severe pain and no diagnosis

[Kersey48]

I was hospitalised with severe pain (15 dose morphine by paramedic before any help) The pain was just under my ribs worst on left side. lasted for 11 hours. consultant checked for gall stones and when this was negative discharged me with no diagnosis. I am quite scared of getting such severe pain again but they seemed quite unconcerned about this. I am so fed up with constant no diagnosis and no one seems to care. What do others think I should do next?

[Satuna]

Hi Kersey48, Sorry to hear about your experience. Morphine is not a good drug at all. I had to take it for a year as I waited for my Gallbladder removal. Your body becomes addicted to it rather quickly. It gives you terrible constipation too. Have you had a camera put down to see if you have Gallstones? If not then you need to insist on it with your doctor. Unfortunately covid had messed everything up! Hope you get it sorted. In my experience you have to keep on contacting your doctor and telling how bad the pain is.

[Kersey48 in reply to Satuna]

I have to take morphine (patches ) due to peripheral neuropathy ( over 20 years now) but when you think I had my patch on and then all that IV morphine well you would think they would understand how bad the pain was wouldnt you. Def. not gallstones though as I had an ultrasound to check,.

[Batty1]

You probably should go see a gastroenterologist and quick and I 100% agree with satuna morphine is not good for you.

[Kersey48 in reply to Batty1]

I am having a colonoscopy soon but this wont cover where the pain was and the ultrasound did not show anything.

[Batty1 in reply to Kersey48]

True a colonoscopy won’t go into the upper intestines .... If it were me I would see a gastroenterologist.

[Neckback]

Has your doctor ruled out gastritis?

[Kersey48 in reply to Neckback]

I was in hospital and th e consultant did not tell me he had. In fact apart from that I did not have gallstones he told me nothing. It is not easy to see the GP at the present due to Covid but I will go to see her asap

[Pacificview]

Maybe it was a single stone passing through. I had gallstone attacks in the past. Finally after i almost waited too long to deal with the issue, the gallbadder was removed after a severe attack. Then a couple years ago. I had the same severe pain that you have with a severe gallbladder attack. I thought why am I having severe gallbladder attack pain without a gallbladder?Well, I went to the hospital and stayed a couple of days with all the MRI, CT scans etc. Come to find out I had passed another stone as they could see the dialation where it had moved through causing havoc along its exit route along with extreme pain!!!!!Could be what you experienced???????

No gallbladder but still passed a stone go figure.

Stone passing through organs, whether you have a gallbladder or not causes severe pain, sweating, hot flashing, dizziness to the point of passing out.

Took lots of morphine to stop shaking from the shock from the pain.

By the way, I have not had another rogue stone in the last 2 years. Thats my experience with stones and i hope it helps...

[etheral]

An abdominal ultrasound cannot rule out gallstones. You need an ERCP to find out what is going on with the duct to definitely diagnose this. An endoscope with a camera will be introduced down your oesophagus and into the sphincter of oddi . You will be sedated. Other possibilities include pancreatitis, kidney stones, hepatitis, aneurysm, etc. You need to see a gastroenterologist to rule out anything life threatening and try to make a diagnosis.