I am a 23 year old female, and I've been experiencing severe upper right quadrant pain for the past two weeks. It's at its worst within an hour or two after I eat, along with severe nausea (doesn't matter what or how little I eat), but can occur even when I don't eat. Activity also seems to bring it on, as does taking a deep breath. This pain is debilitating, and lasts anywhere from half an hour to six hours, depending on the attack. I've also lost my apatite since then, and have lost 13 pounds in these two weeks.

The day after my first attack, I went to my university clinic and had an abdominal ultrasound done (results normal). I was given Donatal, but this only seemed to make the symptoms worse, including diarrhea within an hour of eating and some shortness of breath, and occasional asthma like reactions that only lasted a few minutes. After four more days of these symptoms, I went to the ER. Another Ultrasound and abdominal CT came back normal, I was released with an anti acid and pain killers. The next day I followed up with a GI doctor, who thought my symptoms were severe enough to be admitted to the hospital.

After a week in the hospital, the doctors were still clueless. I had every test imaginable run, most came back with unremarkable results. Ultrasound was normal, abdominal CT showed a distended stomach but otherwise normal, pelvic CT was normal, HIDA scan triggered a severe attack when CCK was injected, but had a 70% ejection rate. Chest CT and X-rays were taken to rule out broken ribs, normal results. Endoscopy came back with esophagitis NOT caused by acid reflux (otherwise normal), and colonoscopy came back with normal results. I was given multiple antispasmodics, anti acids and ulcer medicines, with no change in symptoms. CBC and other blood tests showed nearly everything as running low (though this may be caused by not being able to eat), and WBC came back extremely low, at 299. The surgeon seemed to believe that this was still somehow gallbladder related, but didn't have enough proof to operate. The GI doctor was very apologetic, saying that they didn't handle a lot of unusual cases, and was given orders to follow up with another GI specialist that's use to dealing with unusual cases. The appointment is set for next week.

I've been out of the hospital for two days, and the symptoms are still the same. If anyone has any ideas as to what may be causing this, any insights would be greatly appreciated!