Q. Persistent post-meal bloating — is it functional dyspepsia?
If endoscopy is normal but post-meal bloating, early satiety, upper abdominal discomfort persist for 3+ months, it's diagnosed as functional dyspepsia. A typical condition where Korean medicine works well.
📝 Detailed Answer
It is possible, but functional dyspepsia is a name attached after other causes have been excluded.
That is, it is diagnosed after confirming there is no organic cause such as gastritis, gastric ulcer, gallstones or a pancreatic problem. So we first ask whether you have had an endoscopy.
The characteristics of functional dyspepsia are these. You feel full after only a little, the fullness after eating lasts long, the epigastrium burns or hurts, and the symptoms go up and down. It often moves in step with stress.
If any of the following applies, please be sure to tell us at the consultation. If examination indicates it, we will arrange testing. A symptom arising for the first time after the age of forty, weight loss, difficulty swallowing, repeated vomiting, black stools, anaemia, and a family history of gastric cancer.
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