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kelty3 · 08-08-2006, 08:10 PM

I am Kelty3. I have listed a previous question on sphincter of oddi and whether or not anyone thought i could have it. Now I am begging for help. A few nights ago I went to a movie and afterwards on the way to pick up my son my pains that i get in my back and upper abdominals started to increase. It got to the point where I was in tears so my husband took me to the ER. I told the nurse and doctor about my problems and my recent gall bladder removal. They took my blood samples and did an x-ray or my chest and side to see if any of my organs were inflamed. Everything came out normal. During this however, although my pain had subsided quite a bit since I arrived they did decide to give me some morphine. About 5-10 minutes after the morphine injection my pain came back tenfold. It would get extremely bad to the point where I was trying to move anyway to get some relief but nothing worked. Then it would fade to almost nothing and in another 5 minutes would come back tenfold again. This repeated until the doctor came in and tried to calm me down (I was in tears and clenching my bedrail) and he decided to give me an anti-nausea medicine via my IV that evidently acts as an anti-spasm medicine also. He says he believes I have a bilary duct spasm (or something like that). Does anyone have an opinion? I'm 27 yrs old. Should I consider it could somehow be chronic pancreatitis or does a spasm sound right? Please give your opinions! I'm losing my mind with this!

sammybelle · 08-09-2006, 01:01 PM

Kelty3, i am so sorry to hear about what you are going through. Your pains sound very similar to what i suffer with. I have been diagnosed with H. pylori, which apparantley isn't too serious (says the doctor). however I feel like i am dying wehn i have one of my "episodes".

I can't answer your question because i don't even REALLY know what is wrong with me. I was wondering if you could shine some light on my story. i suffer from extreme back and chest/abdominal pains. Mostly on my left side and center chest. However, it is under my breasts and all over my back! The pains are not constant, they occur pretty sporatically and last anywhere form 30 min-4 hours. i am not sure if I totally agree with my doctors diagnosis. Does this sound the same as the type of pain you had?

kelty3 · 08-09-2006, 01:18 PM

they do sound somewhat the same. Most of my pain seems to be on the right now though...although it does tend to spread through the entire back when i have an episode. i have been tested for h-pylori and it was negative. I am so confused and I know that my GI is talking to IU trying to get my appt. bumped up. This is a good thing because I don't know if I can wait until Sept. I assume that h-pylori can cause some of these symptoms since they tested me for it but have you ever had to go to the er for an attack? I've only gone one time with as severe of pain as I had before. Have they given you any other tests or just h-pylori? Does eating make it worse? Sometimes, certain foods will make me hurt worse. I want to help but I don't even know how to help me

hopefully we can try and help eachother as best as possible. Are they treating you for the h-pylori and have the symptoms improved at all?

crampster · 08-09-2006, 01:29 PM

Gallbladder information can give you severe pain at times and the pain is mostly on the right side but can go around to the back and sometimes from right abdomen bottom of ribcage and up to the right shoulder. Unfortunately they can not always tell it is inflammation. I went through the tests and all came back normal. I had trouble if I ate and even if I didn't eat.

I wish you the best and hang in there. I have found a heating pad or hot water bottle can be soothing. Sitting seems to make the inflammation worse.
Crampster

sammybelle · 08-09-2006, 02:16 PM

kelty3,

They have began treating me for the h. pylori and i had 2 "episodes" or attacks after I began the medication. I haven't had any since last week. But to me that doesn't say a whole lot because i have had the problem for 5 years having an attack about every 6 months. So i am not convinced I am cureed. and to be honest the side effects of the meds are horrible, and they affect me every day. eating has some effect...maybe. i almost can't tell. My pain occurs mostly in the evening or middle of the night. And I use the word "mostly" delicately. in can happen whenever, but i have not pinpointed it to when i eat or what I eat.

i have gone to the ER once and by the time I got there the pain had passed, they siad it was anxiety, but no tests of any sort were done. I feel like I need to go to the ER when it happens, it feels a lot like how i imagine a heart attack to be. The difference between us is the right and left side. The right being indicative of a gall bladder problem, the left the stomach. But my pain is so high up...I don't know what is wrong with me. Now, due to the meds, I have become nauseaus, light headed, fatigued, and increased bowel movements have caused hemeroids.

i am beginning to feel likean old lady, and I am only 25! Something has got to change. i hope you get to feeliong better. Let me know how you are doing.