Ok, so Ill try to start from the beginning.....Currently I am 32 years old...
Ive grown up a kid who dealt with anxiety. Still do here and there. I was diagnosed with general anxiety and panic disorder.
Forward to about 7 years ago 2009 I was on a beach trip with family. I started getting an abdominal pain start coming on.. It hurt. I thought it was maybe gas or something, so I went and bought some gas-x and ate them like crazy. They did not help. I laid in bed all night with the pain getting worse through the night, and eventually calming down the next day. I shrugged it off.
Well ever since, these pains have come and gone, and still do today. I have never been diagnosed yet. The pain i can usually tell when I am going to have one. I will get a dull just general small ache / cramping / twisting feeling in my lower right abdominal area, its standable, but by the night time I am usually hurting very bad. Hard to stand up straight, I feel like I am bloated, and if my stomach is pressed on it is super sore. I used to get a low grade 99-101 fever as well with them. The next day I would still be sore all through the day and eventually it would be gone for the majority by the end of day 3. My back will ache and between shoulder blades will also ache. Lately I dont seem to chill or get fever as much with them, but the pain and soreness / bloated etc still hurts.
Oh, and I also notice that i dont seem to poop much when I get these, and when I do, my stools are short strips, so almost flat like. During the pain or close to the end I will get pretty dark urine as well.
This has been going on now for 7 years. I have been in the hospital before where they xrayed me, gave me IV fluids, but no diagnosis.
I have been to GI doctor who has done stool sample, endoscopy, colonoscopy (have had 2 colon scopes so far..the first one he found 2 polyps, so i go every 5 years now..2nd scope was clean). I have had exploratory surgery through my belly button where they took out my appendix while in there. He said it looked like i had some fecal stones in it. I thought that would maybe be the cause. Nope, still get the pains.
I was told by the GI doc nothing turns up for what he tests for, im not loosing any weight, i dont look sickly (jaundice). I dont have any blood, and my scopes look clean except for the early polyps i had and he had removed at my age of 25. After nothing ever being found, and my numerous trips, I just kind of started giving up and have learned to live with it. Its obviously something very wrong / going to eventually wear down my body, or its just some weird thing.
Now, i started talking to my mom who has Ankylosing Spondylitis. She is HLA-B27, so she recommended I get tested for this gene. She has bad swelling of her joints / ankles etc. My general doc was reluctant to test me for it, as he didnt feel it really has anything to do with my issues.
Well my test came back that I am HLA-B27 positive. So thats where I am left. He never mentioned testing any further or investigating any further, and well I just started dealing with it, so we just kind of dropped the ball.
I recently changed jobs, and moved to a new area, and it seemed like it went away for a few a long time. I thought maybe since I had stopped dipping tobacco that maybe that had been the cause of the flares....well fast forward to two months ago, and I had the flare up / attacks again. I have had a couple now over the past couple of months, so its still will me and I am still undiagnosed with any cause for my pains.
My mom thinks i should start back and trying to find out my issue, and thinks i should speak to a rheumatologist.
Anyone have any kind of similar issues? Suggestions??
Ive grown up a kid who dealt with anxiety. Still do here and there. I was diagnosed with general anxiety and panic disorder.
Forward to about 7 years ago 2009 I was on a beach trip with family. I started getting an abdominal pain start coming on.. It hurt. I thought it was maybe gas or something, so I went and bought some gas-x and ate them like crazy. They did not help. I laid in bed all night with the pain getting worse through the night, and eventually calming down the next day. I shrugged it off.
Well ever since, these pains have come and gone, and still do today. I have never been diagnosed yet. The pain i can usually tell when I am going to have one. I will get a dull just general small ache / cramping / twisting feeling in my lower right abdominal area, its standable, but by the night time I am usually hurting very bad. Hard to stand up straight, I feel like I am bloated, and if my stomach is pressed on it is super sore. I used to get a low grade 99-101 fever as well with them. The next day I would still be sore all through the day and eventually it would be gone for the majority by the end of day 3. My back will ache and between shoulder blades will also ache. Lately I dont seem to chill or get fever as much with them, but the pain and soreness / bloated etc still hurts.
Oh, and I also notice that i dont seem to poop much when I get these, and when I do, my stools are short strips, so almost flat like. During the pain or close to the end I will get pretty dark urine as well.
This has been going on now for 7 years. I have been in the hospital before where they xrayed me, gave me IV fluids, but no diagnosis.
I have been to GI doctor who has done stool sample, endoscopy, colonoscopy (have had 2 colon scopes so far..the first one he found 2 polyps, so i go every 5 years now..2nd scope was clean). I have had exploratory surgery through my belly button where they took out my appendix while in there. He said it looked like i had some fecal stones in it. I thought that would maybe be the cause. Nope, still get the pains.
I was told by the GI doc nothing turns up for what he tests for, im not loosing any weight, i dont look sickly (jaundice). I dont have any blood, and my scopes look clean except for the early polyps i had and he had removed at my age of 25. After nothing ever being found, and my numerous trips, I just kind of started giving up and have learned to live with it. Its obviously something very wrong / going to eventually wear down my body, or its just some weird thing.
Now, i started talking to my mom who has Ankylosing Spondylitis. She is HLA-B27, so she recommended I get tested for this gene. She has bad swelling of her joints / ankles etc. My general doc was reluctant to test me for it, as he didnt feel it really has anything to do with my issues.
Well my test came back that I am HLA-B27 positive. So thats where I am left. He never mentioned testing any further or investigating any further, and well I just started dealing with it, so we just kind of dropped the ball.
I recently changed jobs, and moved to a new area, and it seemed like it went away for a few a long time. I thought maybe since I had stopped dipping tobacco that maybe that had been the cause of the flares....well fast forward to two months ago, and I had the flare up / attacks again. I have had a couple now over the past couple of months, so its still will me and I am still undiagnosed with any cause for my pains.
My mom thinks i should start back and trying to find out my issue, and thinks i should speak to a rheumatologist.
Anyone have any kind of similar issues? Suggestions??
