Can someone please help me??

[yatisme]

i have been to a couple doctors and a specialist and still have no answers. Here are my syptoms:
first I start to feel a severe pain in my UPPER stomach . . if you take your right hand and lay it flat on your stomach with your pinky finger laying just above your belly button.  .  the pain is all where your hand is covering. I have a pretty decent pain tolerence but this cripples me.
next I start shaking and sweating LOTS
I get diarreah and a nasea but I dont always throw up.
It usually happens in the middle of the night but not always and it lasts between 3 and 5 hours although I just had a  day where i got 3 of them in 24 hours.
This happens once every couple months but it has been 6 months between the last 2.
I have had a gullbladder efficiency test that turned out okay and I have had ultra sounds and x-rays. . no one knows. Please HELP
amanda

[Narble]

Good luck with it. Specialties likely to be helpful include hematology, endocrinology, neurology, and rheumatology, depending of course on what is found along the way.

[yatisme]

Thanks so much for taking the time to try to help.
I have kept a food log and could not find anything in common. I have seen a GI specialist and he was at a loss. I do plan on seeing more and more people to figure this out. the pain is to intense to give up!

[Narble]

Lots of possibilities come to mind, from food allergy/intolerance to porphyria (in particular acute intermittent porphyria). But you've already seen some specialists and ruled out some possibilities, so I don't know what might be causing your symptoms.

You're going to have to start seeing physicians to figure this out. If you have a primary care physician, get a referral for a specialist (a GI specialist as a possible starting point). You may have to keep seeing doctor after doctor, ruling out one possibility after another, before you finally find the answer. Abdominal pain is a very general symptom, as are your others. So patience and perseverance. And I suggest keeping track of each attack, noting date and time, what you ate, drank, and did during the preceding 24-48 hours, and how the attack evolved and resolved. That information may help speed up the diagnosis.