Unexplained pain and blood in stools

[Calamity76]

Hi guys, first time posting here but hoping you may be able to offer advice or just talk about your experiences. I’m 46 always been healthy, the fit bit has been a bit hit and Miss over the years, but apart from prolapsed discs in my back I’ve never really been sickly. Until last November when my life was turned on its head. I noticed blood in my stool, but no pain proper freaked out. Saw GP has rectal exam no piles or fissures or masses but sent for urgent colonoscopy. During the consultation she asked about my bowel habits, had they changed… well yes, used to be a x1 a day girl but now was a couple of times a day and a lot looser sometimes borderline diarrhoea and the smell, like a rotten corpse, sometimes yellow and thin too, I’d also been a lot gassier and bloated to the max, I did however put all this down to being premenopausal. Fast forward to the bowel prep, by day 2 I had a gnawing pain in my back near my left kidney and by the day of the colonoscopy it was whomping pretty bad. Had the sedation, not sure why they call it that as didn’t have any effect on me at all, the pain was excruciating, not in my stomach but my back. She stopped asked if I’d ever had an ulcer, NO, or a hysterectomy No… failed colonoscopy and CT colonoscopy requested. The pain over these past few weeks has been the most severe pain I have ever felt in my life… I could hardly move, it felt like my insides were being rinsed in acid and the spasms in both my back and my upper left side prompted the GP to send me to a&e suspecting pancreatitis. A&E left me for hours and sent me on my way with a rushed diverticulitis diagnosis. No explanation, no here’s what you do now, just codiene. Codiene made me constipated so took lactose as not going made the pain and bloating worse. Again made me feel like my insides were being twisted, I genuinely felt like I was going insane with pain so Back to A & E this time told it was just back pain!!!! Given morphine… back to GP who still has no idea why I am in so much pain. I was on 7.5mls morphine and diazepam just to take the edge off. They tried tramadol, buscopan, and now amiltriptaline, which has helped but the pain still throbs in the back ground. I still have morphine if it flares up. I have no appetite, when I do eat maybe some toast, Jacket potato it’s straight through me. Had 3 lots of bloody diarrhoea last week. I’m now loosing weight, Whilst I’m writing this essay ( sorry ), I’m sat on a heated blanket as that helps with the pain feeling very sorry for myself. I’ve googled various causes so many times, I’m scared to look up my symptoms again. I’m worried it’s IBD or worse. I have all the symptoms but no evidence as The CT scan was clear although GP said they couldn’t view all the colon as wasn’t fully empty…. You’re kidding right… the stuff you take works so unsure how it could be, and how can they call it all clear if they didn’t see it all. No mention of polyps, inflammation nothing, pancreas was clear as was spleen and gallbladder, so I’m now awaiting an MRI and gastrointestinal apt which has come through for July and GP has written back to Colorectal team for advice and guidance. I don’t understand what is going on in my body, but I don’t want to just keep masking the problem with pain killers. I can’t function like this, I have children and a job ( although I feel like that may end soon due to the amount of time I’ve had off since November). Has anybody ever had anything like this, I can’t be the only one. I just want my life back. Thank you for reading 😞

[b1b1b1]

It is very upsetting that you have to wait until July to see a gastroenterologist. Is there any possibility that you could go privately?