Severe Upper Abdominal Pain.....

[rose2bee]

I have been having pain for going on a little over 2 months now... It is a little weird though... It is mainly in the center just below my rib cage... but it radiates to both the left and right side...The pain only accures about 15 minutes after eating (when I mean eating I mean eating a decent amount of food. Not too much and not too little, right about when your about to feel full). The pain feels like pressure and a major ache...I also have been having diarreha, and very nauseated. Now the kicker to all this is that I had my gall bladder taken out Feb 2005. I went to the E.R., I had blood tests and a Cat scan, and they said my white blood cells were a little high so they put me on anitbiotics (2 to be exact; Flagyl & Cipro), other than that they could not find the cause for my pain. 4 days after going to the E.R., I went to my primary physician about this.... He said he thought it might be C. difficile (I had been on antibotic about a month or so ago for UTI). So anyway my primary physician put me on 2 anitbiotics (Flagyl & Vancocin these primarily take care of C. difficile). I called my doc oncall a couple of days later and told him I can not take the pain that it really hurts after I eat and I had actually gotten myself to only eating a snack during the day wich would give me pain but it was tollerable, but when I ate at night it would be agonizing. He told me to go to the E.R. after spending 4 hours in the waiting room I finally got to the back and they did blood test and X-Ray (did not want to do a Cat Scan since I had just had one a wekk prior). Well once again they could not find anything, they called my primary Physician and he told them to admit me. I was put on a clear liquid diet with no lactose. It about killed me!! I was in for 3 days total, I had a Gastroscope & Endoscopy, and once again they could not find anything. Now during the time I was in the hospital I had alittle pain but the only thing I was eating was chicken broth, jello, juice; mainly things you could see through. Well my doctor release me... needless to say I was really really hungry, the last time I had eaten was Friday for dinner. my husband took me to eat. I told my self to eat slowly since it had been a while since I ate solid foods, well I got halfway through my plate when it all started back up again. I sat there for a while hoping it would go away because I was still hungry. I went to see what else I could get off the buffet, but I had a hard time walking, I was dizzy, and the pain was so bad. I really did not each much after all this started so we went home. My pain lasted about 6 hours total. I felt fine when I got up..... Well now that it has been a while since being in the hospital I am getting worse. It hurts to walk, lay down and of course after eating..... I am loosing sleep because it hurts so bad to lay down on my side or my stomach, I can't sleep on my back, never have been able to. When I lay on my stomach it feels like a knott in my upper abdominal area... but yet when I get checked out they say there is nothing wrong with me.

If anyone can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it!!! I am desperate!!! I can not seem to get any diagnosis.... and I am to the point where I wont eat at all. I can not handle the pain. Might I mention I am also on pain pills and they don't do much help either. And when I say pain pills I am talking about percocet. This is all my primary doctor wants to do for me because he says there is nothing he can do for me until I see the gastro doctor. And when I seen him, he said he knows I am in a lot of pain, he doesn't know what it is and there is nothing he can do for me.

Also here lately I have been running a slight fever.. but that has been a recent thing.

[crambone]

sounds like pancreas problems to me,,see,after you eat,your pancreas excreats enzymes for digestion,well,when you develope pancreatitis,,your pancreas does not release the enzymes,but instead activates them inside the pancreas its self,and it basicly eats itself!!!
that causes SEVERE pain,,and when your not eating it wont hurt because the pancreas is not releasing enzymes,,,see,,make sine?
my buddy got pancreatitis from drinking way too much and not hes all messed up.
pancreatitis does not go away(chronic pancreatitis)..and slowly destroys itself.
there is not much people with chronic pancreatitis can do,,take enzymes to said in digestion,eat small meals after,and no fatty foods,no alcohol at all!!
worse case sinareo,they can remove part of the pancreas thats damaged,,,and cell transplant cells to the better side to help regenerate that part...
people can also easly develope it from gallbladder problems,,as they are all connected.
i had similar pains,but not after eating,just in general,i had lots of tests,and they found nothing too.
i,through research have narrowed it down to either pancreas problems do to too much partying,or GERD,,or gallbladder pains from too much fatty/fried foods.
if you have no gallbladder,it is possible to still get "phantom" pains,but id have them check youe AMALYAS/LIYPAS levels next time you have an attack,,thats one of the best ways to check,but its got to be done when your having the attack!
also do simple ultrasound of the pancreas can tell if you have calcification,or enlargment of the pancreas.
i hope this helps.
by the way you cannot live without a pancreas like a gallbladder.
so you cannot just have it removed,,just to let ya know,,good luck!

[bncrump]

I could have written your post myself. I suffer from the SAME exact thing. EXCEPT that I have my gallbladder. I have not had the battery of tests that you have had though and no one can tell me what is wrong. My pain isn't severe but it is constant and more like pressure. After I eat, I feel dizzy and weak...and I have been running a fever lately. I was going to ask the dr for a HIDA scan but after reading your post, I am not so certain that it is my gallbladder :(

Good luck and I hope you get some answers soon. If you do, please let me know. I am going crazy here as well!!!!