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Pain everywhere

I am 20 years old and have been having the same problems as most of you. Not just the physical symptoms but with the doctors not listening or not knowing what to do.

Since January I have been experiencing the sharp pain on the left side along with the sharp lower back pain. I've noticed that my lower back pain usually starts increasing around the time I start ovulating. I've had stomach pains that include severe sharp pains (almost like a poisoned feeling) in the small intestine, large intestine, and illeocecal valve (the part of the intestine that connects the large and small intestine close to the appendix).

At the same time my chest pains started (in January) I started getting extreme nausea that would start out in my stomach and radiate throughout my entire body causing severe dizzines, and an incredibly painful pulsing headache. I've come close to blacking out more times than I can count and I've noticed that the dizziness worsens when I eat sugar, which makes me pretty sure that the problems are pancreas related since the pancreas regulates blood-sugar and insulin.

My stomach pain worsens after eating protein, which also gives me an extremely heavy feeling. I get constipated for weeks at a time and then my bowel movements fluctuate from constipation, and hard stools, to soft loose floating stools. Constipation with these type of symptoms is usually from pancreatic and gallbladder problems because they work together and the gallbladder produces the bile. I've studied nutritional therapy and am a certified nutritional therapist but these problems are much more severe than I can treat myself. I thought I just had IBS,  and then thought it was candida, but still had the same problems and symptoms after going on diets and supplements to cure both of those.

I went to a chiropractic doctor that specializes in natural medicine and he diagnosed me with pancreatic cancer but said that I would have a hard time getting the doctors to be able to find it because it would be in the early stages and still under the radar of C.T scans and conventional medicine. My dad didn't believe him, and we went to an oncologist who laughed at me and said that I'm way too young to have that type of cancer and there's nothing more wrong with me than a slight gas problem. She gave me Nexium for GERDS but the symptoms have still persisted and the Nexium gave me worse headaches. The doctors did blood work, a C.T scan, and a stool test to see if there was anything abnormal but found nothing. At another clinic my mom met a man who had been to every type of specialist with similar symptoms but they never found anything in any of the tests or scans and all of his blood work came back 100% normal. A few months later the doctors found something, told him he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer and had 6 months to live. I'm definitely not saying that everyone has pancreatic cancer but I have no doubt the problems are pancreas related.

The oncologist thought I had either GERDs, or bleeding ulcers and sent me to get a stool test done which came back normal. I have an appointment with a Gastroenterologist but I've been to so many doctors that think there's nothing wrong or that I'm making things up so I really hope they find something soon.


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Your right, your not too young to get pancreatic cancer. It does happen in younger people, however rare.
However, I seriously doubt a chiropractor can diagnose you with pancreatic cancer better than a CT scan. Im actually baffled that this guy is allowed to practice with the diagnosis he gives people. An ultrasound and a ct scan should both show cancer of the pancreas. If I were the oncologist you visited, I wouldve laughed myself. Have your doctor test you for H. Pylori, as your symptoms sound similar to that as well.
I would not spend any time worrying about the chiropractors diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, and as a matter of fact, when it is determined you dont have it, be sure to contact a local news company to expose this guy as a fraud.
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