Chronic Pain

WARNING: If you don't want to know the details of my weird body don't read any further.



I woke up a couple of weeks ago on a Wednesday morning in extreme pain from my shoulders to my knees. I could barely walk, couldn't stand up straight, was super nauseated, and felt like my organs were swollen.

I took a bunch of Ibuprofen, and that took the edge off so that I could get through the day. By Friday the severity of the pain had decreased to just below my belly button to just below my hips. My abdomen swelled so huge that I couldn't wear my normal pants, and I had to go shopping to get some pants that I could wear comfortably. Since then the pain has gotten a lot more manageable (thank goodness), and the swelling in my abdomen has decreased, although I still can't wear my pants.

I had an x-ray the following Monday and then an ultra sound the next day. The ultra sound showed some large cysts, but they couldn't tell where they were at so they ordered a ct scan.

The ct scan showed a large mass of cysts on the right side moving over into the left side. It's big enough that it shoved my intestines up towards my ribs and part of my colon is almost completely closed off.  So, I have to use stool softeners (lovely), and am back to an easy to digest food diet (lame).

They can't tell where the cysts are coming from though, because most of my organs are hidden by the large mass of cysts.

I have an appointment with a specialist in December. I'm hoping that the cysts are the normal kind that will go away on their own. So far they haven't seemed to get any better.

Now my pain is just in a few spots in my pelvis/abdomen area, and it usually feels like something is pushing out of my body. The pain gets worse when I've walked/moved around a lot, and it hurts pretty bad to sit up normally. But, I can do all the things I need to do, so that's good.