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Hi @garyann2554, welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I’m so sorry to hear how much your husband has been suffering. It sounds like this has become much more than an occasional discomfort, especially with the significant weight loss, severe pain, difficulty eating and drinking, constipation, and not being able to sleep because of the pain.

I’d like to invite @musicbart back into the discussion in case they have an update since starting this conversation.

While members can share their own experiences, the symptoms you describe sound significant. If your husband is rapidly losing weight, unable to eat or drink comfortably, or his pain is worsening despite treatment, I would encourage contacting his healthcare team again as soon as possible, or seeking urgent medical evaluation if the pain is severe or he cannot keep food or fluids down.

Has he had any recent imaging, such as a CT scan, or has he been evaluated by a gastroenterologist? Knowing what testing has already been done may help members share experiences that are more relevant.

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@jlharsh my husband went to the gastroenterologist specialist doctor a few times and he also had a colonoscopy and endoscopy and they said that there's nothing they can do for him anymore and did not make any more appointments for him. He's rapidly losing weight, can't sleep, is eating very little to nothing and it's even painful to drink liquids, when he was 20 years old he was in a moped accident and the handlebars crushed his chest in and he has a tumor and the center of his chest and a fatty tumor on the side of his chest. I think this was the start of splenic Flexure syndrome and for some reason and the last 8 months has gotten tremendously worse.