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Hi everyone 
Glad to have found this forum. I was searching for something, although I have read many of your stories and I don't wish to be diagnosed with Crohn's or UC or any type of IBD, all my tests keep coming back normal and I KNOW something is seriously wrong.
I have been having these horrible episodes since the spring of 2009. The first time, I thought it was food poisoning. I suddenly had awful pain. I was driving in the car and that even made it worse. I got home and had horrible diarrhea and then finally threw up but still felt awful. After a few hours I felt mostly better but not great. I continued to have a lot of diarrhea for months but nothing like that, so I figured as the doctor told me, I had IBS to go along with my chronic headaches and migraine.
Last August I had 3 episodes in 2 weeks where I started feeling intense cramping pain that got worse quickly and then the horrible diarrhea and throwing up. Once was in the middle of the night. Then it never happened again. I was a little more alarmed but again my doctor didn't seem to care, and I was not insured because I had just started a new job.
This started again in January and has been happening until June about every week to every other week. It is horrible intense pain that leaves me on the bathroom floor crying when I'm not on the toilet. Sometimes it wakes me up in the middle of the night or early morning. I missed so much work. I have gone to the bathroom in my sleep.
Every day I struggle to keep my eyes open on my way home from work. I can and often do sleep for hours when I get home from work and can still go to bed at 10:00 and sleep through the night. I have constant SI joint pain, although I have had pain there for years. My bloodwork is all normal though, except for a slight vitamin D deficiency that my doctor neglected to tell me about.
I have had an upper endo (slight irritation in my stomach), x-ray of my abdomen, and ultrasound of my abdomen. I got a new doctor when she told me that I was fine and I had perhaps serious heartburn and to take prevacid and continue taking the anti-spasmodics that have done NOTHING for me. I'm waiting for the results of stool tests. I am getting a Barium swallow tomorrow and hope to find some answers. I guess I'm just hoping that maybe this sounds like someone else's story and there's hope for a diagnosis, or maybe there's something else out there that it could be. It's just baffling that doctors can't seem to figure it out or don't really seem to care, as you all know I'm sure.
Thanks!
Glad to have found this forum. I was searching for something, although I have read many of your stories and I don't wish to be diagnosed with Crohn's or UC or any type of IBD, all my tests keep coming back normal and I KNOW something is seriously wrong.
I have been having these horrible episodes since the spring of 2009. The first time, I thought it was food poisoning. I suddenly had awful pain. I was driving in the car and that even made it worse. I got home and had horrible diarrhea and then finally threw up but still felt awful. After a few hours I felt mostly better but not great. I continued to have a lot of diarrhea for months but nothing like that, so I figured as the doctor told me, I had IBS to go along with my chronic headaches and migraine.
Last August I had 3 episodes in 2 weeks where I started feeling intense cramping pain that got worse quickly and then the horrible diarrhea and throwing up. Once was in the middle of the night. Then it never happened again. I was a little more alarmed but again my doctor didn't seem to care, and I was not insured because I had just started a new job.
This started again in January and has been happening until June about every week to every other week. It is horrible intense pain that leaves me on the bathroom floor crying when I'm not on the toilet. Sometimes it wakes me up in the middle of the night or early morning. I missed so much work. I have gone to the bathroom in my sleep.
Every day I struggle to keep my eyes open on my way home from work. I can and often do sleep for hours when I get home from work and can still go to bed at 10:00 and sleep through the night. I have constant SI joint pain, although I have had pain there for years. My bloodwork is all normal though, except for a slight vitamin D deficiency that my doctor neglected to tell me about.
I have had an upper endo (slight irritation in my stomach), x-ray of my abdomen, and ultrasound of my abdomen. I got a new doctor when she told me that I was fine and I had perhaps serious heartburn and to take prevacid and continue taking the anti-spasmodics that have done NOTHING for me. I'm waiting for the results of stool tests. I am getting a Barium swallow tomorrow and hope to find some answers. I guess I'm just hoping that maybe this sounds like someone else's story and there's hope for a diagnosis, or maybe there's something else out there that it could be. It's just baffling that doctors can't seem to figure it out or don't really seem to care, as you all know I'm sure.
Thanks!
