Enlarged spleen and other problems..Please help
I am a 27-year-old male with recent health problems that I cannot explain. First of all, I have been a smoker for 6 years now, until 3 weeks ago whereas I have been on the Nicoderm patch for 3 weeks. I have also had GERD for a couple years and have been recently taking Protonox and clidinium, which has helped a lot.
Now my problem. I have had an enlarged spleen for the past two years and three doctors have not been able to explain it. The spleen has been giving me sharp pains when I sit. Sometimes the left side of my body also hurts, right next to my spleen and also when I sit. That pain sometimes pops up in my back as well and at times my lower left side of my stomach, I think it’s my kidney. I have been having constipation for several months now and sometimes-smelly urine. I have also had enlarged lymph nodes on the left side of my neck for the last year– 3 of them that are painless and not that big. Four specialists said the lymph’s are not beligned, and one doctor verified that with a CAT scan of my neck(with Contrast).
I have had two cat scans of my stomach with no clarification from my doctor. I had an endoscopy done 2 months ago and my doctor said I had an enlarged spleen(not a surprise) and a little fat in my liver. I have since then stopped smoking, taken medication and eat right, but I still have the same problems except for the GERD. I am scheduled to go for another Cat Scan and then a colonoscopy. My friends say I am too young for a colonoscopy and my doctor said that if those tests show nothing then he recommends me going to a Hematologist(my doctor is a Gastroenterologist).
I have also had a dislocated left rib cage for years which gets put into place once a year and I dislocated my left shoulder twice, whereas my orthopedist wants me to go for an MRI.
I need help, I am only 27 and do not know why I am having these problems. Could it be my smoking? GERD? Shoulder blade maybe out of place?
And BTW a couple years ago I had a really high fever and some kind of virus that looked like Mono, but when I went to the ER they said it was not mono…My internal medicine physician also confirmed that it was not mono, but it was a bad virus. I could not swallow food at one point and had to go to the ER.
I have no idea what the problem is….Please Help
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