Can anyone give some insight?

Hi there.

I'm a 20 year old female living in Australia.

For the past 6 months I've had chronic colicky type pain in my abdomen that spreads. I also feel some large lumps in my abdomen where the pain is.

I've had a CT scan in September that showed nothing and an internal ultrasound that showed nothing.

I've had lots of pathology tests done and the only remarkable things are slightly above normal CRP levels that don't go down, extremely high insulin, high platelets, low Vitamin D and high dopamine (24 hour urine).

I'm in the process of waiting for another 24 hour urine result back as my doctor thinks I have a pheochromocytoma due to the high dopamine (at least 1000 nmol over than normal, can't remember exact amount)

My whole life (it seems) I've had on and off tummy pain but my most recent additional symptoms than abdominal pain are as follows: tachycardia, nausea, constipation/diarrhea, profuse sweating, headaches, randomly high BP, extreme fatigue (some days I can't even stay awake), not eating until the night time because not hungry, increased anxiety and increased depression, hot flushes.

Is anyone gone through the same thing? Is it even possible for me to have a pheochromocytoma if ct scan showed nothing 5 months ago?

I also have a history (since first surgery at 16) having having low oxygen saturation levels (lowest 88) after having anasthetic, tachycardia and high BP whilst under in all 3 of my surgeries (appendectomy, wisdom teeth removal and endoscopy/colonoscopy).

Thank you, I'm going out of my mind living like this!

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