Question: Lower left abdominal pain, hasradiated to bck,anemia,slightly elevated WBC,night sweats, exhaustion,dark stools,irregular bowel movements,contant urge for ice (5LB's per day),pain is worse as bladder fills, urge to deficate with no results

At first my Dr. said it might be diverticulitis but no evidence was shown on CT. Then he refferred me to a surgen because he thought it was adhesions. The surgeon said unless my bowel is constricted it is pointless to remove all of the adhesions as they will just grow back. In light of my other symptoms she said I needed a colonoscopy which is schedualed for Monday w/ edoscopy. I'm concerned that this is the beginnig or later stages of colon cancer. It is prevalant in my family and there is an increased risk because of the Ruen Y, from what I breifly read. The exaustion is so severe that I'm having a hard time functioning. I can't have intercoarse either because it makes the pain worse.

You were right, I have chronic gastritis, well let's go back to Saturday, my pain was at an 8-9 ( I consider labor 10) The pain had spread throughout my abdomen and I could not eat solid foods. The ER doctoter gave me morphene while there then sent me home with a prescription for 5mg loratabs which didn't even touch the pain. I did my bowel prep on Sunday exactly as they told me and thought I was completely cleared out. I was in so much pain when I got there I begged the Dr. to admit me or send me straight to the ER afterwards because I couln't control the pain and was getting the dry heaves from it. He woke me up and said that my colonoscopy was fine besides hemoroids an a large amount of fecal matter still in my bowel. He wants me to get a upper GI and a small bowel series but they couldn't schedual it for a week. I don't know what to do. I take suboxone or an addiction I formed to methadone after back surgery and have been in recovery ever since with a very strong program and when this started I made the decision not to ask for pain meds until the pain reached a nine, I held out a month and a half. So dreading the thought of having to wait one more week in this kind of pain I asked him to please prescibe me something and he said no because I had a hystory. So I get home and call my primary and told him what was going on, he said no also. Now I thought I did the right thing by waiting until the pain was unbearable and from the 12 step literature I've read several times and also in the big book it says doctor's should treat pain accordingly in a close and careful manner as uncontrolled/untreated pain may cause a relapse. Even I know that you can treat an addict for pain if you have them come in to count there pills or only prescribe 3 days at a time with refills then ween back off. I got up the strenght I could to see my suboxone DR./Addiction specialist and told him what was going on and he was not suprised but disappointed as he said psychiatric patients, addicts and alchoholics get swept under the rug when it comes to complaints of pain. He told me to take a few suboxone at a time as they help with pain while he tries to reach my DR. to discuss treating the pain verses me treating it myself. That was this morning, I just got back from the ER a little while ago, I told them I don't feel like I can take this anymore and asked them not to give me any meds but to try and get me those two tests tonight. The general consensus seems to be adhesions but they said they have to rule out everything else before taking me to surgery. I know that everyday that passes until a diagnosis it's going to get worse or something irreversible will come of it. How do I expidite a diagnosis and express to them the urgency of the situation without them thinking Ihave a psychiatric issue.