Through most of my life I've had bowel pain it was especially bad at school, whereby even when my bowels were on fire I held it in because I was scared of being bullied near the toilets. As an adult there was the situation with a bout of what we believed to be food poisoning with the feeling that my bowels whereabout to burn away to nothing, I was in tears praying for help. I was rushed into hospital and from then through the months it became difficult to eat going from 14stone to 8 stone. They told me I had IBS and to stay on bland foods which didn't help at all, The only way it came back to normal health was relying on oven chips with low fat.
Although my weight improved I still had moments of flare ups with me on the floor holding my bowels screaming in agony!.
When I became 30 I started to get upper stomach issues located underneath the sternum, constantly feeling as If my upper area was being cut from the inside. They said it was heartburn and gave me ranitidine to take once a day, I was still having attacks and had to raise my bed although it got slightly better it will still had moments of severity. I went to the gym and tried to get my fitness up and some muscle strength and again my life took a down hill turn.
Stomach pain, bowel pain burning diarrhea and they put me on pantoprazole to take twice a day. Ended up having a camera down my throat and they said it was a small HH and shouldn't cause the issues. I became afraid of eating and kept on having these attacks underneath my sternum upper stomach when at it's worse makes me want to cry and the irritation makes me cough. I had another camera and I was told I had Duodenal Ulcers 10 small ones and the bowel issue wasn't related it was IBS!.
It got worse in my upper stomach (pain) they ended up giving me tramadol which I can't take because of the severe nausia and sickness, paracetamol doesn't work and codiene doesn't work either. I was told I needed to go into London to have a PH probe which is 100 miles away but there is a huge waiting time, they kept on getting dates wrong and being autistic need someone with me. When I get this pain attack in my upper stomach it affects my breathing it feels like my entire stomach area to chest goes tight yet my lungs have been tested at 100%, my heart is spot on, my kidneys are good.
The last four weeks my bowels kicked off again, I had no stools for 7days then severe diarrhea for another 7, my bowels where burning especially on the lower left side. Through most of my life I always pass stools with mucus but this time it was full of it and sometimes my stools came out yellow and it was incredibly acidic my bowels felt like they were burning away. They calmed down and I stopped going for three, the other night huge flare up I was shaking... sweating... crying in agony!.
Taken into hospital both my GP and hospital are saying it's most likely either chrohns or colitis and waiting for a camera to go the other way up. So all this time it wasn't IBS.
However tonight the pain in my upper stomach near sternum is too much, I'm in so much pain the irritation is causing me to cough. I've already had my ppi's today, All I've had is egg pasta and salmon with some no lactose rise pudding. I'm in so much pain I can't even lay in the bath.
All my gp's and hospital staff keep throwing these ideas out and I wait months and months while my weight keeps going down. I have no life and I can't find pain medication that actually works and doesn't make me want to vomit everytime I stand up.
Although my weight improved I still had moments of flare ups with me on the floor holding my bowels screaming in agony!.
When I became 30 I started to get upper stomach issues located underneath the sternum, constantly feeling as If my upper area was being cut from the inside. They said it was heartburn and gave me ranitidine to take once a day, I was still having attacks and had to raise my bed although it got slightly better it will still had moments of severity. I went to the gym and tried to get my fitness up and some muscle strength and again my life took a down hill turn.
Stomach pain, bowel pain burning diarrhea and they put me on pantoprazole to take twice a day. Ended up having a camera down my throat and they said it was a small HH and shouldn't cause the issues. I became afraid of eating and kept on having these attacks underneath my sternum upper stomach when at it's worse makes me want to cry and the irritation makes me cough. I had another camera and I was told I had Duodenal Ulcers 10 small ones and the bowel issue wasn't related it was IBS!.
It got worse in my upper stomach (pain) they ended up giving me tramadol which I can't take because of the severe nausia and sickness, paracetamol doesn't work and codiene doesn't work either. I was told I needed to go into London to have a PH probe which is 100 miles away but there is a huge waiting time, they kept on getting dates wrong and being autistic need someone with me. When I get this pain attack in my upper stomach it affects my breathing it feels like my entire stomach area to chest goes tight yet my lungs have been tested at 100%, my heart is spot on, my kidneys are good.
The last four weeks my bowels kicked off again, I had no stools for 7days then severe diarrhea for another 7, my bowels where burning especially on the lower left side. Through most of my life I always pass stools with mucus but this time it was full of it and sometimes my stools came out yellow and it was incredibly acidic my bowels felt like they were burning away. They calmed down and I stopped going for three, the other night huge flare up I was shaking... sweating... crying in agony!.
Taken into hospital both my GP and hospital are saying it's most likely either chrohns or colitis and waiting for a camera to go the other way up. So all this time it wasn't IBS.
However tonight the pain in my upper stomach near sternum is too much, I'm in so much pain the irritation is causing me to cough. I've already had my ppi's today, All I've had is egg pasta and salmon with some no lactose rise pudding. I'm in so much pain I can't even lay in the bath.
All my gp's and hospital staff keep throwing these ideas out and I wait months and months while my weight keeps going down. I have no life and I can't find pain medication that actually works and doesn't make me want to vomit everytime I stand up.