Hello all my name is Jim and I'm 47 years old, please take the time to read my story, it has a lot of detail as I'm not sure what is or isn't completely relevant. About 2 or 3 years ago I noticed that certain greasy foods were giving me quite severe stomach pains while I was eating them (Macdonalds , Kfc , burgers and kebabs , you get the idea, all the wholesome foods lol). I done nothing about it for ages then in June 2015 I visited my GP about it, who thought I was getting acid reflux and prescribed Lansoprazole. I didn't go along with it and the tablets didn't help anyway. The only other health issue I have is a lifetime problem with psoriasis , which at times has been very severe (medical journal type severity)
On the evening of the 17th July 2015 I got some weird indigestion pain when I ate, this happened again the next day too I went to Chase Farm hospital the following day with these weird upper abdominal pains in front and back . They done an ECG found nothing wrong and let me go. That evening I was DJ'ing a friends wedding , while I was sitting there taking it easy , the pain would disappear and move to the extreme left back , then central , it would move around, all left side or slightly left of centre front and back but never in more than one place at a time. The moving pain made me realise that it wasn't my heart that was causing pain.
The next day gain I got a nervous twitch in my left hand then pains started again, I went to North Middlesex hospital this time. While waiting to be seen I got severe pins and needles in arms and legs and severe numbness in limbs that I could hardly walk. Anyway got finally seen, ECG, bloods all normal, because of numbness done brain ct scan found nothing wrong, the doctor asked me have you got any other symptoms , I said something stupid and almost seemed irrelevant at the time but hindsight may prove this not to be so insignificant , I said my eyes hurt in the wind (hindsight possible suggests dry eyes). I was released , went home went to sleep, when I woke all was well( no numbness or anything like that). I noticed also some hoarseness in my voice that same day, again trivial but possibly relevant.
Fast forward now to August 20th, I got a pain in my left hand side back all of a sudden , for some reason I also lost my appetite too , I was on holiday the next week in Paris , I struggled to eat much and kept getting these pains from upper chest to abdomen , front and back but all left side, on the evening of the 25th I went to a hospital near Notre Dame cathedral . Chest X-ray , bloods and. ECG later nothing was found and I was released . The next day I had pins and needles all day, which only disappeared when I went to sleep the following night, before that however I finally managed to eat a substantial meal, the next morning the diarrhea started , initially lasting non stop 5 days, only stopping with Imodium , since that day late in August I have not been 8 days without diarrhea, even when I'm not with diarrhea my stools are strange looking , often pale , often rough and fluffy and sometimes float. Prior to all this I'd suspected that the pains may well have been Fibromyalgia , however the gastrointestinal problems had taken priority.
To keep this brief I've had countless blood tests , stool tests an abdominal ultra sound and abdominal CT scan. With only a stool test indicating inflammation showing anything wrong.
Anyway I've got a few scans coming up but I have accumulated another couple of weird symptoms in the meantime. I keep getting a hot flush and sometimes a cold feeling in the back of my right ankle. Also when I'm eating food (any food not just greasy) on some days I get a burning type pain near my breast bone like I used to get of old but this is accompanied by a much more severe pain to the right just below rib level which is also a burning type pain. The food would hardly have left my mouth when this 2nd pain happens, some days it's really bad and scary other days it's non existent .
Also in the mean time the pains have migrated to both sides of my body as high as my neck and throat and as low as my legs and hips.
I have so much more detail and theories and questions to ask but this the story as brief as I could make it . I have omitted details of brain fog , dizziness , confusion , depression and anxiety which have all happened since late August 2015. Please give me your opinion.