Every time I don't eat for 20 hours, it doesn't hurt that bad.

The when I finally have to eat again the pain returns.

Maybe some day I'll stop eating forever and the pain will be gone 🫠

Edit: for those making suggestions, I've tried just about everything you can think of from supplements to real / fake doctors to therapy to exercise to lots of diet changes. I have even been treated for SIBO with no change in symptoms. I do have low stomach acid though, betaine Hcl helped, took it for a few months, some but the effect was more mental than physical (I assume because I absorbed more nutrients with betaine than without).

Edit 2: for this asking what are my symptoms, it's hard to describe all of it because the list of symptoms is almost endless from one day to the next but I'll list the main ones, plus as much as I can remember right now:

- Bloating, I look pregnant all the time even if I fast, even eating little and being very active

- Tightness

- Reflux

- GERD

- Feeling like my duodenom is full and can't take anymore food, or even higher up it feels full/stuck (endoscopy was clean though, not even inflammation)

- Insanely horrible smelling gas that comes out when I sleep

- Tightness for probably 12 hours after I eat.

- Mild constant pain

- Insomnia due to the stomach discomfort. I'll literally fall asleep if I take pepto.

- Horrible sleep quality. Even if it take pepto, or sleep meds, I wake up every single day feeling like somebody beat the shit out of me all night long, and like I basically didn't sleep at all. I'd say 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep for me now with this issue is equivalent to about 3 hours of sleep back before I had this issue. This has been going on for 4 years.

- Fatigue, probably mostly due to the sleep issues but hard to tell

- Anxiety, occasional panic attacks

- Depression

- Brain fog (this is not from the sleep issues, came on first and gets worse the worse my stomach is)

- Other organs just hurt occasionally with no explanation, to the point where imaging was recommended but didn't show anything. This includes kidneys, bladder, testes. One provider suggested it's because I'm so swollen that it's pushing against the other organs.