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Any doctor there?

Please help me. Sorry, it’s a long story.

I have pain in the left side while sitting or lying. Pain is mostly exactly and exclusively in the Left hypochondrium. I do not have pain or acid sensation in my throat. Can it be just acid reflux, that way? Why now? (Well I suppose anyone might be asking that question)

Partial blood analysis showed only:

Erithrocyts-hemoglobin: 16,2 g/dl Normal range: 13-16
Lymphocytes q: 31.1 % NR: 36-56
Monocytes q: 11.4 % NR: 3.1-8
Monocytes C: 0.92 x10^9/L NR: 0.2-0.8
Blood analysis don’t show iron, calcium or vitamins levels. Except b12, for which they seem normal.
At the time of the analysis I was only taking folic acid, which really seemed to do some good for me.

My body reaction was not so good at upper endoscopy. So they could just be there for some 1.5 min aprox. There was still some food (after 8 hours, having drunk 4.5 hours before), but apparently, they could see that my lower esophageal sphyncter wasn’t closing well. But they remarked, for my pain, that, well, there was no dammaged tissue at all in there (I was just taking “aloe vera” stuff 10 days before the endoscopy).

Stool analysis (3 consecutive samples) showed no parasites.

X-rays showed nothing remarquable.

A kind of rapid “photo-echography” didn’t seem to show any anormality either.

No weight loss.

Medication is the most amazing thing. I was given omeprazole, then pantoprazole, they don’t seem to work so much. The ONLY three things that relieve me are three:
-Aluminium (antacid)
-Food. It seems i can not have an empty stomach. When I eat some consistent thing, pain goes away for moments about 40-60 %
-Anti-inflammatory (ibuprofen). That’s amazing. Makes the pain go completely away. I just toke at 1200 mg (600 + 600) daily. I can not see myself taking that medication any longer (it’s just for pain relief?), so I stopped after 3 days.

Now, my medication is pantoprazole 40 once daily (which seems to do a bit more than nothing), and eating every 3 hours (I need to do it almost every hour) and aluminium antacids (3 – 5) per day, both of which helping me a lot. So I can manage to go on, even if sleeping only 5 hours (I used to sleep at least 8 hours, only ibuprofen helped me to do so again)

The pain started gradually 7 months ago when I was waking. First doctors asked wether it broked my sleep and I said no. I had the pain, and a kind of numbness in the left area which mantained me awake. At the very beginning, I had also strong bruxism. And at the very beginning too, I was feeling very tired. I tried to sleep more and more in order to recover, but it was impossible.
Now I don’t have the bruxism any more, while it is impossible for me to sleep more than 5 hours (when I’m lucky). Pain was there every morning, until i coldn’t sleep more than 1 hour. That’s still happening today, when I’m not taking any meds when I’m trying to sleep on after my 5 hours sleep (I even wake up every 5 minutes with pain).
As said, pain was there, but also when I was sitting, just there in the left hypochondrium (after what doctors said), I think more or less in the spleen area. But it seems to be a radiating pain.
Almost no pain when standing, just discomfort, or a sort of “residual pain”.

Before the pain:
Allways having had some degree of dorsal discomfort as well as upset stomach related to that fact. I used to wake up, move my back rightwards, hear a little “click” and feel like my blood flowing again into that stomach area. The morning the pain didn’t go away, I did the same mouvement but instead of a relieving effect, I was feeling as if I could have hurt myself by the straining. So, I just stopped in the middle of the mouvement and tried to rest, but the pain didn’t go away (just when standing).

Just before the pain started i was for 20 days and for the first time in my life in Dominican Republic. Where I have had 5 days of bloody diarrhea. I eated everything there (I mean people’s and “street sellers” food). I also ate raw pork, I mean salty raw pork which is very common in Spain (jamon). I felt bad those days, but I cann’t remember if I could have had some fever. Then diarrhea stopped

About the time that happenned. I was also stupidly hitted inside a metropolitan bus. The bus just went over a great bump while I was standing distracted, and I could really hear a “crack” in my back, in my dorsal, problematic, area. I was scared for some seconds, but, at least standing, I couldn’t feel any special pain in my back. That accident and the situation of the pain brought me to ask the doctors if I could possibly have my diaphragma dammaged. But they said it was a very inusual thing to happen, so that i could just be overstimulating the pain because of the anxiety. But what
finally happened was that finally antacids relieved my morning asthma and cough, them both being indeed what made me thing about that last possibility.

Even if I’m writing almost like a child, I’m 36 years old and living in Spain. What happens is that I’m so very tired of the situation.
Every morning I wake up, and then I try to imagine (eating meanwhile) that I finally have finally the situation under control. Then work and, in the night, bed time comes.
The pain has been sometimes so excruciating that I thoght that I really couldn’t go on. It’s not psychological, but physical, and I can’t control it. As for instance, one morning I was crossing the road and a car run very quickly near me. I thought inconsciently that if the car had overun me, the pain would be then over (which is false). I couldn’t avoid that thinking because I was experiencing so much pain then.

Thank you for your patience.
Thank you so much for reading it indeed
Helicobacter breath test turned out negative.
It was not possible to take a biopsy during endoscopy.
Thank You