I am speaking of behalf of my fiancee who has been through quite a medical journey for the past 18 months. Here is a brief list of what she has gone through.
-Feb06-Jun06 abdominal pain in center to right side.
-july06-Gull bladder taken out
-april 07 pain comes back again.
she goes to see her first gastro doctor, and an endoscopy shows ulcer.
-July07 pain still there, we visit a different gastro doctor at John Hopkins in Baltimore, MD. another endoscopy performed, ulcer gone. but... she still has the abdominal pain.
-Jan07 we visit our 3rd gastro doctor, and he seems to think there is a problem with her bile duct.
-feb07 the doctor performed a procedure on her bile duct. I dont know exactly what he did, other than he went down her throat with a camera.
Now here we are after 3 doctors, 2 surgerys, many, many tests she still has the pain, and since her recent surgery 2 weeks ago, the pain has gotten worse. She states pain medication in pill form does not touch it. We took her back to the hospital this past monday due to the pain being so bad. She was vommitting green. It seems like none of the doctors we have seen want to help her, or know what might be going on. They just keep sending her home, "oh you will be ok, just take pain killers."
This has been a very very tough experiance for her, both of us. We cannot live our daily lives like normal adults. She does not go anywhere, she goes to work in tears most days. If anybody out there may know an answer, or someone who does, please let us know. My fiancee is only 22 years old. Shes way to young to be going through this.