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Constant Pain above navel that radiates to back area






    
Asked by Unregistered (Female; 35; USA; Gastric Bypass surgery-2005,Pancreatitus-2005,Migraine Headaches-2006,Full Hysterectomy-2007,Colonoscopy,Gastronoscopy-2008,Balloon Dilation-2008; Relevant drugs:Cenestin ) on Sat 16, Aug 2008 11:58am :

My wife is 35 y/o and have been having pains on her left side every day for 5 months and they do not go away,the pain only intensifies and when it does it goes all the way to her back area.She has seen 3 different GI doctors and specialists and had CT scans,colonoscopy,barium swallows,gastronoscopy with all of these doctors.Her recent visit at the Baylor College in Houston was a test she had to test the outside of intestines it came back normal just like all of her other tests.All of her bloodwork is normal too.She had a colonoscopy with a clinic back in June said in the bloodwork that her CRP level was elevated and said it is an infection but didn't know what kind or where. My wife has had a Gastric Bypass Surgery back in 2005 and a month afterwards suffered with pancreatitus that had her a month in the hospital,but afterwards she was fine.A year later she suffered with migraines that lasted about a year that made her have seizures if she didn't take her medication they still don't know why she had these headaches.Afterwards she was having excessive periods a month and dropped her blood pressure to 70/44 and from that led to her having a full hysterectomy in Dec 2007,after going through the healing process from that surgery that's when she started having the every day abdomen pains that she is having now since March 2008.Her surgeon at Baylor does not want to do laparascopic surgery because if she does has adhesions,having another surgery will likely stem more.So my wife still has to go through pain while the doctors are trying to figure out answers on what to do . If someone out there has answers can you please help us this has put a financial strain on our family going to Houston Tx almost every week and from this my wife has not been able to maintain a normal lifestyle and this has kept her out of work for over a year now.

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Answer by Dr Smitha M, MD (doctor) on Sun 31, Aug 2008 07:01am:

Hi, CRP can be raised in conditions other than infections. These include inflammatory conditions and tissue injury or necrosis. Despite the detailed history you have presented, it is impossible to arrive at a diagnosis with that alone. It would be great if you could post a few details of the blood tests she has had done. Please post details of her liver function tests and serum amylase levels. Also post any additional symptoms she has other than the pain and the names of the medicines she is currently on. It is possible that the pain she has could be due to pancreatitis (chronic) or due to duodenal ulcers or infection of the GI tract or inflammatory diseases of the GI tract. She should have had a stool examination done along with the blood tests, but if she has had it done and the report is available, do post that here as well. In addition, please post whether the pain has any correlation to food intake. Do post your reply as a follow up so that it will send an alert to my email.
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