Abdominal shooting pain and stomach pain.Cancer? Ulcer?

[Nitsuj242]

Hello there, I was wondering what people out there might think this could be. I'm very concerned and have been getting shooting pains all over my gut(intestinal area) all the way up to my upper chest. My whole torso also is feeling sore like in the muscles in the front to the ones in the back as well as stomach pain in the center that keeps coming and going. This is embarrassing but i'm noticing a lot of loose BM's that float and look like a reddish brown, to a lighter yellowish color, to even pale on top of it they smell alot stronger then they ever have as well as when I fart it smells alot stronger then it ever has. Now I do suffer from health anxiety and am known to jump to the worst case scenario possible but i'm thinking it's the big C in the pancreas.... i've had bloodwork done and he never called me back to tell me the results. Anyhow this has been going on for awhile and these pains are relatively new and that scares me as I also feel weak in my core. My over all physical symptoms and fear is consuming me. What else is there to do? abdominal ultrasound? P.S. I also put myself on an idiotic unsupervised 400 mg aspirin regime awhile back and got severely ill with an overdose of some type and was vomiting up blood sweating profusely and felt like i was literally dying due to taking it cuz I was worrying about a heart attack from the chest pains that I later found out my anxiety causes. (I swear I was probably almost there that night I was getting visions of heaven and a yellow brick road with trees and mansions) I survived though! :):):)  So could this actually be an ulcer I developed over time from the aspirin? Does it sound like the big c? I also failed to mention these CA like symptoms I am suffering from: weight loss(but i admit I haven't eaten more then one or two meals a day for awhile now,itchy skin(but have what seems to be allergies) ,temporary dark urine for a couple of days then it went away(dr.told me it was probably lack of water, my body/facial hair seems to be growing back alot faster then it ever has (yet I am getting older) So you see I've got alot of symptoms of it but no proof and i'm very scared with the pain I'm getting Please help...any advice would be awesome.

[mkh9]

See number 9. Floating stools. It may help.

http://www.enzymestuff.com/rtstools.htm

of course there may be better websites but it is a start.

mkh9

[mkh9]

Glad to hear you didn't have a heart attack and that I read it wrong. Sorry about the bad IV incident. I have had so many IV's that I only have one good blood drawing veing because they blew all the other ones. As for the eye thing. Do you get migraines or auras with a migriane? If not then I would see a opthamologist about it. I have a similar thing with a orange dot that zips across my vision in either eye. The optometrist said it was just a floater. But, I got vertigo a few times and two bouts of double vision. I get mgrianes with aura or aura and so because of all the visual stuff I went to a neurologist and she said I have a retinal migraine and gave me some meds to lower the frequency. I still get the orange light. So far not the other stuff. I'm seeing an opthamologist to double check that the retina is ok. I suggest you do the same thing. i don't think by your description, that the flashing lights are a hallucination rather than an eye or migraine problem. Is it flashing on and off or moving across the eye? Yeah, I do think by your symptoms you need to see a GI specialist who will check into malaborption and so forth. When do you get your results back? They may not have done a lipase and amylase, which is important. I double checked and looked it up and it is one thing you could have . In the meantime you need to get help for you pain. But then you don't want mask the symptoms you want to get the right treatment. Have you seen a GI specialist yet? Try not to worry too much. The way I see it is you can have a whole heck of a lot of pain and you won't die from that. You can live a long time and me in miserable pain. So, it doesn't have to be the big C. Have you had a gallbladder, liver kidney ultrasound? I am still standing with the malabsorption because the floating stools are a big sign of that. I'll send you a link you can read about. it.
mkh9

[Nitsuj242]

Hey there. Yes it does.Oh don't be sorry I didn't any heart attack. LuLs I was worried that I would. I'm frustrated. I was feeling like I was next to death so I had gone in to the E.R. lat night and they gave me an IV which the guy was nice but had no idea how to do it ripping it in my arm left and right until I felt like I was about to pass out from the pain he caused . Then they gave me a **** test..no biggie. So I've had extreme stomach pain and abdominal pain. I mention the key things I NEED to get checked. They did like the minimal and didn't even check my stomach itself out or my pancreas. They took bloodwork and gave me a chest and abdominal x-ray only of my intestinal area. The lungs and heart and intestines looked fine which is awesome. What about the stomach and pancreas and i'm sorry but forgot to mention your mal absorption.But  like two of the biggest possible culprits? So I left with having a diagnosis of what I came in with "abdominal pain" or a pain with no diagnosis! WTF? I'm almost certain it will all come back to as when I got home I got a sudden nasty sharp knife pain go down the ride side of my gut. They just temporarily helped it by injecting me with crap to help the stomach and insides not hurt as much.That ***** because it means i'm going to be still freaking out and wondering if it's terminal and have to go all the way back in to town and get back in to my primary physician  to checked out further=/ Yes the baby aspirin is ALOT safer. You're doing good. Haha same here i'm scared to aspirin any more to. Seriously I think I almost died that night from the OD of aspirin. =/ Hey this is new...can anxiety cause hallucinations? I've been seeing these weird flashes of blue lights in my eyes randomly and as of right now I keep seeing things in my periphril vision that aren't real.

[mkh9]

p.s. changes in diet, and GI infection can cause this too and perhaps you should try taking in some probiotics. They say that your intestinal bacteria can get off. Have you had diarrhea?
mkh9

[mkh9]

Glad to help. Hope it helps in directing your diagnosis or what to ask etc. Wow I'm so sorry to hear about the heart attack. It worries me because I get anxiety and have an arrythmia (just PAC's) but still it is scary. I think a baby aspirin (81mg and buffered) is ok but I'm still too scared to take them because of the bad incident.
Keep me posted as to how you are doing.
hugs,
mkh9

[Nitsuj242]

Thank you...yes i hate how I always jump to the worst case scenario. This pain has become increasingly worse today. I had blood work and asked him to specifically check my pancreas and white blood cell count when I first started having the pains about a week or two ago but have never got the results yet and will not be able to until the doc comes back into town. Don't they usually say no news is good news though? That if something were wrong they'd called alot quicker? So mal absorption syndrome. Yes the stools have been oddly colored from orangish brown to a yellowish brown to lighter in color like tan and loose/floating. Sorry to go into description but i'm very disturbed by this. Thank you for your advice and suggestion. On the aspirin. I was convinced that all the chest pain which I later began to learn was anxiety related was a heart attack. So in turn I began taking full dosaged aspirin with out knowing much about the bleeding problem and went through what you did...stomach bleeding...vomiting blood and coffee ground like grains of blood up. =/ No fun is it? =/  Again thank you for your advice and suggestion.

[Mura123]

My advice go to the hospital right away.   It will be no good From hiding under the blanket, and in the hospital they will tell u exactly what happened to u.  Then u will be able to decide what specialist u are looking for.  In the hospital they will do   all set of tests and the blood test too.  So, do not wait longer, go to get help now.  Good luck.