Finally some relief from abdominal pain...

[DigitalMan]

Some of you may remember my posts about my wife having attacks of extremely bad upper abdominal pain that didn't get any better after gall bladder removal. Until a few months ago, nothing seemed to affect the pain. It just came and went, though it seemed to happen more frequently around 4-7 am. She has had every test you can think of and nothing shows the source of the pain. However, a few months ago her GI put her on a medication called "URSO 250" and since then her level of pain has been reduced. She still has the attacks of pain, but the highest they go is to around a 6 on a scale of 1-10, rather than all the way to 10. We haven't been to the ER since she started this medicine. This doesn't mean she is cured, but it has given her some relief and hopefully will be a clue to the doctors about the source of her pain. I guess this medicine can break up very small stones flowing through the bile ducts. One of the things it treats is Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, but apparently can help other things too. Not sure if she might have PBC or not. I found  some info on URSO 250 and PBC at http://pbcers.org/. Everyone here has been so helpful that I wanted to share something that I'm hoping could help someone else find relief from their pain.

In a follow up to this post I'll post the details about her condition that I have posted here so that you can see if this might match your symptoms.

Guy Kendall

[Summer2002]

you didn't mention her liver,,,, any blood work for that?  any cat scan for it too to check if fat infiltration? I am going to think more about ANA and the sl positive test for scheroderm. If those are the only test positive,, you have to rule out what conditions these tests are positive for and then study the symptoms to see if match what your wife has. My mother has the same tests positive, the same type of pains,but she has diabetes, high cholesterol, triglicerides and has the fat infiltration in her liver.

[DigitalMan]

Massive Upper Abdominal Pain With No Other Symptoms Or Triggers

For two and a half years now my wife (now 34) has been having