Hello, been awhile very sick. Seems an hour or two after I eat in excruciating pain. I've tried many altered diets, but it doesn't seem to matter what I eat or drink, the pain comes. I've lost 65 pounds in the past year. I was hospitalized in Feb for two weeks, several tests reveal nothing. They said go home and eat, take pain meds, come back and maybe something will present itself. So I did, got worse. In May, back in the hospital again, more tests, nothing. No intake for several days, then tried to have soup, yogurt, and pureed food, still pain but pain medications offset. After three weeks, home again. Worse. My son-in-law came 2 hours to drive me back downtown Toronto where the initial total was done 3 years ago and recent tests and hospital stays. Sunday night to ER. X-ray said +++stool in there. Which I don't understand because all I've had is yogurt, lactose-free milk, and gastrolyte for the past twelve days. Less active in stoma and did see some rice and residual food from what I ate 10 days prior. Took diovol for gas which just brought more water through. So at the hospital, the resident doctor said the head doctor looked at all the tests I had done, you're constipated, gave me lactulose, and discharged me. I couldn't believe it. This was not an isolated incident. It's been going on for a year. The pain is unbearable. I can't eat or drink without severe pain. You give me lactulose and discharge me before seeing if it even works! Lactulose not working two days later, pain worse, and it seems I have no recourse. In bed with a heating pad, taking pain meds and anti-nausea meds. I used to get a break in the morning because I would try to eat around 2, then a couple of hours later, pain, back in bed, sometimes so bad I can't even breathe, still pressure pain in bladder not working right yet no infection. I'm at the end of my ropes with constant suffering and frustration, feeling like I have no one to help me. I tried to tell them I think it's adhesions, but they are not willing to investigate. Can't live like this. Please help.
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