Hello,
I am a 27 yr old female who is overweight and a smoker. Around thanksgiving I went to the ER because I was having back and chest pains. They took blood, my white blood cell count was 13,000 (they said normal should be 11,000), said I was fighting something and diagnosed me with bronchitis. I have had bronchitis, I knew this was not the case. They prescribed me with Zithromax and I took the full course and still had pains.
I went back to my local dr. He then ordered an EKG. I was informed it came back abnormal and then sent me for a cardiolite (sp) stress test. Thats the test where they inject your heart with dye twice and do the treadmill. The results came back normal, so my heart is fine thankfully!
I was still having chest and back pains, and getting a few pains under my right breast and my upper right side. It felt more like cramping but didn't last long. I still have the side pain, but it's more like a dull pain now. The back pains are mainly higher up near my shoulder blades. My Doctor thinks it is either heartburn or gallstones. He put me on Aciphex for a month and told me if symptoms still occur, he wants to send me for an ultrasound to check for gallstones.
A few nights ago, I had very bad pains under my right breast, it was right after I had eaten. I also had the pains happen in the middle of the night twice. The next morning, I was not feeling very well and was having major cramps. I went to the bathroom and didn't have constipation or diarrhea. My stool was soft, light brown and didn't float. I was in the bathroom on and off for about an hour. I was getting sweats and my body was forcing me to push, while most of the time not much came out. It was almost like dry heaves, but at the other end of the body. I didn't notice anything other than the stool.
This also happened twice about 2 months ago.
While I don't know if this is because of gallstones or not, I won't know probably until the end of the month since I am only 1 week into taking the heartburn pills, my question is: If these are gallstones, can you pass them like I described? I haven't been able to find out any information about passing gallstones and what happens. Also, with my white blood count higher than normal, I am fighting off some kind of infection, can it be high just because of heartburn?
Also, the only other medication I am currently on besides the Aciphex is the Depo shot for birth control.
Thanks for any information you can help me with, it's greatly appreciated!