Hello everyone,

I am in my mid 30's. I would consider myself a moderate drinker with a couple of very bad hangovers a year. I have been prediabetic since my 20's. I eat a high fat low carb diet normally.

I have always been healthy but this year my life changed. I began experiencing loose stools in December with oil in the toilet bowl. In January it got worse with various colors, yellow, brown, black. Undigested bits of food. Increased amounts of oil in the toilet bowl. I have been tested for parasites and food poisoning - all negative. At the end of January I was unable to eat because food made me gag and belch and I began having nightly symptoms. I was going to sleep and within an hour of falling asleep I would wake up in a sweat so bad my shirt was soaked with my stomach grumbling and on fire. My temperature would drop to 95 degrees - and I had to use heating pads to get my temperature back up. I had urges to evacuate all the food eaten during the day several times over night.

I have had
a colonoscopy (one polyp found)
an endoscopy (nothing found)
a CT with contrast (nothing found)
Lipase normal
Elastase normal
Full bloodpanel/workup normal
an MRCP without contrast - resulted in a slight signal dropout in the liver and pancreatic parenchyma suggestive of "mild iron deposition" which can be seen in cases of primary hemosiderosis. No lesions, no ductal dialation.
Tested for iron in blood - normal
SIBO - negative

The nightly symptoms have since gone away after two rounds of antibiotics from a tooth issue. Once the inflammation was gone I was left with stabbing pain in my left rib and just above my belly button. When there is no stabbing pain there is a feeling of having something lodged under my rib. There is always pain, sometimes it's mild aching. Other times it's stabbing, throbbing, I have felt shooting pains across my rib from the front to the back rib. Pins and needles, crawling and itching. My stool has stopped being loose and oily now four months later but it's pale, yellow/tan colored and bulky. Recently I have had bouts of constipation. The only time I do not feel these sensations is when I am exercising and the bloodflow is increased.

I am scheduled for a fecal fat test, an additional elastase test and a hydascan.

No answers as to what the "deposition" is on my liver or pancreas - I am being told I have IBS and to monitor my symptoms in journal.

Is this pancreatitis? My gastro team is declining to do further imaging on the pancreas because of the blood work and elastase being normal.
What else should I be pressing them to do? How can I convince them this isn't as simple as "IBS" and why are they ignoring my MRCP results!?