October Doctor Appointment and Current Symptoms

It’s now October of 2011:

          Current list of symptoms I am dealing with:

Abdominal pain/spasm (constant, but worse after eating, and when severe, gets hot to touch).

Back/Shoulder pain (when abdominal pain is at its worst).

Nausea (constant with occasional vomiting, with green bile and no food, OR undigested food).

Feel Full/Bloating during meals/ OR Feels like the food gets Stuck —occasionally, feels like I will get sick if I eat another bite.

Blood sugar levels too low or too high, occasional (causes the headache, dizziness, lightheadedness, shakiness, sweating).

Fever…usually around 99.

Heartburn—very occasionally.

Metallic taste in mouth OR sour taste—constant.

Hiccups—occasionally.

Muscle cramps in legs and feet, occasionally, mostly nights.

Chest Cramps- occasionally..feels like a spasm in my middle chest.

Insomnia---constant (when I lay down, it feels like my heart will pound right out of my chest).

Alternating constipation and diarrhea—constant.

Plus, I still have the hernia.

                                     

This Week:  I am scheduled for another EGD with a biopsy.

My new surgeon will be performing this test/surgery. According to the surgeon’s PA (Physician’s Assistant), the last EGD results from June, preformed by the Resident, showed I had Intestinal Metaplasia.  Neither the resident or my old surgeon explained any of this to me, so I will admit I got scared until I talked to my nurse friend, whom explained it to me.  So the new doctor needs to confirm and treat it, if possible, before this gets worse.

This Week:  I see my family practice doctor.

She is going to do a complete blood panel and will now be working with my new surgeon to figure out what is happening to me.  The blood panel needs to be completed, since the PA also explained that neither my old surgeon, nor any of the residents had done a complete blood panel on me since 2009 and that if I am deficient in any vitamins, have mal-absorption or anemia, it could be contributing to my other symptoms.)

This Week:  I have to see my OB/GYN as well.

          Although they do not believe any of this is related, one of the

Resident’s CT Scans, showed I have a cyst on my ovary, which no one bothered to tell me about either, needless to say it needs to be checked out.