me oh my, celiacs, IBS and bears oh my, haunted forest?
finally have a diagnosis, to be confirmed, but it's stuck for two weeks, splenic flexure syndrome, explains everything, palpable lump that the surgeon palpated, saw, observed, said nothing, vagus nerve pinching symptoms that the surgeon, and others denied, palpable lump poking out of my tummy, visible, jokingly said, "look doc, facehugger" doctors totally ignored it, what four CTs, three endos, two barium swallows, one gastric empty, one ultrasound, samples, blood tests, workups, an EXPERT GI guy in el paso texas three hour drive, a dozen emergency room visits, plus worse things..., for a year, and a referral to mayo clinic in AZ, that is'nt contracted with humana, so..I finally figure it out, and it all fits, damn fucking idiot surgeons and GI docs?
I've been there! F-ing spleenic flexure syndrome. There used to be a medicine called Ilopam/Choline that was the only drug ever prescribed to treat Spleenic Flexure syndrome. Why it was taken off the market only God knows. Todays Dr.s are too stupid to address something so simple. I had dozens of tests, just to make the Docs rich. I have CIC or IBS-C, either way... I was on the 290 mcgs of Linzess and was doing O.K., but about 6 months ago it stopped working. Now I'm on Motegrity, prucalipride. It stimulates peristalsis. I'm not sure how it effects the spleenic flexure, but it makes you go, good. I wish you the best. C.