For 5 yrs Ive had upper left stabbing pain on and off. My lipase (pancreas)lab has been slightly elevated-but drs have done 6 scopes to look at it and its fine (dad died of pan cancer).
Over the past 1.5 yrs Ive had very soft, frequent, bulky stools. In the last few months Ill have a week of total diarreha (as if I have a stomach flu) and then Ill be back to the soft stool for maybe a wk or so then full D again. Currently Im going about 5 times a day from the moment I wake up-things such as pepto do not work for me.
I know this could be a variety of things-but does this sound familiar to anyone? Ive been ruled out for most stomach issues including gallbladder so next is a full colonoscopy. The thing is I had a partial scope- (sig) 6 yrs ago that was normal, though that was when I primarily had pain and not really bowel issues.
I do not have blood in my stool, but do get oil deposits. An also I think I may have a fistula or two based on how it feels down there.
Over the past 1.5 yrs Ive had very soft, frequent, bulky stools. In the last few months Ill have a week of total diarreha (as if I have a stomach flu) and then Ill be back to the soft stool for maybe a wk or so then full D again. Currently Im going about 5 times a day from the moment I wake up-things such as pepto do not work for me.
I know this could be a variety of things-but does this sound familiar to anyone? Ive been ruled out for most stomach issues including gallbladder so next is a full colonoscopy. The thing is I had a partial scope- (sig) 6 yrs ago that was normal, though that was when I primarily had pain and not really bowel issues.
I do not have blood in my stool, but do get oil deposits. An also I think I may have a fistula or two based on how it feels down there.
