Hi Amanda: We start to wean off Hydrocodone today. All Doctors agree should. They think I may improve, but they are not convinced that is causing my stomach pain, but could definitely making it worse. At the moment, at least two of them suspect a vascular issue. When I had my Nuclear Stress Test and they injected the Adenosine to make my heart beat faster, the pain in my stomach was excruciating. At first because I was yelling and kicking my feet from the pain they thought I was having a heart attack, but the Dr immediately looked at the EKG and it was all normal. Since the pain was below my heart and was in my upper stomach, technically it's not heart related. We are going to either go to the UT Southwestern Diagnosis Hospital and let them start with vascular tests and go from there, or go to a vascular surgeon first and then to UTSW if it's not vascular. My MD and pain DR are suspecting Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia after learning of this episode. If this is truly the issue, not sure we'd ever have found it if not for the heart tests. At this point I'm actually hoping I have this illness so I can get treatment and get back to life. Thanks again for all your advice!