Hey everyone, this is my first time posting on this forum. I've been reading posts for the last few months but finally mustered up the courage to post my own story, so here goes...
I'm a 21 year old psychology student and I began feeling ill around the end of this past October during midterms, stomach pains, fever, no appetite, etc, I just wrote it off as a regular stomach bug. But when the pain and discomfort didn't go away I knew something was wrong. It took a while for my parents to realize something was wrong, they believed it to be part of my depression/anxiety, maybe a problem with my medication or something else. I knew that I felt completely different and in more physical pain that when I feel depressed, and I had been on my antidepressant medication for 6 months before this. I made an appointment with my PCP and they ran blood tests on top of blood tests, everything came back normal. They gave me some antispasmodics (bentyl) and antacids which made everything a lot worse. My roommate at the time has Crohn's and suggested that I see a GI because our symptoms matched up perfectly. The way that I described how I was feeling to her is exactly the same way she feels when she has a flare up. I finally was able to get an appointment with a GI and had an endoscopy done, which came back showing inflammation in my stomach with the biopsy they took confirming that. At my next GI appt he decided that it must be my gallbladder causing all of these issues, and scheduled me for a HIDA scan, which I just recently had done a few days ago, but that came back completely normal. My GI gave me pantoprazole and had me make a follow up in 6 weeks.
So basically, my symptoms are constant pain and discomfort all throughout my abdomen, feeling as though my stomach is being ripped to shreds/stabbed EVERY time after eating (doesnt matter what I eat, it hurts), a variety of soft stool, constipation, or burning diarrhea, haven't seen blood yet. The constant pain used to be dull but it gradually got worse and it preventing me from sleeping. It is really difficult for me to manage going to college and really just everything else in my daily life has become a struggle. I don't want to eat because I know there will be pain. It is getting to the point where I can no longer deal with the pain and just want to go to the ER, someone help :confused2:
I'm a 21 year old psychology student and I began feeling ill around the end of this past October during midterms, stomach pains, fever, no appetite, etc, I just wrote it off as a regular stomach bug. But when the pain and discomfort didn't go away I knew something was wrong. It took a while for my parents to realize something was wrong, they believed it to be part of my depression/anxiety, maybe a problem with my medication or something else. I knew that I felt completely different and in more physical pain that when I feel depressed, and I had been on my antidepressant medication for 6 months before this. I made an appointment with my PCP and they ran blood tests on top of blood tests, everything came back normal. They gave me some antispasmodics (bentyl) and antacids which made everything a lot worse. My roommate at the time has Crohn's and suggested that I see a GI because our symptoms matched up perfectly. The way that I described how I was feeling to her is exactly the same way she feels when she has a flare up. I finally was able to get an appointment with a GI and had an endoscopy done, which came back showing inflammation in my stomach with the biopsy they took confirming that. At my next GI appt he decided that it must be my gallbladder causing all of these issues, and scheduled me for a HIDA scan, which I just recently had done a few days ago, but that came back completely normal. My GI gave me pantoprazole and had me make a follow up in 6 weeks.
So basically, my symptoms are constant pain and discomfort all throughout my abdomen, feeling as though my stomach is being ripped to shreds/stabbed EVERY time after eating (doesnt matter what I eat, it hurts), a variety of soft stool, constipation, or burning diarrhea, haven't seen blood yet. The constant pain used to be dull but it gradually got worse and it preventing me from sleeping. It is really difficult for me to manage going to college and really just everything else in my daily life has become a struggle. I don't want to eat because I know there will be pain. It is getting to the point where I can no longer deal with the pain and just want to go to the ER, someone help :confused2: