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Posted 3/20/2013 8:31 AM (GMT 0)
I have Ulcerative colitis. For the last month and a half I have been experiencing a pain in my left side about waist high. I have been in the hospital 10 days with this. I also had a high WBC count of up to 20,000 and fever up to 101.2. I have had a bunch of lab test and CTs. No one can find what is wrong with me. My GI will say on one visit that it is my UC and on the next visit the pain is too much for it to be my UC. He has flipped 3 times.


Can you have pain outside of joints because the pain in my side is not in a joint.

Thank you.
Posted 3/20/2013 1:37 PM (GMT 0)
The pain is actually in muscles, though it can feel like the joint. I hope you don't have it, but if you do, it can be lived with.

Good luck...

Hugs, Karen...
Posted 3/20/2013 3:24 PM (GMT 0)
If the pain is only in your abdomen and that is the only symptom you are reporting, then it doesn't sound like fibro.

I have UC/Crohns and fibro, and the pain associated with the two conditions is very different.
Posted 3/20/2013 4:17 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, Tedd.

Sorry for your pain. You've really been through the mill! Take a look at our first thread, Fibro 101. It will tell you a lot about Fibromyalgia, if you take some time to examine the different links. I can tell you that Fibro doesn't cause fevers and elevated white blood cell count.

Did a doctor suspect Fibro? Sometimes, even today, doctors will throw the word out there, just because they don't know what else to say...especially if they believe it's just a "wastebasket diagnosis." But it's far from that. It's a definite condition with definite symptoms.

We are here to help you, if we can. Good luck!

Debbie
Posted 3/20/2013 7:10 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, Sherrie, and welcome to the fibro forum.  I'm not a doctor but this doesn't sound like fibro to me.  You have pain in all four quandrants of your body with fibro.  I have Crohn's disease and that can cause problems with white blood counts and fevers so it could be your ulcerative colitis.  Or you might possibly have Crohn's.  I was diagnosed for 11 years with UC and then they discovered it was really Crohn's disease.  They are so similar.

 

I did a little googling and your appendix and gall bladder are on the right side but the pancreas is more on the left side.  My brother used to suffer from pancriatitis and had a lot of pain.  I'm absolutely just guessing here but it might be worth asking about.

 

Perhaps a second opinion would be in order.  Sometimes doctors can't see the forest for the trees.  After all, they are only human.  How many times have we looked for something and couldn't find it but someone else can and it was right in front of our faces all of the time!

 

Please to let us know what you find out because we really do care about you.

 

Sherrine

Posted 3/22/2013 9:44 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you everyone.
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