intestinal pain and nausea, malaise for a month? docs useless! - Bowel Disorders Message Board

merme · 01-09-2008, 04:51 PM

i hope someone might be able to shed some light on my problem as i have been to the ER four times now and still no answers.
I have a dull aching sore feeling in my intestines. ,mainly lower right side but sometimes all over and it comes and goes.
I am waking up every morning with severe nausea and retching , and a feeling which i can only describe as waves of a sickly feeling flowing through all my body which also makes my arms feel weird inside, like they dont work properly or are numb. body feels achey all over.
I have had this for more than a month now and am unable to work or do anything as i feel so ill generally..but is especially bad in the mornings and i get woken up by the sickly feeling. it seems to be bad when i need a bowel movement and also after i have had one for a few hours.
Have completely lost appetite and having to force food down, lost a lot of weight.
have on and off symptoms such as lots of gas in intestines and bowel movements vary between loose and diarrhea and are slightly yellowish.
Im pretty desperate for an answer and cant see a gastroenterologist for another two weeks.
the intestinal pain i can somehow get by with , but the sick nauseous feeling and the weird numb and aching arms and malaise is so awful every morning that i cant get up til after midday. i feel weak and sometimes feel strange in the head like i cant wake up properly which seems to stem from the sore feeling in the intestines.
can anyone help?
is this a virus, a parasite? intestinal inflammation? blood work was normal , not showing elevated white count and no fever.
please help!! im getting desperate !!

sophie2007 · 01-12-2008, 07:24 PM

I see you posted this message three days ago and am wondering how you are feeling. I had the same symptoms for several months until they removed my gallbladder in June after an ultrasound showed sludge and debris in my gallbladder. Some say that yellowish, loose stools could be a bile leak. It's been a long recovery because I was ill for several months before the surgery. Have you had your gallbladder checked? Good luck, Soph

merme · 01-13-2008, 02:36 PM

Hi there, thanks soo much for your reply. Could yu give me some more detailed info about how your symptoms were? i had an ultrasound 6 weeks ago when it first started and they said looks ok but obviously im not. still unable to get out obed most of the day as feeling so sickly and ill. the sickness radiates through whole body and its debilitating .
did your blood tests show anything? were you diagnosed by ultrasound n the end?
thanks so much. your reply is so helpful i really appreciate it.

sophie2007 · 01-14-2008, 06:08 AM

The first ultrasound wasn't conclusive. They said that there were no stones, but couldn't tell if there was anything else. Of course, I was living in Glasgow, Scotland and the heatlhcare within National Health System is pretty bad. After getting back to America I had every digestive test done and still there was no evidence of infection, blockage, or parasite. And my blood tests did not show anything.I had the same symptoms as you along with high tachycardia. Then they did another ultrasound and found that my gallbladder was full of sludge and debris and that the debris probably had bugs in it that were making me sick. I had the GB removed June 14th. I am still not 100% but am much, much better than before. Your GI specialist will probably order a lot of tests for you, and help you with medications to ease this discomfort. I know exactly how you are feeling. Hang in there. They will find an answer. Sophie

jopa · 01-14-2008, 09:08 PM

Hi Merme,
I stumbled across your post tonight. It is interesting because I have many of your symptoms. Mine started 1 1/2 years ago with weird head pain, facial numbness, and tingling in arms and legs. It felt like my head was going to explode or that I was going to have a stroke. Had CT, MRI, etc. all neg. About a month ago I started getting weird gas pains and bloating. My bowel movements have all been loose in that time. I have never has this problem before. It's almost like IBS. I also have a dull almost constant pain in my right upper abdomen. Aside from the GI problems, I can relate to your brain fog, and weird arm/leg pain. Unfortunately I don't have an answer for you because the Dr.s don't have one for me. I believed it was Lyme's, but 2 tests were neg. Although many people test neg. with the basic test and then test positive with a more advanced test from an infectious disease dr. I haven't followed up with another dr. as I just live with it. My advice would be to possibly go to an infectiouse disease dr. for a Lyme's test. Don't try with your primary as they will only give you the basic test anyway. Good luck!