High liver enzymes, chest pain and gallbladder sludge?

Hello, I'm using this as a last resort because hospitals don't seem to be helping me at all. I am a 21 year-old, white, female living in the UK. Medications I take daily are propranolol and sertraline for depression and anxiety. In 2016, I was admitted to hospital for a week due to severe vomiting, diarrhoea and back pain radiating in my chest. As I was there I spiked a high temp and was given bloods, a CT scan and other forms of tests. My doctor found a cyst on my ovary but other than that he could not conclude what was wrong with me. He did bloods, and my liver enzymes were fairly high GGT - 291 (normal: 10-53) and ALT - 123 (normal: 10-50). The weekend came and there was strikes for doctors so unless you were severely poorly he said, you were discharged and since I was undergoing investigation and he couldn't seem to work out what was wrong because they ruled out tummy bugs etc he thought it was a kidney infection perhaps, and I was sent off under his care in outpatients. He sent me to a gynaecologist, sent me for a colonoscopy and an ultrasound. The ultrasound showed 'grit' in my gallbladder he said not a whole lot, but I might be prone to gallstones in middle-aged life. Fast-forward a year, in June 2017 I started with a terrible pain in my chest in the middle of the night. I was awoken at 3am and it radiated into my back and was in the centre and towards the right-hand side. I put it down to stress because I have anxiety and waited until the pain had stopped which was about 8am. I later returned to uni thinking it was a one-off. It kept occurring sporadically for the next few months, the same pain in the middle of the night and lasting 5 hours or more. It felt like a crushing pain and I would become breathless. I went to my GP at home and she thought at first it was stress, I then went back at a later date (few months) and she thought it might be acid-reflux so gave me omeprazole. I took this but chest pains still occurred randomly in the night. At a later date, she suggested it could be costochondritis but still presumed it was acid. Anyhow, exam time came around in 2018, and I had a really bad one - worse than any before and it lasted throughout the next day which doesn't usually happen, it's normally sore as though I've been punched and there's a bruise, but it was the same pain that I have in the night. So, I decided enough was enough and my boyfriend was concerned so I rang 111 for advice. They wanted to send an ambulance out but I refused due to a passed incident where an ambulance was called through 111 and I got into trouble by the uni because apparently you should contact the porters first. So, they got a Doctor to call me back and he said go to the nearby Drs in the morning and it's most likely stress. I then, went to sleep still in pain but was awoken at 2am with the most excruciating chest pain. I couldn't breath properly and was rolling around in pain. I felt so nauseated (which I usually do) so my boyfriend took me to A+E. By the time I got to see a nurse it was starting to calm down (it starts just really bad, and then starts to very slowly calm throughout the night). She took an ECG - nothing. And bloods showed a high D-Dimer which I have Factor V Leiden (makes you more prone to blood clots) so they wanted to rule out a possible Pulmonary Embolism, which they did. I was then discharged with an unknown cause, yet again. I went back to uni and my Mum begged me to go home, I refused because of my exams. The next day, I got them again (in the day this time) and my boyfriend rang my Mum which she picked me up and took me to A+E. After a 6 hour wait, it was starting to wear off. The doctor wanted to rule out a PE again, which they did. They told me that it was possibly costochondritis and that I should take paracetamol all the time to keep on top of it and to double omeprazole which I did. Btw, the omeprazole has not helped in the slightest with these pains. The next day, I went to see my GP because I was fed up of getting nowhere with the hospital. She recommended more bloods and gave me some codeine. The bloods came back with a high GGT, ALT and C-Protein - she wanted me to have an ultrasound of my gallbladder and liver. I didn't ask for the numbers because it was telephone consultation and it slipped my mind. I had the scan and it showed that my gallbladder was jam packed full of sludge which was the grit my consultant referred to in 2016. My doctor suggested I should have the gallbladder removed and referred me to a gallbladder specialist. Before this, though (I've forgot to say) I've hardly had an appetite, not ate much at all, and have been having a lot of joint pains and extreme fatigue and nausea. A couple weeks later, and the consultation came around and he was awful. He made feel so uncomfortable, he was very rude. He decided to send me for an MRI and GI endoscopy (camera down the throat). But he seemed a lot more concerned with the liver than the gallbladder which I didn't understand due to my GP being a lot more concerned with the gallbladder. He wondered if I had a blockage in my bile duct as well. So, on the 28.06 I was ill again with the chest pains, breathlessness and nausea including dizziness and abdominal pain. My mum called 111 for advice and stressed it's not cardiac related and biliary tract related though the operator didn't take that on-board and sent an ambulance. After an hour and half they arrived. The paramedics were wonderful and rang a Doctor to ask for advice because they knew if I was sent to A+E they'd do the same they've done before and just throw me out with out any conclusion. They suggested I visit my GP and take more codeine. On a side-note I also have a rash I've had since all of this happened, it only appears on my feet and hands when I saw a dermatologist she wrote I was self-harming, which I am not. It's like a blister and is wet and then scabs over they sort of look like burns. Anyways, the paramedics believed that could be to do with the gallbladder and I was surprised my GP or Drs haven't made this conclusion before. I went to my GP the next day (29.06) and I finally asked my bloods for the liver enzymes: GGT - 436 and ALT - 200 which obviously have elevated since 2016 and I didn't realise they were so high. Apparently, GGT (when I've googled it) is in relation to alcohol and I literally don't drink a drop (it's not my thing). So, she suggested just to ring the specialists secretary and ask for the MRI date (which I have and they don't know when it'll be) because I've got my deferred exams in August. And I'm not well enough at the moment to be revising. So that's the end of my story, I'm still have no conclusion as to what I've got and feel at a loss. I just want an answer and some help so I thought someone might have had a similar experience or know what I can do to help myself? (I have had this chest pain/attack over 15-20 times in the past 12 months) 

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