New Year, New stomach issues - may be TMI

Another first of the year Emergency Room visit and trip to the gastro doc.

So about two weeks ago I spent 6 hours in the emergency room. Within 30 minutes they had given me something for severe abdominal pain but then I spent the next 5 hours pukeing my guts out. Nothing came back in blood work and it was felt no surgery was needed since I have monappendix or gall bladder.

Then new years eve rolled around and during my brother's Anniversary/wedding party I started having the pain, experiencing nausea and dizziness and generally feeling crappy. I made it to 9:30 am and then decided to go back to the ER. My Mom was able to take the kids and I drove myself which was interesting. After 4 hours, bloodwork, an xray, and a CT scan and 7 trips to the bathroom due to the diarrhea I was experiencing (which why would you put me down the hall and around the corner from the bathroom I'm not sure. At least the nurse got smart and unhooked me from the machines) the doctor told me I was completely normal with no findings whatsoever. Umm sorry doc but grabbing pain every 5-10 minutes is not normal. And the shot you put in my arm that burnt like the fire I started in the microwave last week did squat to help. His answer- could be a virus. Here is some morphine for the pain. Hopefully it won't make you puke.

Ok I'm being snarky. He was very nice. But it was still frustrating. He even called two days later to check on me. And he did send me home with a script of pain med which I will squirrel away for bad head pain days.

So I called the GI doc who I now see more regularly than my OBGYN. She told me it was bowel spasms which can cause pain, nausea, diarrhea and come and go. Probiotics, fiber supplement, and the pill form of the fire shot I got at the hospital except alternate days as this will make you constipated.

6 days later my stomach is still jacked up but we'll get there. Cause of all this? Stress. Interestingly this pain seems to hav replaced the anxiety I've been feeling for the last month. Should make this year VERY interesting.