Hi I k guess ill start at the begining... on the 12th feb i had a diagnostic laproscopy for suspected endometriosis (i dnt get the results till 15th april so i presume nothing was found) since then i have been unable to keep anything solid down and i am also having trouble going the toilet. After 10 days of keeping no food down nor passing a bowel movment i went to a&e as i had serve abdominal pain that occupanied these symptoms. When they xrayd me they found that my colon was completly blocked and came to the conclusion that maybe my body was rejecting food as it had nowhere to go or sumthing along those lines, anyway i was kept in with the view of being given 2 enimas and being sent home the next day.
When i had the enima i got severe stomach cramps felt like i wanted to throw up, felt dizzy and like i wanted to pass out, when i told the nurses they said this was not the normal reaction and therefore was not gien the 2nd enima and put on extra laxitives instead. I ended up been kept in for 5 nights during which i had a cat scan, blood tests, water tests all came bk clear, (there was a small amount of gas in my lower right hand side still left in my body from the lap) as i started going the toilet my abdomial pains went, and they told me if i manged to eat and keep it down i cud go home, i managed a few table spoons of soup every hour and this was good enough for them.
once i returned home i slwly built up my torrelence to bleneded food, while still feeling sick after eating it i was managing to avoid throwing up, i just had lots of burping and reching. However, i was still unable to eat solid food, and i was going the toilet 3 times a day thanx to the laxitive drinks the hospital gave me.
Now 5 or so weeks on the laxitive drinks have stopped working, and a few days ago i was sick for 2 consecutive days after i ate anything even if it was blended. While i have been ok the last few days keeping things like porrige down i am still concerned about what it wrong with me. My doctor is completly lost as to what it may be, and has started asking questions like cud sum1 b posioning me or i am bulemic, so i am really starting to feel like i am losing the plot, so if anyone has any idea what i cud be suffering from plz plz tell me.
Some additional infomation i am 22, healthy, i am not preganat i have lost a stone and a half since the 11th feb, i am in my thrid year of uni training to be a primary school teacher and this is impacting heavly on that to. I just need to get this sorted but i am completly lost as what it cud be. If i have babbled i am sorry and if you need to knw nemur info plz ask.
Thank you for taking the time to read this
Danielle
When i had the enima i got severe stomach cramps felt like i wanted to throw up, felt dizzy and like i wanted to pass out, when i told the nurses they said this was not the normal reaction and therefore was not gien the 2nd enima and put on extra laxitives instead. I ended up been kept in for 5 nights during which i had a cat scan, blood tests, water tests all came bk clear, (there was a small amount of gas in my lower right hand side still left in my body from the lap) as i started going the toilet my abdomial pains went, and they told me if i manged to eat and keep it down i cud go home, i managed a few table spoons of soup every hour and this was good enough for them.
once i returned home i slwly built up my torrelence to bleneded food, while still feeling sick after eating it i was managing to avoid throwing up, i just had lots of burping and reching. However, i was still unable to eat solid food, and i was going the toilet 3 times a day thanx to the laxitive drinks the hospital gave me.
Now 5 or so weeks on the laxitive drinks have stopped working, and a few days ago i was sick for 2 consecutive days after i ate anything even if it was blended. While i have been ok the last few days keeping things like porrige down i am still concerned about what it wrong with me. My doctor is completly lost as to what it may be, and has started asking questions like cud sum1 b posioning me or i am bulemic, so i am really starting to feel like i am losing the plot, so if anyone has any idea what i cud be suffering from plz plz tell me.
Some additional infomation i am 22, healthy, i am not preganat i have lost a stone and a half since the 11th feb, i am in my thrid year of uni training to be a primary school teacher and this is impacting heavly on that to. I just need to get this sorted but i am completly lost as what it cud be. If i have babbled i am sorry and if you need to knw nemur info plz ask.
Thank you for taking the time to read this
Danielle
You may have irritable bowel syndrome. Ovarian cancer also may exhibit many of these symptoms.
I have only just recently had 2 smears doen so i think and hopfully i am right (touch wood) ovarian Cancer is ruled out. IBS is a possibilty it just with it cumming on immediatly after my lap i was thinking it was some how related, as i have never had any problems like this b4. BTW some extra information is that they think my colon was blocked due to all the cocodomol i had been taking for the abdominal pain i was expeiencing b4 and after the lap.
I would just like to say thank you for replying, I am in the UK and its 1.15am here and i am just sittin up waiting for replys, i honestly feel completly on my own with this as my doctor is completly rubbish and just to know sumone out there is listening and trying to help makes me feel like there is hope lol!
Thanx again
Danielle
I would just like to say thank you for replying, I am in the UK and its 1.15am here and i am just sittin up waiting for replys, i honestly feel completly on my own with this as my doctor is completly rubbish and just to know sumone out there is listening and trying to help makes me feel like there is hope lol!
Thanx again
Danielle
I have just read that Ovarian Cancer isnt detected by smear, But am hoping due to the fact i had a lap and they where looking at my ovarys that if anything was there they would of found it
I agree.
I tried to post this on another topic, but I'll also post here:
Please, anyone with undiagnosed symptoms of stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., ask a doctor to be tested for carcinoid. It's a rare but slow-growing and treatable type of cancer that doctors often miss because they learned so little about it in med school. A relative of mine went years being diagnosed with irritable bowel, gallbladder (even having it removed)--you name it and she supposedly had it, but incorrectly. It was even implied by a few doctors that it was all in her head and she was given antidepressants. She went from weighing 130 lbs. to 85 lbs. at diagnosis, which was incidental finding in the liver on a CT scan (after previously having CT scan and nearly every other test known come back negative). By then, it had spread to the liver where it's harder to treat and control. People diagnosed early can live decades with treatment with a drug called Sandostatin, a monthly injection. The test for this is so very simple, a 24-hour urine collection called 5HIAA. Not one doctor my relative saw (and she saw many) thought to test for this. Her family doc said after the fact that if he'd only thought of carcinoid, he could've given the test. Yes, if only (and we thought that was a doctor's job).
I urge all to be proactive and continue to seek answers until you are certain. My relative passed away and really should not have, as carcinoid caught in time should not be a death sentence. It's what I like to say a Cadillac of cancers, as it can be controlled (look it up or find a carcinoid specialist for answers). It is only my hope to help others avoid suffering as she did. She went over 8 years with severe pain, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., basically not really living her life, before being diagnosed and this is a VERY COMMON story told by people with carcinoid. She wanted to eat but couldn't keep anything down and ultimately became fearful of eating. We tried to make connections with certain foods (and there seemed to be some that affected it more than others) but in the long run, it was just the tumors in the intestine would sometimes cause a blockage as the bowels twisted and turned, so there was no real "connection" to certain foods, just coincidence as the bowels moved about. The symptoms mimic so very many other illnesses, food allergies, and the like that it is nearly impossible to nail down a diagnosis. I am merely presenting another possible piece of the puzzle to either eliminate or solve.
Keep going until you find that doctor who listens and helps and PLEASE ask about carcinoid. It's my feeling that this may not, in fact, be such a rare disease, as they claim, but one that is commonly mis- or undiagnosed instead. I imagine there could be many out there living with it yet undiagnosed because it's not recognized by many physicians, in constant suffering as my relative was and desperate for answers. I know my relative would be looking down with pride if just one person is helped by this information.
Please, anyone with undiagnosed symptoms of stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., ask a doctor to be tested for carcinoid. It's a rare but slow-growing and treatable type of cancer that doctors often miss because they learned so little about it in med school. A relative of mine went years being diagnosed with irritable bowel, gallbladder (even having it removed)--you name it and she supposedly had it, but incorrectly. It was even implied by a few doctors that it was all in her head and she was given antidepressants. She went from weighing 130 lbs. to 85 lbs. at diagnosis, which was incidental finding in the liver on a CT scan (after previously having CT scan and nearly every other test known come back negative). By then, it had spread to the liver where it's harder to treat and control. People diagnosed early can live decades with treatment with a drug called Sandostatin, a monthly injection. The test for this is so very simple, a 24-hour urine collection called 5HIAA. Not one doctor my relative saw (and she saw many) thought to test for this. Her family doc said after the fact that if he'd only thought of carcinoid, he could've given the test. Yes, if only (and we thought that was a doctor's job).
I urge all to be proactive and continue to seek answers until you are certain. My relative passed away and really should not have, as carcinoid caught in time should not be a death sentence. It's what I like to say a Cadillac of cancers, as it can be controlled (look it up or find a carcinoid specialist for answers). It is only my hope to help others avoid suffering as she did. She went over 8 years with severe pain, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., basically not really living her life, before being diagnosed and this is a VERY COMMON story told by people with carcinoid. She wanted to eat but couldn't keep anything down and ultimately became fearful of eating. We tried to make connections with certain foods (and there seemed to be some that affected it more than others) but in the long run, it was just the tumors in the intestine would sometimes cause a blockage as the bowels twisted and turned, so there was no real "connection" to certain foods, just coincidence as the bowels moved about. The symptoms mimic so very many other illnesses, food allergies, and the like that it is nearly impossible to nail down a diagnosis. I am merely presenting another possible piece of the puzzle to either eliminate or solve.
Keep going until you find that doctor who listens and helps and PLEASE ask about carcinoid. It's my feeling that this may not, in fact, be such a rare disease, as they claim, but one that is commonly mis- or undiagnosed instead. I imagine there could be many out there living with it yet undiagnosed because it's not recognized by many physicians, in constant suffering as my relative was and desperate for answers. I know my relative would be looking down with pride if just one person is helped by this information.
Thank you for your valuable information. I learned something new today.