I'm 22 and Stomach Pain makes me want to die, I don't know what to do. Neither does Doctor
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Hey so I just want to start by saying don't mind my grammar and rambling, and thank you in advance for taking the time to try and help me it really means a lot. So I've been having this severe stomach pain for over 2 years now. The pain started off not so bad and I've always hated going to the doctors because I always believed they were way to much money and never helped at finding problems other than obvious ones. Well after about 6 months of going thru the pain and trying to self medicate with weed I realized it wasn't getting better so I had to get Insurence which is way overpriced I pay $250 a month because they assume I make a decent living. But I live on my own with my Fiancé and 2 year old daughter who I love more than anything and really there the only thing keeping me fighting. Problem is I don't know what I'm fighting. Any time I sit/stand up my heart starts racing at about 125 bpm and then I get the worst stomach pain all over. When when I actually push on my stomach there's no pain except for the right side under rib . Any time I move the pain starts off at about a 5 then rises up to a 10 in a matter of 5 minutes and I just start throwing up for about 20 minutes and I just have to be in fetal position while sitting in so much pain for awhile until the pain starts going down again. Then I get back up and it starts all over and over. My dad owns a paving company so I used to labor, pain got so bad I couldn't do that so I started estimating. Driving around all day then measuring up a driveway for 10 minutes in the worst pain and having to manage for an hour to get pain relief just throwing up and sitting in my truck. I did this for about a year and a half just getting by, while going to the doctors it has been the worst years of my life when they should be my best. They first tested me for kidney stones now keep in mind every appointment is over a month -two month wait in Washington state (thanks obama for nothing) so while so when they first told me it had to be kidney stones I did a complete lifestyle change, drank a gallon of water a day ate everything healthy. A month later I had a CT, another week goes by and my primary Doctor (young new kid because every doctor is taken because everyone's forced to have Insurence) thinks it's still Kindney stones because there's was a tiny tiny tiny white dot in my kidney, another 2 weeks goes by while still drinking a gallon a day. I see a urologist who immediately dismisses me saying there is no way I have kidney stones and if I did they were so so small the amount of pain I was having would never match. So another month goes by doing blood tests / urine tests. All clear, another month goes by and they wanted me to cut out dairy and gluten. Now I'm in terrible pain every day trying to only only eat whole healthy foods. Pretty much gave me an eating disorder. I lost over 20 pounds. I was 6' 167 unfit then I got to 143 just changing my diet and throwing up so much because I was still working. Now times starting to really play an affect on my mind because I was still in pain for so long, my work performance decreased, my relationships all started taking big tolls on them because I couldn't go out and do anything. Including with my fiancé and daughter. I had an ultrasound done for my gallbladder and all was normal. They tested me for celiacs disease, they started trying out all sorts of pills for ibs / muscle spasms. Nothing worked, they would never give me pain pills or any relief because they said I was young and could get addicted. After all that it was probably another 3 months. They had me do a Colonoscopy and Endoscopy and everything came back normal. My Insurence lapsed for 2 months and they cancelled my Insurence which I've already paid 5000$ toward my premium and was really starting to get in debt. I also have a 2014 pickup I bought when i was healthy making money, so money is really starting to take a toll on me. Doctor bill after Doctor bill coming in the mail. My Insurence was lapsed for 2 months and wasn't able to re sign up with them until ObamaCare re opened. I then had about a month worth of doctor bills with no Insurence help what so ever. I got Insurence again but this time with a different company and tried going to the hospital in the richest city in Washington hoping for better doctors. When I got there they were convinced I had anxiety because I had all tests done. Makes sense after living in pain for so long that's all I think about, everything I do revolves around my pain. They had me see a phycologist and psychiatrist. I started meditating and doing yoga which was really hard for me and still is and no relief. The put me on Zolof for a month for anxiety / depression , and didn't work, they tried just giving me hydroxyzine which just made me sleep. They tried amitriptyline for a month and didn't work. I tried muscle relaxers Cyclobenzaprine and nothing. I tried Dicyclomine Ibs for month and nothing. I tried Nortiptyline ibs/functional dyspepsia for a month and nothing. I've tried taking multi vitamins, magnesium, iron, b12, all sorts. They tried Ondansetron for nausea and nothing. I gave up on work about a month ago because I was getting very very depressed just being in pain so much. So now I just sit in bed pretty much all day which takes the pain away a little but even brushing my teeth or getting food just gets me so sick. I went to the doctors and told them to give me a HIDA scan which the Doctor didn't think was the problem but we did it anyways and came back normal. I tried taking a trigger point injection shot in my side and nothing. The Doctor put me on Librax hoping it is Functional Dyspepsia which is $400 for a month and nothing. I had enough and kind of forced my primary to give me pain meds after they sent me to two different pain management clinics and no help. They gave me 5-325mg Hydrocd - Aceta and it barley helps but the catch with this is the Doctor made me take a drug test and said I can't smoke weed which is the tiny bit of relief I get. I took for about a week 4 a day and helped I could walk around and do things. They don't work any more I think I'm building tolerance and my pain is just so bad. So i just stopped taking them and now I'm not taking anything except I'm smoking here and there again so watch the Doctor not want to give me any other pain meds. But I see not point in getting on pain pills if there not strong enough. Oh and I also tried quitting weed for over 2 months to see if it might be Cannabanoid Hyperemisis and nothing. I just can't function any more I'm about to lose my house, truck , credit . probably my fiancé because I don't see how anyone can put up with a sick person for as long as she had and she has helped me so much I see it's taking a huge toll on her and my mom and my brothers. Waiting day by day for the doctors to figure something out. Anyone have any ideas I'm completely out and I'm really in need of help. Thank you to whoever read this, it's like a book
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lilian05079 Tboulanger12
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Wow! you are going through some trauma....can you pinpoint when the pain starts?....its a longshot but maybe if you keep a food diary noting what you eat and when you eat it such as: date- time - food you ate and what you drink... do this throughout the day and every day to try and pinpoint when the pain starts. A pattern may form and the pain could be caused by certain foods or drinks. Its worth a try just incase its certain foods causing your pain. Also, do you have any other symptoms with the pain such as acid reflux or heartburn....and are your bowels normal?...do you get diahorria?...have you been tested for gastritis...you say you have had an endoscopy..did they test for HPylori a stomach bacteria that can cause dreadful pain it also causes acid reflux and heartburn.....have you been tested for a hiatus hernia?....another thing that causes dreadful pain......if you haven't had any of these tests i suggest you go back to your doc and ask him/her if you've been tested... and if not get tested for them......best wishes.....for a speedy diagnosis....
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lilian05079 Tboulanger12
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Keep us posted....hope you can get an answer..where theres pain theres something abnormal....pain does not occur for no reason..surely the docs recognise this fact....hope you can get to the bottom of your pain.....with you all the way...
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lilian05079 Tboulanger12
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So doc must think the pain due to anxiety..ativan is a medication for anxiety...did you ask about hiatus hernia?..hope the ativan works for you and the pain.....time will tell...best wishes..
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That's what the doc told my grandad he didn't think it was a hiatus hernia...and he suffered for many years with excrutiating pain then one day he was taken into hospital with immense pain after several tests was diagnosed with hiatus hernia....I think your doc should have got uyou tested for h.hernia. ..these days they just want to get you out of the surgery with a script...and onto the next suffering patient...anyway let us know how you get on with the ativan.....ciao..
lilian05079 Tboulanger12
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The reason I mention hiatus hernia is because of your previous job of labouring and I would say involved lifting and carrying heavy paving stones etc., because h.hernia is caused through strain and lifting heavy objects in some cases....just thought i'd mention this......see how you get on with the ativan...ciao for now......
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