possible crohns? or worse?

First off my symptoms cover so many areas...

Ok here goes the history...

At the age of 17 I one day started to feel very fatigued to the point where I would wake up and still be tired.

I got really bad stomach pains, it feels like my abdominal area is inflamed 90% of the day.

So at age 19 or so I went to the DR. and the took stool samples...all were negative. They diagnosed me with IBS. I told them I had coffee ground looking spots in my stool....for example if I wipe it looks like maybe 5-10 small pinhead black spots mixed in with the stool.

I accepted the IBS excuse.

I started getting acid reflux about 8-10 years ago.

about thirty days ago my throat became swollen and it seemed like food was being stuck in my chest....I have chest pain off and on and a persistent pain under both arms...(armpits) as well as my chest and lung area.

I have a pretty big loss of appetite also and have small burps after every swallow of liquid but not food. I also burp when I wake up, and when I take my morning pill it feels like it gets stuck in my chest.
Again all these symptoms are new.

I don't smoke, never have and I don't drink. I am 366 lbs, so obese, have been NY entire life.

So now I'm 33 and I have been taking tums to start (3 years) moved up to pepcid(7 years) moved up to a 24 day course of nexium and now today is my first day of prilosec as per my doctor.

I have a colonoscopy and endoscopy in 8 days from today.


I have been tested for major STDs including aids....blood tests to test liver function kidney function and basic blood levels....all were fine.

I have had multiple EKGs done...all fine. Chest xray about 7 months ago...fine.

Now when I went back to my doctors office I saw a new doctor and he said that the coffee grind stool is not normal for IBS and that the other doctor gave me a "junk diagnosis" because the tests that they did back then came back clean and because I was so young.

So at this point I'm feeling like I've been medically underserved for years.

Cancer runs rampant in my family, especially GI.


I'm afraid. I can't stop thinking that this whole time I have had cancer and it spread, or I have had a issue that went untreated for so long and it eventually turned Into cancer.

I feel like my life is crumbling and that 8 days can't come soon enough so I can learn my fate.

Welcome to the forum, ImWorried. Rango is right. Hang in there. Most of us on the Crohn's forum have stories similar to yours. I'm sure you don't have cancer but I'm glad you're getting scoped now.