How long does it take to recover from digestive disorders

There is no unified time standard for the recovery of digestive disorders. Mild cases can be significantly relieved by simply adjusting your diet and rest in 1 to 2 weeks. People with a longer course of disease, combined with emotional triggers, or people with poor eating habits all year round may need 3 to 6 months or even longer long-term management to stabilize.

I have been working as a follow-up doctor in the Department of Gastroenterology for almost 4 years. I have seen too many people struggle with this issue of time. They always think that they will be cured by taking medicine for two days, but they panic when it doesn’t work. This is really not the case. I just followed up with a junior girl last month. In order to catch up on her review for the postgraduate entrance examination, for more than two months in a row, she had to either eat bread to make ends meet, or eat spicy takeout in the middle of the night when she was hungry after studying. Later, she would suffer from acid bloating and gastrointestinal problems after eating something cold. After a gastrointestinal endoscopy, everything was fine, which is a typical functional disorder. She later listened to the advice and stopped all iced coffee and milk tea. She set three alarm clocks every day to remind herself to eat on time. She stood for 15 minutes after meals before sitting down to read. She rubbed her belly clockwise for 10 minutes before going to bed. She didn't even prescribe any medicine. Within 10 days, she reported that she had basically no acid reflux problems and her bowel movements were regular.

Of course not everyone can recover so quickly. In the past two years, I came into contact with a 42-year-old corporate salesman who socialized and drank all the time. When he was under great performance pressure, he would overeat to relieve stress. He suffered from alternating diarrhea and constipation for three years. During this period, he bought probiotics and digestive medicines, which were effective when he took them, but the problem returned after half a month. Later, he adjusted according to our follow-up plan. Not only did he change his habit of eating takeout and drinking, but he also ran 3 kilometers three days a week to relieve stress. Occasionally, when he was in poor condition, he took some medicine to regulate gastrointestinal motility. After almost half a year of adjustment, his symptoms were completely stable. The latest follow-up said he had not had a stomachache for almost a year.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the recovery time is so different. Digestive disorder itself is a "functional" problem, just like the hardware of your mobile phone is not broken or broken, but if you open too many backgrounds and cache too much, it will freeze.

Many people are still arguing on the Internet, saying that digestive disorders must be cured by taking medicine, or that they can rely on nutrition without taking medicine at all. In fact, both of these opinions are a bit extreme. If you just occasionally suffer from flatulence after eating too much and are constipated for two days in a row, there is no need to take medicine. Adjust your diet and eat more whole grains and vegetables. Don't stay up too late, and most of the time you will be able to recover on your own. But if you have frequent abdominal pain, diarrhea and constipation, which has affected your normal work and school, it is not a bad thing to use some medicine to help your stomach and intestines get through the high reaction period. There is no need to bear the pain.

To be honest, you really don’t need to count the days every day to figure out when you will get better. From now on, you can stay up less late at night, don’t eat heavy food to death, and don’t hold back the stress. Your recovery will definitely be much faster than if you eat and drink indiscriminately while hoping for a special medicine.