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Tests results clear but still the same symptoms

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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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    Thank you for your replies, I have now been told that the latest fecal result is within normal range as well. I am to have a colonoscopy in a couple of weeks, as loose stools are still a feature of my morning, numerous times. I am sure anxiety is playing a huge part even if something else is going on. I think if I didn't have the back, tummy pains and the low lying nausea I would be able to take more comfort from the results. I have convinced myself there is something more sinister like pancreatic cancer going on. 

    I do need to take note of the results so far but as my fathers issue was due to missed medical issues by his consultants at the hospital, it has made me very on edge. Especially as they have just said the results are coming back good but they haven't offered a diagnosis as yet. 
    I am also concerned about the sclerotic focus on my spine as although they consultant at the face to face appointment was very convincing in that it was a bone island, one of those things a CT scan can show up, on his letter to the GP he put most probably representing a bone island - so what's the alternative ?

    many thanks for your replies 
     

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    Thank you for your replies, I have now been told that the latest fecal result is within normal range as well. I am to have a colonoscopy in a couple of weeks, as loose stools are still a feature of my morning, numerous times. I am sure anxiety is playing a huge part even if something else is going on. I think if I didn't have the back, tummy pains and the low lying nausea I would be able to take more comfort from the results. I have convinced myself there is something more sinister like pancreatic cancer going on. 

    I do need to take note of the results so far but as my fathers issue was due to missed medical issues by his consultants at the hospital, it has made me very on edge. Especially as they have just said the results are coming back good but they haven't offered a diagnosis as yet. 
    I am also concerned about the sclerotic focus on my spine as although they consultant at the face to face appointment was very convincing in that it was a bone island, one of those things a CT scan can show up, on his letter to the GP he put most probably representing a bone island - so what's the alternative ?

    many thanks for your replies 
     

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