Pain in lower right abdomen

[andrea2289]

Hi Shelley! How are you?

I am still following your advice and finding it very helpful!
If I do the oil everyday, I am fine, but if I miss even one day things stop again and it takes me a few days to get back on track. I finally found a great doctor, can you believe it? He is a GI/Liver Specialist. Although he isn’t 100% convinced with some of the things I say, at least he is open-minded not condescending.

OK, I have been having lower right quadrant pain for about a month. It comes and goes and lasts anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour. The pain is very localized right over my appendix. It is usually pretty sharp, not excruciating but it’s enough to make me very uncomfortable. The area is almost always tender and sometimes even seems swollen. My gut feeling is that it is something bowel related because I have been breaking out pretty bad, which hasn’t happened in along time and worsened significantly in the last month. I have been very moody/emotional lately. The pain is worse when I am sitting and I hear/feel a lot of gurgling/bubbling right over the area when it is not hurting.

CT scan showed lots of stool at the cecum and ascending colon. I took Oxypowder last night and released a lot, but the pain is still there today. It also showed a Kidney stone but it is still up in my kidney (great huh…I guess I get to look forward to passing that lol). Appendix looked fine on the scan as well. And there were no signs of cysts on the ovaries either.

So, I am at a loss and I think the doctor is too. He suggested a colonoscopy next week but, in the meantime, I though I’d see what your thoughts are and I will discuss it with him Tuesday.

Thanks Shelley!!

[shelley]

If you always require extra oil for proper bowel movements with no improvement over time, then there's still something wrong in addition to the deficiency of oils. You're either truly deficient in bile, due to blockage, stones or defunct gallbladder, or your intestines are really ballooned or strictured somewhere. Or because of being deficient for so long, something went wrong that still needs fixing.

Either way, finding out exactly what happened is good. A clear colonoscopy won't necessarily prove nothing is wrong, but it's best to check.

Constant pain and swelling is not good, that needs to get resolved as quickly as possible. When you know exactly what it is - small intestine, large intestine (probably)gallbladder, then we can discuss approach. Just don't let them talk you into surgery unless you're in danger of sepsis.

Hope that helps!