Tests results clear but still the same symptoms

Hello

Wondering if anyone has been through the same as me. Stressful 2021/22 with both my dad and sister being poorly, then March 2022 started having floating stools and also going lump in armpit. Mentioned both to GP - stools dismissed and armpit lump went through breast screening and all clear.

So went back to Gp about stools as still floating and getting more loose, did a Fit test and ordered bloods. In the mean time I developed severe abdominal pains and really lost stools going up to 8 times a day and nausea but no vomiting. Went to emergency drs and hospital said I had ovarian cyst and to be rescanned in three months. But the pain and diarrhoea still there so private referral to gastro who did Contrast CT scan - normal apart from sclerotic focus on one vertebrae which he said was a bone island - I have since questioned this and the radiologist is re looking at the scan.

fecal Elastase normal and still waiting for the calprotectin.

but I have lost nearly a stone in weight since May - I do have anxiety and wake up with a real jelly belly but all day pain, nausea and so tired then by the evening I am hungry and can eat a small dinner and snacks.
I am petrified that something has been missed, I am 47 female and have no quality of life at the moment as just feel

rotten all the time. I am scared I am going to die and leave my three amazing children with out a mum

and my wonderful husband without a wife.

I have started HRT and amitypyline at night but so far that ut

no diagnosis and I am

sure they think it's all in my head but the weight loss ??

thanks for reading xx

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Offline ProfBaw over 4 years ago

Weight loss can happen with anxiety. Like dramatic weight loss. I lost all my excess weight and more a few years ago with anxiety.
It's reassuring all tests have come back clear, so at least they're going through a process of elimination. If everything continues to come back clear there comes a point when you either have to accept the answers they're giving you or waste your life worrying about having your life wasted by a disease that's yet not been diagnosed. Either way, all your fears are already playing out as if you had something sinister as you're already not living your life.
If it helps any, I got given a few things for that anxiety and the only thing that worked, and worked well, was propranolol. Absolute godsend. Things got so bad when my wife was ill, I was destroying all my teeth with grinding at night. Had to spend 1000's on root canals etc. Don't let that anxiety get out of control.
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Offline ProfBaw over 4 years ago

Weight loss can happen with anxiety. Like dramatic weight loss. I lost all my excess weight and more a few years ago with anxiety.
It's reassuring all tests have come back clear, so at least they're going through a process of elimination. If everything continues to come back clear there comes a point when you either have to accept the answers they're giving you or waste your life worrying about having your life wasted by a disease that's yet not been diagnosed. Either way, all your fears are already playing out as if you had something sinister as you're already not living your life.
If it helps any, I got given a few things for that anxiety and the only thing that worked, and worked well, was propranolol. Absolute godsend. Things got so bad when my wife was ill, I was destroying all my teeth with grinding at night. Had to spend 1000's on root canals etc. Don't let that anxiety get out of control.
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