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**UPDATE** everything went really smoothly!! The anesthesia process was very easy I went to sleep right away and did wake up a bit disoriented haha. They found a 4 mm polyp in the sigmoid and removed it to be sent for pathology. They also took biopsies of the terminal illeium since that tends to be where I have abdominal pain, and lastly they found small internal hemorrhoids which is interesting because i’ve never had any bleeding down there.

This might sound totally dumb but I am a bit confused as to why they’re taking the polyp to be tested if it was removed? Is this just to see make sure it’s not cancerous?? I’m a little nervous for that but besides that I think everything else went well!

I 20f have dealt with stomach problems pretty much my whole life. I remember when I was in elementary school there was a point in my life—for about a year, where I just couldn’t keep food down, and to this day I don’t know why that happened but now as an adult I have emetophobia so hearing about the prep horror stories of throwing up from the taste I was pretty nervous😅

I went to the ER about 2 months ago after I woke up with the most awful pain on my lower right quadrant and thought it was my appendix. They did a CT scan and some bloodwork and only found that my iud was malpositioned. So I got that removed but the pain still persisted sometimes when i’d be constipated or after a meal (these are typically my symptoms along with straining, trouble passing gas, and as of recently, more mucus than normal in my stools) so then i got referred to a GI doctor.

I told him all of my symptoms and the history of issues my dad has with diverticulitis where he was having constant diarrhea to the pint where he had to get surgery, so he recommended a colonoscopy which I was grateful for since I didn’t have to practically beg for one because of my age haha.

I started my prep at noon today with 3 dulcolax pills in 2 hour intervals (9 total!!) all while drinking the 238g of miralax which I added lemon juice to that really helped with the flavor. Honestly it wasn’t that bad besides the headaches, and slight nausea, but by around 6 pm I was at the “clear” point and had finished the miralax mixture which was listed on the directions.

I am a little nervous for tomorrow since this is my first colonoscopy and procedure where I’ll have to be put under😬. I hope all goes smoothly, I’ve been seeing tiktoks that have honestly been scaring me but i’ve been trying to calm myself as best I can lol.

Get ready for this because it’s a long one😆:

I am 20F and lately for about 2 months I have been feeling constipated + bloated, dizzy, light headed, fatigue that is sometimes accompanied by shakiness, occasional chest pain, headaches, and blurry vision😩. I’m over it.

This next part is a little TMI— about 2 months ago on Feb 28 I woke up in the middle of the night after having sex with my partner because I had severe lower right quadrant pain, and when I went to the restroom to urinate it hurt even more that I had to stop as I went, it felt almost like someone’s was squeezing my insides really hard and more so when I peed. I didn’t immediately go to the er as I thought it would go away by the morning because I had work (super stupid and I ended up calling off anyways lol😅) which it did for the most part, and I would only feel pain when I put pressure on it.

I went to my pcp at my school campus that following Monday and she thought it could be kidney stones but I was worried it was my appendix (like duh) because my mom had appendicitis, so she ordered an ultrasound for both a couple days later (march 10th) at this ultrasound they checked for kidney stones and found nothing, but they didn’t check for appendix, which I didn’t know until I got these results back and read by my pcp on march 20th when she told me they only checked for kidney stones and nothing else because she “forgot” to mention my appendix (safe to say she’s not my pcp anymore). By this point the dizziness feeling and on and off chest pain had begun maybe a few days ago but it was very mild. So I went to urgent care that same day to ask about that, and they drew blood and said everything was normal, they also did an ekg because my chest had been hurting and said my heart rate had slight bradycardia but nothing of concern, however when I told the PA about my side pain that I had (but had for the most part subsided) she urged me to go to the er to check my appendix, so I did.

At the er they took my vitals once again and everything was normal and they did a CT scan to check all my lower organs and everything was normal as well except for my iud positioning which noted: “The uterus is retroflexed. There is an IUD in place. It is malpositioned. The IUD terminates at the level of the uterine body instead of the uterine fundus. Furthermore, it is tilted such that one of the arms extends into the anterior myometrium on image 84 of series 4 2 to or almost to the level of the serosa”. 😬Because besides that they didn’t find anything out of the ordinary they referred me to a GI doctor because I have been having tummy problems for about 3 years now where i’m constipated and bloated (not all the time but it has become more consistent).

Since then I have still been feeling dizzy, fatigued, and slightly shaky, along with the occasional chest pain, and when I went home for spring break my parents had me do a throurough physical to check for annemia, thyroid problems, etc but the results came back all normal except for slight but not concerning higher levels of bad cholesterol (my dad had cholesterol) they also prescribed me meclazine which somewhat helped with the dizziness but not really.

Because the doctor said the iud was malpositioned i decided to do research and found that some other reddit users were experiencing some of the same symptoms and got it taken out on March 30th but no difference.

I went to the er again on April 15th when I was feeling pretty bad dizziness and chest pain. They did an ekg again and everything was normal and they also did a pots test which was negative. They referred me to an ENT and prescribed me vistaril to help with the dizziness and chest pain and I took it for a couple of weeks but honestly it just made me really tired.

As of today I’ve already met with my ENT and had an ear exam where they checked my hearing and inner ear via some device that vibrated? They found nothing out of the ordinary and has now referred me to see a neurologist which I can’t see until january of NEXT YEAR🙄. I visited the GI where he gave me linzess to try and regulate my bowels which somewhat worked but I think the dose of 75 mg is too small, and I have a colonoscopy scheduled this Thursday and I’m scared for the worst after seeing some tiktoks which I probably shouldn’t have haha (note: my dad had diverticulitis some years back). I also followed up with my new pcp about 2 weeks ago and told him everything i’ve written here and he actually suggested the vagus nerve before I did and thinks that it could all be due to the inflammation of my stomach from not using the bathroom, and that night of really bad pain essentially “triggering” it and offsetting everything else.

Idk guys i’m just really tired of dealing with this. I feel exhausted all the time, my body feels heavy, especially my right arm and both legs, i’m always constipated, I get dizzy when I work out, my vision feels weird?? like a camera that randomly goes slightly out of focus, I feel brain fog, and get headaches and no one seems to be able to give me answers.😕

Oh another thing to note— this actually happened to me when I was like 13?? Where I felt dizzy and had stomach problems where an ultrasound revealed trapped gas. I also got diagnosed with vertigo via a standing test with my eyes closed. And around the same time I couldn’t keep food down after I ate but it eventually went away with some natural herbal supplement pills that my dad got from a Mexican holistic healer.

Also if you read this far thank you!! 😊