A nervous wreck and fed up

Firstly.....Happy New Year to you all.

I don't even know where to start as to what health complaints I have sigh

Brief background is that I have:

*Type 2 Diabetes (genetic tests confirm) very well managed so much so that blood tests would suggest I'm not.

*PCOS

*Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver

All three are related unfortunately.

Suffer with constipation since the birth of our youngest in December 2019. It's on and off constipated one minute the next it's literally like water. Sometimes I wake with a diarrhoea type cramp and boy do i have to go, and do go!

So the GP said I had IBS.

I've also not felt well on and off since having our youngest, just weak and flu like (that's the only way I can describe it). So.... my GP said I had either fibromyalgia or ME.

I've been fine and I've been doing a keto/low carb lifestyle for 3 months and ive lost 2 stone. I have been off it for a month as I got married and Christmas, but i shall be back on it soon hopefully. During this time stools were loose and a dash was needed, but i was eating lots of protein, cheese and veg. I had a terrible cold the first week of December (not covid) but it was awful and left me feeling very ill. Skip forwards to 22nd December I had my covid booster, come the 24th i felt fluy but I had an ache in my right side/flank very slightly. 25th I disnt feel great but plodded on. 26th I woke up in a cold sweat, had chills, and a slight temperature to which I put it down to the booster, however I really did have right flank pain. I decided to dip my urine out of curiosity and showed I had blood in my urine. I spoke with a 111 practitioner and they said I should be seen in out of hours.

Out of hours...... no examination, but took my temp (slightly high) and pulse. Dipped my urine and it showed blood and leukocytes this time. She said it was a classic uti symptoms and there was an infection. I queried this as I had no burning when I weed, no urgency to go, no cloudy urine, no odour etc. She said I had probably had it a few days and not realised. I asked what the right flank pain was and she said it could be going to my kidney. 3 day course of antibiotics normally but gave me 7. Advised if no better or worse to contact gp.

I had been on them 3 days and no better, felt like i had been thumped in the back. Contact my gp who wouldn't see me and told me to go to a&e which I did.

They checked my urine which was completely clear, ran bloods (no idea what) and I had a ct scan, again all were clear.

The a&e doctor said inflammatory marker was slightly slightly raised but he wasn't concerned. He said if there was an infection it could be that that was causing the pain.

So although it was good to hear things were clear I am still worried as no idea what this pain/discomfort is.

Prior to this episode (since xmas eve) I had an MRI scan on the 19th December (for back problems) and found out I have DDD which can and does cause lower back, hip and leg pain.

Is all of this to do with my back ? I am now worried, is it my liver or is it something else.

I had a whole range of bloods in November which were all clear and good etc.

The last 2 days my stomach has been so noisy... like really bad. I am constipated (like marbles) 1 piece of stools had mucus on which again i have and get but this had some blood within / on it, which wasn't dark. It was a one off and I've not seen anymore since.

I am now worried.

I am doing a stool sample and having bloods done, as I sent a message to my gp today to say about the noisy tummy and is it anything to sorry about etc. They literally just said we can do a sample and bloods.

This niggle/pain/discomfort on my right flank has literally come out of nowhere.

I don't know what i want any of you fine people to say really, perhaps I am here just to vent, or reassurance to find out if anyone else has had this it experienced similar.

Do those with IBS have constipation then loose like water ? Randomly out of the blue, no rhyme or reason to it? Do you have mucus on your stools ?

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