What is wrong with me???

I've been having "stomach" issues for over 3 years. I went to my doctor and he refered me to a GI. She didn't seem very interested in my complaints of intense pain and frequent D (I also have a continuous pain in my sternum on the right side). She felt around my stomach and suggested an endoscopy. Celiac disease was ruled out. I then had a barium x-ray done. Nothing was found. I have  intense pain in my whole stomach after I eat a meal, followed by cramping and waiting on the toilet for 20 minutes to have a BM the it would be nothing but D. Sometime the D would start until 8 hours after I have eaten. Other times I would have a BM immediatly after the pain started. I have lost 40 lbs (not complaining) but I have done nothing to lose the weight other than not eating when I'm at work or not eating if I am away from my own home. The GI started me on Dicetel but it didn't really do much for me. The reason that I came across the forum is two weeks ago I had really bad cramping and for two days I was having 10+ BMs a day that were nothing but blood. Bright red blood. I was extremely bloated and the pain in my chest was worse than it had ever been. I went to emergency and they took my blood. It showed that I had elevated white blood cell count. I mentioned to the er doc that my white blood cell count has been on the high side for the last three years (I have had my blood taken over 15 times in the last three years). He order a CT scan for the next day. The scan showed that my colon was inflamed. He suspected UC. He gave me a prescription for Asacol and scheduled me to have a colonoscopy with a surgeon. The Asacol helped immediately, The bloating went down and the pain was lessened. I saw my own doc the next week and got a prescription for more Asacol. He said that he also suspected UC. I went in for the colonoscopy and I recieved the results from the surgeon today. He said that he did not see anything. He said that there was no indication of Crohn's or UC. He said that he had no explanation for my D or my pain. After the trip to the er I started reseaching UC and found this site. I had read so many post and could relate with what other people had described but now I am so confused. I am angry that I was diagnosed with not having UC because now I don't know what else to do. Bad news is better than no news to me at this point, Could it still be UC? Has anyone else been given a clean colonoscopy and later diagnosed with UC? Any input or advise is greatly appreciated as I am pretty much out of ideas and have come to the point that I have lost all hope of finding out what is wrong with me. Thanks for listening to my rant.                                                                                                                                                       

The results of the biopsies showed no abnormalities. I don't know what that means and I didn't think to ask because I was so shocked that he had found nothing wrong with me. He just said that he doesn't know why I'm having problems but then again he is just a surgeon not a GI.

Are you still having diarrhea and bleeding or are you in remission right now? If you are in remission, then your GI might not be able to see anything, especially if your flare with mild or didn't last long. My second flare was quite severe, yet my GI said the flare left no scar tissue. If you aren't in remission, then you need to see another GI if this one isn't willing to try to find out what's wrong with you.

I'm kind of confused as to why your GI prescribed medicine for you without doing a colonoscopy to make a diagnosis. And then you stated that a surgeon did the colonoscopy. Why didn't your GI do the colonoscopy? Or am I misreading your post, and the surgeon is a GI?

I'd find a new GI.

I ditto getting in to see a new GI.

I would suggest, however, that you get a copy of the colonoscopy pathology report.

Nothing wrong to one may be a red flag to another.

quincy