Expecting a week in hell!!!

[eddarun]

Ive been at the hospital for almost two days now, they have taken about 20 bloodsamples, uronsample, stool sample and I still have this explosive watery undigested food diarrhea and the doctors are clueless!  I having a ct scan done on friday, the doctors mentioned the c word and recimmended the scan! Im SO very very afraid.  How common is it that the doctors order a ct scan but it doesnt show anything? Am i hoping for a miracle?

[hypomom]

Pretty often. I'm surprised they didn't do a colonoscopy before the scan or in place of it though.

[Allochka]

Yep, such things happen pretty often. My boyfriend had a CT scan of spine some time ago, to check out his pains - it was OK, just minor things. Mom had a skin biopsy and abdominal ultrasound (in both cases docs recommended it, also manrioned worst case scenarios) - all was fine! So it does happen all the time. Docs simply need to check everything, they are doing their jobs. You' ll be all right!

[eddarun]

Thank you!!! That is what I really need to hear! I had a colonoscopy last week, it was clear so I guess I can rule out colon cancer.  And since small intestine cancer is SO rare and Im only 27, with no family history of cancer i guess the odds arent that big!

[mollyfin]

I once had a ct scan because the ultrasound thing in the ER was broken and instead of, you know, finding another one, they figured a contrast CT would do the job just as well.  I was not too pleased with that...especially because I was having a rare moment of health lucidity where I was like "I have the flu and a UTI, please give me antibiotics so I can go home!"

...so, yeah, they'll throw those at you for pretty much anything.  At your age it's highly unlikely to be anything sinister.  If I were the betting type I'd put money on you walking away with an IBS diagnosis.  They have to rule everything else out first, but it's what I would expect from your symptoms.