Undiagnosed Chest and Abdominal pain

[bpg2210]

Hello, I'm a 23 year old male and I need some help please. This is going to be long so please bear with me. About 6 months ago I went on a skiing trip with the family to West Virginia. We were there for 5 days and I started feeling sick after day 2. I had a mild fever, headache, and a feeling of weakness. Upon returning home I was watching tv one night and my temperature shot up to 103 within about an hour, I had a sudden extreme weakness come over me and later had bright bloody stool. I went to the local ER and they said that I was probably just getting over a virus and that nothing major seemed to be wrong.

For about 2 weeks after that I felt good, but then one night I was going to bed and had a pounding, throbbing, pulsating feeling in the middle of my chest. I stayed up all night before eventually going to an urgent care facility. They did an EKG and everything came back okay and they diagnosed me with H. Pylori. I was on antibiotics for 5 days and everything was going good. however as soon as i stopped taking the antibiotics the sensations came back, not as bad this time around but never easing up. My primary Physician was out of town so i went to a high recommended GI doctor. He suggested i have an upper GI Endoscopy, but before doing so i would need to get cardiac clearance from a cardiologist.

The Cardiologist had me take a 24 hour halter monitor home, ECG, Stress test, and a Eco test, everything came back normal.Then I went back to the GI for the Endoscopy, only for it to come back normal as well. I have since been to my primary physician 3 times and back to the ER once more, where they did a blood test and a CT scan only to come back normal. my primary physician has yet to come up with any diagnoses that he is confident about. he first diagnosed me with Costocondritis but the anti-inflammatory medicine didn't help. He also prescribed me some anti-anxiety medication but it had no effect either. Now he has me on a 30 day antibiotic to try to eradicate any possible infections I might have and he told me that if this didn't do the trick he was unsure of what to do next, as every test has shown nothing abnormal.

The reason I am so concerned is because the pain and discomfort is so constant and changing. Sometimes it is in the middle of my chest, sometimes i have sharp pain near my right collar bones, other times i have a aggravating sensation in my right shoulder blade, and I almost always have a feeling of swelling/pressure under the lower left side of my rib cage. also, all of these pains change from just a dull soreness, to a feeling of broken glass under my ribs. It doesn't hurt to breath and I don't have shortness of breath, but I do feel tenderness behind my sternum when I breath in very deep.

As of right now I feel like I could have some type of major organ failure at any minute. I would really like to just have some type of diagnoses that sounds even related to what I'm going through. As I said, this has been recurring for over 6 months now with no answers and the unknowing is killing me. I appreciate any advice or help.

Thank You

[sexymom1987]

Yes

[SassyLassie]

I would ask the doctor for the blood test that tests for Fibromyalgia, it is a disease that can mimic lots of other diseases, and since you are getting good results from all of your tests, this could be the culprit. I believe the test is called "Epstein Barr" your doctor will know for sure.

Hope you feel better soon,

[bpg2210]

Thanks, ill ask my doc about it.