Stomach pain, colon/intestinal spasms,dizziness, fatigue, salmonella

[Snowball22]

The past year and a half have been a nightmare for me.  To preface all of this, I have just recently found out that I have been eating peanut butter with salmonella since 2004. In late 2004, I was starting to feel a little off but did not know what was up.  In the Fall of 2005, I went back to school to become a dental assistant and received my first Hep B shot in which I reacted violently to.  I almost died as my body kept trying to shut down.  I had violent chronic D for over a year, my vision became blurry, my thoughts were disjointed, I had muscle atrophy in the legs, I have chronic fatigue, intestinal/colon spasms, stabbing pain in the intestinal/stomach region, low back pain, anxiety, and became alleric to most foods.  At first, I blamed my reactions on the Hep B vaccine but now think that I probably received the vaccine with salmonella running through me at the same time which caused this horrific reaction.  In November of 2006, I went gluten free which stopped the D.  In Feb of 2007, I stopped eating the salmonella peanut butter which stopped the inflamation and low back pain.  The symptoms I have currently are: fatigue, intestinal/colon spasms, sharp jabbing pains in my stomach/ovary/intestinal region, and a sensation of my blood feeling like it has bacteria or infection in it.  Until I stopped eating the peanut butter , for the past year and a half, I have had the following tests:
3 full blood work ups--normal
CT scan--diverticuli
MRI--small lesion on left kidney(nurse did not seemed concerned)
stool samples and urine tested-normal
PAP--normal

I am at my wits end with trying to figure out what is wrong with me.  If it is Salmonella, how long until it works itself out of me?  I just want to feel normal again.  Any ideas?

[bopp]

I am a 44 yr old female, 5'7, 136 lbs & until recently have been in perfect health.  I own a fitness center, so have very healthy eating & exercise habits.  Except, I go through these periods where I eat things that are not necessarily healthy when consumed in large quantities. In Sept '06, I started eating peter pan peanut butter.  I consumed atleast 1-2 jars/week.  I have receipts for 20 jars purchased between 9/06 & 1/07 (I keep receipts for paper product business writeoffs).  Dec & Jan, I had bad diarrehea, developed a small lump on my spine that hurt when it was pressed on.  Went for xrays for lump & severe lower back pain.  Orthopedic surgeon saw a distended colon & gas because now my bowel movement changed to extremely hard/painful movements.  Ordered mri for my back.  Went to ER for severe abdominal pain that weekend, CT scan was normal.  Was not tested for salmonella because had no reason to think I had it.  MRI showed nothing, painful lump still on my spine.  Rheumatologist ordered bone scan to rule out cancer.  Scan did not show anything, thank goodness.  Oh yeah, On Feb 15th, after finding out about peanut butter, had my jar tested @ the health dept, came back with positive results.  Scheduled to see a infectious disease dr this fri. I feel like ****.  I am always tired because I have been have so many dreams at night.  My stomach is still on the blink with poops like cement & the lump is still on my spine.

When I read your post, I could not believe the similiarities.  How are you doing now?

[yesseca122]

I'm 27 yrs old about a year ago I was almost 300lbs I started to feel fatigue and dizzy with this sharp pain in my left side of the abdomen .I kept going to the doctor ct scans were normal but blood test show high levels of white blood cells so I would go on antibiotics the doctors couldnt pin point the source of the infection. I hated that the doctors told me that it was all just stress and that antidepressan would help I change to 3 different doctors finally I was referred to a GI specialist and I had a colonoscopy done I was diagnosed with diverticulitis wich did appear on the 3 ct scans I had done also i was diagnosed with IBS. IBS causes a lot spasms also and infections of the diverticulis those too.

[jhf1020]

Everything you were saying in your post is what im going through now.  I was just wandering how your doing now and what was your treatment?

[Gpsnohelp]

I live in Australia and I've been looking for solutions for these same problems. Stabbing pain the intestinal area, constant painful spasms that make me feel dizzy and almost pass out. Each bout last for hours, I have had this for years. Doctors don't seem to know what it is. I have had tests for allergies to dairy, wheat etc which came back normal. Even so, a person can still suffer from digestion probs from these foods without being allergic to them. I have given up red meat because I know it can cause polyps and cancer of the bowel. There is no blood apparent. The pain moves around all over the intestinal area and I can feel the bowel spasming continuously. I can only sleep in certain positions so that I don't wake up in agony. Does someone have an answer to these  problems because the drs don't have a clue. I had a colonoscopy years ago which came back normal. I have had scans for other things which didn't show anything up in the