Hello. My story is a long one, but I think you need the full story to help, so please bear with me:
On June 9 of this year I had some food that tasted bad (pork tenderloin - it was the stuffing - which tasted like vomit!). That evening after dinner I had a terrible stomach ache, unlike one I've ever had before. It just felt like there was something really sour, like bad milk, in my stomach. The next day I had a bit less stomach pain but I had right sided abdominal pain and strange gurgling, as if some sort of reaction was going on. So I went to the hospital thinking appendicitis, and they sent me home as my white blood cells were slightly up, but not skyrocketing.
For the next week, I felt nothing more specific than a nasty recurring stomach ache and slight constipation, especially after I ate significant amounts. So I stopped eating, and within a few days I felt pretty awful, like there was hot/poisonous liquid swirling around in my gut. The next week, six days after the first stomach ache, I came down with a fever.
The fever subsided quickly (one to two days of bed rest) and within a few days my stomach relaxed enough to let me eat again. The constipation continued and got worse, to the point where I would not have any stools unless I ate "all bran" in the morning. When I did have stools, they weren't liquid, but they were so loose that they would often fall apart when landing in the toilet. I was also having abdominal pain, which I was starting to recognize as intestinal (sometimes my bowels were so bloated or inflated that I couldn't lie on my side).
Several weeks later, I started to have persistent heartburn. Having never had this, I made my first of many trips to the emergency room, where the doctor "diagnosed" me with gastritis and prescribed me on Pariet. After the full course of this drug, the heartburn cleared up, although I still experienced burning pain under my ribs. At this point my abdominal pain got worse, one night it felt like my stomach was convulsing. Again I went to the hospital, I was "diagnosed" with IBS and given Dicetel, which I took for several months.
The Dicetel seemed to help things calm down from that extreme, as my gut was so "irritable" I was having trouble getting food down. Even on this drug, however, I still experienced burning pain, throbbing pain, stinging pain and continually abnormal/strange movements, including some very loose ones and some dark, hard pellets. I have also noticed that my gas NEVER smells when I flatulate (since I ate that food, which is not normal for me), and my stools hardly smell at all, although if I smell close to the bowl I've sometimes noticed what I would call a "fishy" smell. It also seems like my stools are a little pale/clayish sometimes.
During these three months, I have had a blood test, urinalysis, stool O & P and culture (twice), upper GI swallow and ultrasound, all of which were normal. Could this be a parasite like amebiasis that often doesn't show up?