Pre-Hunger Stomach Burning

[Mister Zero]

For the past few months, every time before I get hungry, my stomach burns a few minutes before rumbling.

What's causing it and how can I treat it?

[Techno Monster]

It may be heart burn because there is no food in your stomach to protect the lining of it, try tums.

[Random_oso06]

It may be heart burn because there is no food in your stomach to protect the lining of it, try tums.

yea you should try it

[dogman]

this happens to me, i think, when i am like super hungry, i get so hungry, i start to get really bad stomoch pains and i bend over b'se the pain is so bad

the only way i solve this is by eating

[The Batman]

Heart burn isn't caused by lack of food and the only thing that needs protection from stomach acid is the stomach.
Hunger pangs: what are they and what do they mean?
When food is present in the stomach, peristaltic or wavelike, muscle contractions sweep through the walls of the stomach and help to mix food with gastric juices. However, another kind of intense muscle contraction, called hunger contractions, occur when the stomach has been empty for several hours. Hunger contractions are peristaltic contractions, mainly restricted to the body of the stomach. They can often be particularly strong, resulting in a contraction that lasts for two to three minutes! Hunger contractions are usually most intense in young people, who often have a higher degree of gastrointestinal "muscle tone" than older people. In addition, these contractions are increased by a low level of glucose in the blood, which usually occurs when an individual has not eaten for several hours.
When individuals have hunger contractions, they frequently experience pain in the pit of their stomachs. This pain, referred to as hunger pangs, usually does not begin until 12 to 24 hours after the last ingestion of food. In your question, you state that you experience hunger pangs even when you are not hungry. I can think of a few possible reasons for this. However, before I list some possibilities, I want to emphasize that my answer to the question you submitted to MadSci Network should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice. If you feel that you have a health problem, you should seek professional medical assistance. One reason you may have ‘hunger pangs’ when you do not feel hungry is that perhaps you are hungry but you just do not feel that are. In this instance, you might think back to when you last ate, and the amount of food consumed at that time. Another possibility is that you are not experiencing hunger pangs, but rather pain of a different origin. Abdominal pain can result from a large number of things--hunger, stress, as well as a number of physiological disturbances. One way that physicians can narrow down these possibilities is by asking patients about the quality of the pain (for example, diffuse versus localized), and the specific location of pain in the abdomen.
I hope you find this information helpful. Should you have any further question, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are interested in reading more, I suggest a general medical physiology text. For my answer, I referred to Textbook of Medical Physiology, ninth edition, by Arthur C. Guyton and John E. Hall.


I found this on http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-10/940277344.Gb.r.html and they asked a very similar question.

[Mister Zero]

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I hope to God that's it because I've been trying to find out what my problem is called for months before I head to the doctor.