i have been changing my diet so it could be constipation but i have been having a bad pain on my lower left side and i found blood in my crap last night but it also hurt…i havent crapped right in a while and i wanna know if its constipation or colon cancer.
ive been drinking alot of water and i just recently had xrays done for my chest and shifted ribs. could those all play in as factors?

I have been experiencing bad bloating after eating as well as stomach pain under my ribs. I am very uncomfortable and often have muscle issues with my back in particular. I believed to have had gallstones but I went to the ER yesterday and had an ultra-sound which showed nothing. I did not get to talk to a doctor because the free clinic sucks. I do not have insurance. The doctor at another clinic emailed his results and a nurse read them to me saying that he believed it is either an Ulcer or Acid Reflux.

Today I woke up and passed a bowel movement which looks very different than I have ever had before. I researched the white stringy substance attached to my bowel and it appears that I have a parasite??

I have noticed that several of the symptoms are similar between ulcers/acid reflux and parasites, but wouldn’t the ultra-sound have shown that I have worms?

They want me to go do an x-ray for ulcers but again I don’t have insurance and my last hospital visit lasted 12 hours and I never spoke to a doctor.

So here’s my 3 questions. 1. Does this sound like a parasite? 2. Why wouldn’t it have shown up in my ultra-sound. 3. What should I do now? Can I just take an over-the-counter colon cleanse?

I am writing as i am concerned about my Wife, if anyone could help us that would be great. Last night she was crampy as if she were on her period,but she had it a week ago, so thought it was weird. The next day (today) she was still crampy and then had a clot of blood come from her rectum when she was going to the bathroom… number 2.

What could this be? She is in no actual pain down there but is still crampy just underneath her ribs, unlike yesterday’s more period pain symostoms. She describes her stomach pain as the feeling she gets after drinking too much milk.

Any suggestions on what to do would be greatly appreciated.

K, this is getting annoying and i cant find anything that matches my symptoms.
right now my ribs on the left are feeling a constant, relatively sharp pain.

Here’s how it went, Me and a friend we’re talking over skype about emotionally painful topic.
Eventually i began to feel a pain in my left side, followed by dizziness, a tight chest, and nausea.
Standing up made it much worse. Well i woke up the next morning feeling fine, but then a few pains came back but not very bad at all just annoying. This was about three days ago.
I have had an incredibly small fever nothing to even worry about…but ive been sweating and feeling hot. So here’s where im at now, pain in my left ribs, abdominal pain, dizzyness, tight chest, slight slight fever, a tingling body, and now i even am having a bit of rectal bleeding.

as stated before, the pains arent very intense, but are always a bother and can be enough to make me wince at times.

very detailed description, and very confusing for me, im assuming theres nothing to worry about but im having the weirdest symptoms, nothing seems to match.

I’ve been having problems w/abdominal pain for over a year. I’ve had tons of tests done-no doctor can figure out what’s wrong. The main issues are a feeling of fullness, like a rock that’s stuck smack dab in the center of my abdomen, a couple of inches above my belly button. The fullness usually occurs after I eat and often is at its worst several hours after I eat. The feeling of fullness doesn’t go away for HOURS! Sometimes I feel like I don’t even get hungry because I’m still so full from my last meal. Sometimes I have pain, like a gnawing sensation. I also have problems with burping a lot (I never used to!). Sometimes the feeling is directly in between where by ribs meet. But more often it’s right in the middle of my torso, about 2-3 inches above my belly button. Please, if anyone has any idea what this could be, please please give me suggestions! Is this where my pancreas is located? My transverse colon? Pancreatic duct? I have NO idea, but it’s driving me crazy!

I keep having this pain behind my ribs, are they from my intestine or my kidney? any doctors?
Thanks for answering.

Hello,

A little over two weeks ago, I experienced really weird and very painful pain in my upper abdomen. It felt like a wave of pain was going from one side to the other. I never had that before, so I ended up spending a day at the hospital. They made me do blood tests, since they suspected I might have had a case of appendicitis. I also did a few chest x-rays, I believe in order to check if there was any obstruction in my intestine, because they also suspected constipation. None of them turned out positive for any of those signs. The general surgeon could not understand what it was. Whenever he pressed on at the top in between my lower ribs, I would be in a lot of pain. In the end, he told me that I might just have constipation, and to just improve my diet with lots of fiber and liquids.

I began doing so, but then whenever I go to the washroom now, I have rectal bleeding with pain. I find it on the toilet paper and in the bowl as well. I’ve been doing some readings, and what I’ve found was that I might have a case of hemorrhoids, which would explain the bleeding. I’ve been trying to keep up a high fiber diet, although I must admit I might not be taking the 35g recommendation. I will start taking Metamucil, so hopefully that’ll help a bit.

Looking back at what I had, I’m really worried that I might have a type of colon cancer. Is it possible with the symptoms I had/have? Has anyone else experienced this and found any answers?

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help,

Thank you