Does anyone have an answer for abdominal pain? Has anyone experienced this

[daveyboy]

This is my first time to post, and actually my sister in law is doing it and and sending it for me since I have never done this before. Does your email answer go directly to my email so that I can see it?
Anyway, let me bergin.

My name is David , I am a 51 year old C3, C4 incomplete quad seven years post injury. I am experiencing stomach and groin pain and am scheduled to go in for a colonoscopy/endoscopy next week. I strongly believe that from years of doing the bowel program and using suppositories and enemees it has damage the lining of my colon as I lay on my left side. The pain radiates from my ribcage down into my groin and sometimes into my leg.
I have traveled to China twice for stem cell treatment and have regained feeling and movement in both legs and have been able to stand up bare my own weight with minimal assistance.

Does anyone have any suggestions or input? I had a abd. scan that showed cysts on the kidney but no sign of blockage in the bowel. I occassionaly get swelling in that area. I have been so uncomfortable and have become a little discouraged. Hoping someone can give me a little information.
I find that pain increases after I eat and I experience temporary relief after my bowel program. I'd really appreciate your input and any advice you can offer.

I currently live in Delray Beach Florida. If anyone has any input that would be helpful!
Thank you

[lynnifer]

Maybe some probiotics - or yogurt with such - to 'baby' the abdominal system? This isn't the first time I've heard of pain in that area with the paralyzed. Maybe it's gas as well? That can cause pain, definitely.

Good deal on recovering some from China! Rare to hear that!

[jody]

could it be bone pain? my pain kinda sounds like that, and it turns out to be hip displasia. worn away bone.

[makoman]

I had divurticulitis that was painful on my left side. Needed a CAT to find it. Good Luck.
How much gain do you atteribute from China?

[cass]

am 23 yrs post. have had neuropathic pain 24/7 since. have had abdominal pain last 3 yrs or so. had colonoscopy, naturopath, etc. good luck. i can't work any more because of it.

let me know if you find any help.

[Brin387]

This is for all the misdiagnosed with IBS and undiagnosed sufferers out there.Watery or loose stools, diarrhea, abdominal pain, anal itching, Distended stomach, and excess gas. Does this sound like your symptoms well here are a few links that might help.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/blastocystishominis/factsht_blastocystis_hominis.htm#symptoms (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/blastocystishominis/factsht_blastocystis_hominis.htm#symptoms)
http://www.badbugs.org/ (http://www.badbugs.org/)

Be sure your have all the other posibilites checked also and dont get stuck with the mindset that this is it and not have other issues checked. When your health is important to you and you feel your doctor isnt on the right track do some of your own
research. Not every doctor will come to the same result 100% of the time, there are far to many aliments to even remeber all their names. the only way to be tested for this is a stool sample looking for OVA& Parasite. Hopefully this helps someone.
E-Mail me at Brin387@hotmail.com (Brin387@hotmail.com)

[firesmurf]

just a thought here dave,one of a few different possibilities only. since you are in the Dx mode right now,i am just wondering if any docs have ever actually checked out your amylaise and lipase enzymes? this would show whether or not there just could be some level of pancreatitis going on. my son suffered theu this painful nightmare during liver failure right before he went into total liver failure. i am in no way saying you have a liver issue, only that the pancreas can cause some pretty awful and radiating types of pain too.

wherever you have a particular type of pain issue that develops other than our 'normal' crap, you have to kind of take a good hard look at just what is underneath/within that area and either rule it in or out so you can move onto other areas too. its a matter of test and rule out and moving onto the next possible when Dxing anything really. have they run a full hepatic panel on you too? and also the kidney functions only because of the cysts being there at all? also, depending upon what types of meds you have been taking over the years or recently, CAN also create their own types of issues too. when you have gall bladder issues, in some people it can actually cause alot of radiated left sided pain too. its just the way the nerves actually run. things can get a bit odd when things just happen within that abdominal area.

i am just wondering something here. given that they actually saw some cysts, from what you stated here, you said 'ON" the kidney? were these actually ON the kidney or IN the kidney or both? did they happen to actually check out both kidneys at all? there just are some types of actual cystic kidney diseases out there that can create their own problems.

i also have one called polycystic kidney disease. had it all my life but did not have a freaking clue it was even there til my youngest son started vomiting up blood one day at school and we found out he had some mutated version of this kidney disease that attacked his liver as well(he was only 12 years old then). in my particular case, i get ALOT of pain from both kidney and liver cysts with two of them actually somehow creating themselves in the psoas muscle which does give me left sided and groin pain/high butt pain too. its the way that psoas runs and the fact that muscle does not like anything to just be in it, at all and will show itself with some pretty intense pain at times.

have they done an ultrasound on you at all just to really go thru all of the areas within the abdomen? this is actually how they monitor my kidney/liver disease and how they also found those two seperate cysts within that dang psoas too. just a thought for ya. just so you know,with many actual cystic types of diseases espescially within the kidney and the liver, your actual labs would not actually even be out of range. it takes alot of cumulative types of damage to actually even affect overall kidney/liver function BEFORE the magic threshhold level gets reached that would create those changes in numbers. despite my kidneys being loaded with cysts both inside and out and my liver the same way, and both kidneys being at least three times the norm in size ,i still(as of two months ago) have 'perfect' labs. unbelievable when you actually see my ultrasounds. but this is the reality of any lab changes that affect functions.

just some possibilitys for ya that should be checked out for the source of your ongoing pain. i do hope they can find that real true cause so at least it can be better treated for you. i am also an incomplete c 6-7. one other thing to check out would be any level of affectation of your vagus nerve. if it is being affected at all, since this is a nerve that really does go way into the GI area, it could also be part of the problem. they actually call that vagus the "wandering nerve" just because it does go quite a ways from up as a cranial nerve down into the GI area. just some thoughts. please keep us posted,Marcia