Question: My husband is having pain in the upper left abdomen just below his ribs, he has been running a low grade fever for over a month. 1 day after blood tests from our GP he was in a motorcycle,auto accident where he flew off his bike, bounced off the roof of a car and landed on the asphalt 3/3/16. He was taken to emergency and released mid day. Amazingly he had no severe symptoms, broken bones, just a couple cuts and bruises and very sore. He had MRIs and Cat scans of all the potential injury areas, head, knee, right hand. He has had gout his whole life and the trauma caused him to get it in his left foot and knee agravating the pain, making walking without crutches almost impossible. He has seen a specialist for the knee who drained fluid and injected cortizone this week. He also started a blood pressure medicine in march due to high blood pressure flagged at the dentist. 200/90 a little over a month ago. I took him to emergency because it was a Friday night and he took a blood pressure medication. the GP started him on a blood pressure med that started severe diarrhea which has yet to stop. He switched 2 weeks later to Amlodipiine 10 mg but has had a low grade fever and severe diarrhia , cramping and blood in stools and urine showed up on the blood tests. He had been diagnosed with Crohn's and or ulcerative colitus after a heart attack in 2005 in which they gave him a stent. He had a nervous breakdown in 2013, probably due to all the medications he was taking for the Crohns including pentasa, humira, hydrocodone and ambien because he couldn't sleep. He attempted suicide with an overdose of ambient and they flushed him in the ambulance and hospital with charcoal. After that incident he got off all meds except indomethacin for gout for 3 years and had no crohns symptoms. He is 66 years old on monday and had no history of Crohns in his younger years. The GP sent him for a prostrate biopsy with ciproflaxin taken for 3 days which aggravated all the GI symptoms even more and gave him a steroid pack which temporarily helped the knee and just prescribed cholestyramine 4g, and antibiotics which he stopped this week because he now has acid reflux at night and pain in his upper left abdomen. My guess from researching is his body is toxic due to all these medications and that either the blood pressure medicines or the indomethacin is inflaming his intestines. In the back of my mind I am worried maybe they missed an internal injury to his spleen or pancreas? Not sure what Dr. to send him to next, heart doctor for questions about the blood pressure medications or a gastroenterologist for the stomache symptoms.
thank you, we do not seem to have access to really caring and thorough Drs here in Las Vegas NV, it is very frustrating. I have the blood test results I could send also. The biopsy came out negative for Cancer- his prostrate level was only 6.

Thank you, it takes weeks to get appointments here especially if you are a new patient. do you have any advice about the diarrhea, can he take over the counter meds for that or will it just aggravate the situation? I am not sure our insurance will cover the camera procedure are there alternative ways to diagnose?