I posted on here a while back and got some helpful tips but it hasn't changed so I thought I might as well post again.
First off, I'm 19 and I'm female.
It's been over a year now since I started getting pains in my right side (varies between "McBurney's point" and navel height on the right). I first started getting it very badly and went to the doctor, panicking that I had appendicitis or something and was told that it wasn't and was told to go home and just rest. The symptoms didn't stop so I went back and he said that it was probably a "feminine problem" because he didn't know what to do, so I was passed on to another doctor. She suspected Endometriosis but then decided that wasn't it, I was diagnosed with an ovarian cyst. I was send to the hospital where they gave me an internal scan, told me I had a cyst (which by then I knew) and told me to go home and get rest as there was nothing they could do. By this point no one had bothered to prescribe me any painkillers so I was in a lot of pain. It started to fade after a while but then it came back, sometimes on the left but mostly on the right. I went back to the doctors and was told I now had a cyst on the left and was told to, once more, go home and get some rest.
That was all about 9 or so months ago, then about 3 months ago I decided to go to a different doctor (Chinese doctor, different methods). He told me that it could be an inflamed appendix (not appendicitis) or a problem with my gut, I was asked to come back in a few days if the problem hadn't gone. I came back and he rules out appendix problems but still couldn't tell me what was causing my pain. Again, at this point I still hadn't been prescribed and pain medication.
And here I am. I still have terrible pains in my right side (varying from a dull ache to stabbing sharp pains. Not like my cyst pains from before). I don't seem to have many other symptoms; I don't get nausea, no constipation or diarrhoea, no vomiting, no dizziness, no loss of appetite. I've been urinating a bit more frequently but I drink a lot of fluids so I assumed it was normal. I've also been getting tiny patches of dry skin across my calves, one or two on my arms and one on my left eyelid (don't know if that could be related). And I get occasional hot flushes and I'm tired nearly all the time. The pains tend to get worse when I'm tired, if I've been standing up or walking for a while or when I'm upset or stressed. They're still there when I get my period but mine are painful anyway so it's hard to tell between them (and I'm on the pill, helps regulate and the pains are even worse when I'm off the pill).
At this point I really don't know what to do. My doctors can't seem to tell me what's wrong (and I've been to four different ones!), it's interfering with my job and my coursework, it makes it difficult to get out of bed sometimes. My mum won't take me to the hospital for any sort of tests because she doesn't seem to take it seriously and she thinks that the hospital will be a waste of time.
I could really use some help please!