Gall Bladder, Nausea, Abdominal Pain - Desperate to figure this out!

[csws24]

I am 20 yo female. I spent over a year with increasing symptoms of nausea. I went to see the doctor numerous times, given multiple pregancy tests. After every test came back negative, the doctor told me it was my gallbladder. I progressively got worse and began vomitting, fever, and no energy to even leave bed. I had a hida scan, which turned out my gallbladder was only working in the 30% range which was far lower than the typical 80% range for my age, I had my gallbladder out a couple weeks later. After the removal of my gallbladder, I got worse. The pain became constant, everything I ate made me sick, and still continues too. I often have to use the bathroom without much warning. The pain is unbareable sometimes. It is mostly in my upper abdomen straight through to my mid back as well, sometimes though it spreads up or down my back and in my lower abdomen. Doing physical activity makes me dizzy and extremely nauseous, usually come close to throwing up if not actually throwing up. I am miserable, I only survive because of phenergan, but I am a college student and athlete and I can't keep up anymore. I read a post on here from 1999, a woman had similar symptoms to me and mentioned kidney infections. Around the time I got really sick, the doctor told me I had a UTI, and put me on Cipral (sp?), that was in June, I got 2 more by August. Just as I read a previous woman say, Cipral helped but did not solve any problems. My last "infection" was the worst, the pain in my kidney region was unbareable and I could not even get out of bed. I am confused because I have never had a UTI or kidney infection prior to June and am and have not been sexually active while any of this has been going on. I have been given complete STD testing and they all came back negative. I have had an ultrasound and x-ray of my abdomen, both coming back negative. I hvae been waiting to get into a GI doctor, but still have over a month to even get my intial consultation. I am losing my mind! Any help would be fantastic!

[Bellachica]

I feel your pain. I have been having similar problems and I am at my end as well:

I am 25 years old. for the past 3 weeks I have been throwing up every 10 minutes. I have ended up in the emergency room twice due dehydration. I have been in severe pain on my right side, right underneath my rib cage. At first doctors though it could be my appendix (since I had my gallbladder removed a year ago). But the CT scan came back fine. My blood work was fine (my white blood cell count was a little elevated but they said that was normal with vomitting). They even checked my liver and pancreas with these blood tests....and still not sure why I am having this pain and nausea.  They said it could be flu or food poisoning.

Well a week went by and was still in pain and throwing up. The phenergan was not working for the nausea, and I was on a limited diet that consisted of plain toast, when I could eat...and broth when I wasn't feeling well. I had a fever of 102, which went away 4 days later. Every once in awhile I feel very light headed, sweating a lot, like I am going to faint (in which I did twice).

I have had other blood work done, which has all come back fine. I can't do anything but rest. I am finally on Zophran which is helping more than the Phenergan...but still a little sick to my stomach (and I am for sure not pregnant). The pain is still there and I am starting to get worried.

I have gone to the doctor many times...and now it's time for a GI specialist. My problem with GI doctors, is it took 4 to figure out what was wrong with my gallbladder. (Background story from a year ago: had the gallbladder scan twice, was in excruciating pain during the test, but test came back fine. Fought with 3 doctors, convinced the fourth one to perform the surgery....result...gallbladder was black completely twisted, and huge ball of scar tissue underneath the gallbladder.)

You are not alone. I am so sorry you are going through this. I hope you can get your problem fixed soon.

[Bhupinder Kaur, MD]

Hello,

Going by your symptoms many possibilities are coming to my mind.Firstly,it can be pelvic inflammatory disease which can be caused by an infection of the pelvic organs.
As you are a female, so this possibility is high. It can also be due to fibroid uterus or ovarian cysts. Ultrasound abdomen and cervical swabs are needed to rule them out.

Secondly, possibility of irritable bowel syndrome is also there. Diagnosis is made on basis of clinical evaluation.

Thirdly, appendicitis has to be ruled out.Fourthly, crohn’s disease can be the cause of this pain. Crohn's disease most commonly affects the last part of the small intestine, usually located in the right lower abdomen. Diagnosed by barium enemas and colonoscopy.
Lastly,it can be due to liver pathologies or pancreatitis.

I feel that a CT abdomen and blood tests are required.An evaluation by a gastroenterologist would be the best.Pls discuss these possibilities with a gastroenterologist.

Hope it helps.Take care and pls do keep me posted on how you are doing.