what is wrong with me????

[ashgrant19]

25 year old female. over weight. I am not normally a tired person. the last two months i have been So tired all the time even when i get enough sleep and relax all day.
I have loose watery stools that are happening up to 5 times a day with urgency. I have had some rectal bleeding off and on since my son was born 7 months ago and some blood in stools. maybe once a month.
intense pain during bowel movements when the stool is "normalish" with
tons of undigested food in my stool. especially lettuce and shredded wheat.
I have horrible period like cramps when i don't have my period.
intense joint pain in my knees hands and legs mostly.
bad itchy skin rashes that come and go randomly.
cholestasis of pregnancy diagnosed during pregnancy but I had symptoms
long before i was pregnant.
symptoms started as painful bowel movements after my first c csection
and gallbladder removal three years ago. and has gotten much worse
as time goes on.
father has rectal cancer stage 2. also has diverticulitis and a huge
number of polyps in colon.

[ashgrant19]

thanks alot. i do not have insurance but i am going to get in touch with a few clinics and find out if i can get some kind of testing done low cost or free. i will definetly keep you guys updated.

[CalGal]

Make sure you're checked for celiac disease which can cause symptoms such as you're describing. It's not something that many docs suspect since symptoms of many GI issues are often similar.

[ggreg]

Diarrhea like yours suggests so many possible sources, it's hard to say exactly what's going on.  Could be the common bile duct is blocked somehow, which bile helps digest food.  A scan or ultrasound would find any major abnormalities in your digestive tract as a whole.  Could also be you have a bacteria floating around in your intestines that is causing diarrhea, and that can be diagnosed by a stool sample and bloodwork.  Seeing a gastroenterologist would be your best bet, altho they often throw a colonoscopy at a person as a diagnostic tool before doing the simple procedures I have mentioned.  Considering your father's history, later you could have a colonoscopy, which when the doc is in there, he gets rid of polyps, which helps prevent colon cancer, as those things sometimes turn into cancer.

Now, your symptoms began as painful bowel movements after your first C-section, so I'd bet it was the anesthesia or drug medicines they give that stopped you up.  I had another type of surgery, and I was stopped up for a week, and I've heard others say the same.  Also, carrying a baby can rearrange your insides on occasion, and that may be what's going on, like a twisted bowel or something, which would show up doing those procedures I told you about.  As for those cramps, that is what diarrhea does, makes abdominal muscles squeeze hard, which hurts like the devil.  If you are taking ANY kind of medication right now for whatever, do review the side effects and adjust as needed.  I was on a tranquilizer one time that gave me daily diarrhea for six months, all tests were normal, until I realized it was the drug I was on.

Visit your regular doc and get a referral to a gastro doc, and specifically ask for an ultrasound and/or scan.  In the meantime, drink some extra water since diarrhea dehydrates a person and also water helps digestion a lot.  You can get some "probiotics" in you, via Acidophilus milk, Activia yogurt, or pills at the health food store, it helps improve the flora in the intestines, a couple weeks of those is all you would need for now.  You can put some plain KY jelly (not the flavored kinds) on your rear after you bathe, it will ease the irritation on hemorrhoids you probably have, which they will bleed when waste goes by them.  Let us know what the doc says, if you like, and I hope it's not any cancer, but I don't think it is.