CONSTANT ABDOMINAL PAIN

[katrina39]

I HAVE ASKED THIS QUESTION BEFORE, BUT TO DATE HAVE NOT GOTTEN A RESPONSE...
SINCE THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER I HAVE NOTICED, CONSTANT ABDOMINAL PAIN, BEGINNING ON MY RIGHT SIDE, GOING DOWN TO THE LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN...  I GET SHARP SHOOTING PAINS AT TIMES, NO FEVER, CONSTANT NAUSEA, NO VOMITING, VERY FATIGUED, SOMETIMES DIARERHHA, OTHERWISE NORMAL BOWEL MOVEMENTS. I HAVE CELIACS DISEASE, SEE A GASTROENTEROLOGIST...  I HAVE HAD CT SCANS WITH CONTRAST DONE, ALOT OF LAB TESTING, A KIDNEY SONO, HAVE HAD TWO SEVERE UTI'S WHICH CLEARED UP...  I HAVE SEEN A UROLOGIST WHO DOES NOT FEEL THIS IS A UROLOGICAL PROBLEM...  THE PAIN IN MY ABDOMEN IS CONSTANT, IT WILL GO FROM SORENESS THROUGHOUT THE ABDOMEN TO THESE SHARP SHOOTING PAINS WHERE I BELIEVE MY APPENDIX IS...  ALL TEST, INDICATE THAT MY DOCTORS CAN FIND NOTHING WRONG, YET I FEEL I AM FAILING ON A RAPID BASIS...  I HAVE VERY LITTLE ENERGY, AND FIND MYSELF LYING IN BED MORE THAN BEING OUT OF BED...  CAN A PERSON HAVE APPENDICITIS, WITHOUT FEVER, NO VOMITING, ALL TESTS RESULTS RETURN NEGATIVE AND YET IT STILL EXISTS...  MY HUSBAND WENT ON AND OFF FOR A YEAR, COMPLAINING OF SHARP PAIN WHERE HIS APPENDIX WAS, UNTIL ONEDAY HE WAS SO SICK, HE WENT TO URGENT CARE, THEY SENT HIM TO THE HOSPITAL AND JUST AS THEY WERE DOING THE SURGERY, HIS APPENDIX BROKE...  I AM JUST STUMPING DOCTORS LEFT AND RIGHT AS TO WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME, YET I KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG...  BEFORE SUMMER SET IN, I WAS WALKING 2.5 MILES PER DAY, DOING STRENGTH TRAINING EXERCISES, ENJOYED LIFE, AND THEN AFTER THE FIRST UTI, EVERYTHING SEEMED TO CHANGE... I HAVE NO APPETITE, MY SENSE OF TASTE HAS CHANGED, NOTHING TASTES GOOD INCLUDING WATER, AND SO I EAT VERY LITTLE...  TODAY, THE SHARP, SHOOTING PAINS ARE VERY INTENSE, YET I HESITATE TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL JUST TO BE TOLD, "THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING"...  I KNOW LITTLE ABOUT APPENDICITIS, CAN ANYONE GIVE ME ANY INFORMATION THAT MIGHT HELP ME...  I AM AT MY WIT'S END, AND DESPERATE...  I ALMOST WISH SOMETHING DRASTIC WOULD HAPPEN SO THAT ATLEAST, THIS COULD COME TO AN END...  HELP PLEASE, ANYONE???    

[churn]

I experenced all of that.  I was in the hopital for 21 days.  After they did the exploratory, I kept a tube for drainage in my stomach for a week.  Hope this has been some help.  If your pain is that bad they can do an exploratory on you.  GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!

[katrina39]

I AM SORRY TO HEAR YOU SUFFER FROM CHRON'S DISEASE...  I KNOW HOW DEBILITATING THIS CAN BE...  GOOD LUCK TO YOU...

I HAVE NO SERIOUSLY THOUGHT OF SEEING ANOTHER GI DOCTOR...  SINCE HIS LAST RESPONSE TO ME LAST WEEK WAS "SEE YOU IN SIX MONTHS", AFTER HE FELT MY ABDOMEN AND I WANTED TO JUMP OFF THE TABLE, I THOUGHT I DON'T HAVE SIX MONTHS LEFT IF I DON'T FIND OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING...

YES, I WANT ANOTHER COLONOSCOPY DONE, BECAUSE I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT A PERSON CAN HAVE THE PRESENCE OF PAIN, WITHOUT A REASON FOR IT'S EXISTANCE...  THAT MY GI DOCTOR WILL NOT TAKE IT ANY FURTHER IS AN INDICATION TO ME IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON, TO SOMEONE WHO WILL CHECK FURTHER...

WHAT A WORLD WE LIVE IN IN WHICH DOCTOR'S JUST PASS YOU OFF, WITHOUT A SECOND CARE IN THE MINDS...  IF IT WERE HAPPENING TO THEM OR ONE OF THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS I DO BELIEVE THEIR TREATMENT WOULD BE TOTALLY DIFFERENT...

THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR RESPONSE AND GOOD LUCK TO YOU...

[katrina39]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR RESPONSE...

I HAD NO IDEA YOUR APPENDIX COULD LEAK, AND CAUSE AN INFECTION...  DID YOU EXPERIENCE, CONSTANT PAIN, CHILLS, LACK OF APPETITIE, FATIGUE, AND YET TESTS RESULTS CAME BACK NEGATIVE?

I WILL TALK TO MY FAMILY DOCTOR ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF WHAT YOU HAVE TOLD ME...  YOU WOULD THINK THAT A GASTRO DOCTOR, TRAINED IN THE SPECIALITY FOR THIS FIELD WOULD ATLEAST GO FURTHER, CONSIDERING THAT HE CANNOT EVEN TOUCH MY ABDOMEN WITHOUT MY WANTING TO JUMP OFF THE TABLE...

HOW INSANE IS THAT...

THANKS FOR YOUR RESPONSE...  GLAD YOU GOT HELP...  

[hdog347]

I had very similar problems and I have crohn's disease. It took them a year to diagnose me so I feel your pain. They need to do a colonoscopy, an upper GI Xray and a CT Scan. If you doctor does not think that is necessary go to another one I saw like 4 before someone thought to do the things I said to do.
Good luck.

[churn]

I hurt like that for months when I was 16. The did an exploretory and my appendix was leaking and I had infection in my abdomine from it. Hope this will help.

[CalGal]

If this has been constant, it's time to ask your doc to do a colonoscopy and check the state of your large intestine. They should be able to get to the terminal ileum to see if there's anything going on there.

Since you're celiac, are you following a strict celiac diet and making sure there's no contamination in anything you're eating? Have you checked to see that you're not cross-reacting to casein, the major protein in dairy? Many celiacs are, unfortunately.

They should have been able to scan and check the status of your appendix with the CT scan. Have you asked to see a copy of the report on the CT scan to try to rule out the presence of anything going on with the appendix?