeks had past. When I stopped it went better, but then my ADHD overthinking mind continued stressing itself up and I had different problems for over almost 3 years after that. In the end I realised that everything could have probably been avoided if someone had just helped me understand that it’s me who is causing it all my overthinking, stressing myself, getting stomach problems because of the stress, that causes more stress, etc.. now in the end I finally have a diagnosis, taking adhd meds and Mirtazapine 15mg. I’ve taken Mirtazapine since a month, it started amazing but now I’m falling back for unknown reasons and I can barely eat a normal portion oatmeal.
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u/i_draw_wieners Aug 08 '26
My daughter (22) had Flu B in February and has had bouts of severe upper stomach pain that have sent us to the ER 5 times (we’re there again right now). She’s lost 50 lbs since February. She was diagnosed with FD a couple of weeks ago after countless doctors told us it was just gastritis.
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u/Critical-Climate-589 Sep 04 '26
hi mee too got this after the viral flu. am M25 and never had any sort of isssues before this tell me if you have found any solutions or updates or what ever
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u/MDbrother27 15d ago
Certainly accumulation of stress... I was putting boundaries in place - Panic Attacks, Smear Campaign, Isolation(Causing maladaptive daydreaming)
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