Hi,
I'm new here, but not new to the pain. I have been having sharp pain in my stomach for 3 years now.
It first started my last year of college. When I felt the pain, I went to the hospital. I had an amazing urgent care doctor look at me, and from only my symptoms he said I had a problem with my colon. After I had a CT scan, and it reviled that I was having appendicitis. I was in surgery shortly after that. A few weeks after surgery, the sharp pain had come back in the same way as before. My surgeon put me in the hospital again and re ran all the tests. He could not find anything, and I was send out of the hospital with an antacid and still having the sharp pain. I decided to go back to the urgent care again and happened to see the same doctor who saw me before. He still thought it was my colon, ran some more tests. When they came back negative again, he explained how it could be spams of the colon. He gave me some IBS medicine to try, and told me to follow up in a few weeks. Well, the medicine did not work and actually made things worse. He noticed that I kept losing weight fast and that my clothes were getting so loose. He urged me to find a specialist and get colonoscopy.
I found a specialist near college, and he was amazing. We went though a lot of tests. I was almost about to give up when we did a capsule endoscopy. It showed what looked to be erosion in my intestines in the duodenum and ileum. He said he suspected it might be Crohn's Disease. After that test I was put on Pentasa. I instantly noticed a difference in the way I felt, but it did not last more than 2 months. I told the GI doctor how much cipro helped me and I was given that too. While on that combination, I felt great!
Now, the problem is that my GI doctor decided to move unexpectedly. Now that I live near Indianapolis, I have a GI doctor here. He took a look at my record and does not think I have Crohn's. So, now I am re doing all the same tests. He does not want me on the Pentasa and Cipro, and I am back to having pain again. Also, now my liver test has elevated for the past 6 months now. We ran a specific blood test for Crohn's, mine came back positive for one of the markers.
In the mean time, I also found a Primary care doctor close to me. He is more open minded and thinks I may have Crohn's. He even gave me a prescription for prednisone to see how I would react. Let me tell you, It helped and most of the pain in my lower right stomach went away. But I still have pain in my upper right stomach. I went to my PC doctor and he thinks it is coming from my duodenum.
The next test he is looking into is an ERCP for sprinter of the odi dysfunction.
All I know is I have a sharp pain that seems to get really, really strong at times. I think I have Crohn's Disease, but I have not been able to prove it yet. I feel tired all the time and the pain is making me not want to go out and do things. The pain seems to keep me from getting hungry, and this has lasted 3 years.
So my question is, does anyone else never feel hungry?
I'm new here, but not new to the pain. I have been having sharp pain in my stomach for 3 years now.
It first started my last year of college. When I felt the pain, I went to the hospital. I had an amazing urgent care doctor look at me, and from only my symptoms he said I had a problem with my colon. After I had a CT scan, and it reviled that I was having appendicitis. I was in surgery shortly after that. A few weeks after surgery, the sharp pain had come back in the same way as before. My surgeon put me in the hospital again and re ran all the tests. He could not find anything, and I was send out of the hospital with an antacid and still having the sharp pain. I decided to go back to the urgent care again and happened to see the same doctor who saw me before. He still thought it was my colon, ran some more tests. When they came back negative again, he explained how it could be spams of the colon. He gave me some IBS medicine to try, and told me to follow up in a few weeks. Well, the medicine did not work and actually made things worse. He noticed that I kept losing weight fast and that my clothes were getting so loose. He urged me to find a specialist and get colonoscopy.
I found a specialist near college, and he was amazing. We went though a lot of tests. I was almost about to give up when we did a capsule endoscopy. It showed what looked to be erosion in my intestines in the duodenum and ileum. He said he suspected it might be Crohn's Disease. After that test I was put on Pentasa. I instantly noticed a difference in the way I felt, but it did not last more than 2 months. I told the GI doctor how much cipro helped me and I was given that too. While on that combination, I felt great!
Now, the problem is that my GI doctor decided to move unexpectedly. Now that I live near Indianapolis, I have a GI doctor here. He took a look at my record and does not think I have Crohn's. So, now I am re doing all the same tests. He does not want me on the Pentasa and Cipro, and I am back to having pain again. Also, now my liver test has elevated for the past 6 months now. We ran a specific blood test for Crohn's, mine came back positive for one of the markers.
In the mean time, I also found a Primary care doctor close to me. He is more open minded and thinks I may have Crohn's. He even gave me a prescription for prednisone to see how I would react. Let me tell you, It helped and most of the pain in my lower right stomach went away. But I still have pain in my upper right stomach. I went to my PC doctor and he thinks it is coming from my duodenum.
The next test he is looking into is an ERCP for sprinter of the odi dysfunction.
All I know is I have a sharp pain that seems to get really, really strong at times. I think I have Crohn's Disease, but I have not been able to prove it yet. I feel tired all the time and the pain is making me not want to go out and do things. The pain seems to keep me from getting hungry, and this has lasted 3 years.
So my question is, does anyone else never feel hungry?
