I posted in the abdominal forum last week and got some responses, but I'm now swaying more towards this being bone related.
A brief summary:
I noticed that my abdomen looked somewhat distended, nothing too unusual because I get random bouts of bloating with my birth control. I stressed over it a little bit though as I worried that I was pregnant. I did two tests and they were both negative and the bloating seemed to go down for a little bit.
Fast forward a week and I am suddenly constipated, which is nothing new as I have IBS, but I started to worry that there was a connection and I was having cramps/pains too. I bought some magnesium based capsules that are supposed to cleanse your colon. Right after taking these I began having loose stools that seemed dark and I began panicking that I was bleeding. I went to my doctor and he did a blood test and a breath test for a stomach ulcer and I'm still waiting for those to come back. Since then I've still had loose stools (not AS loose as they were) but the stools have become lighter/a normal colour again so I'm not worried about any internal bleeding now.
The pain has continued. It has been every day and it starts on my left side, right below my bottom left rib and travels towards my naval, and is also in my back, right below my ribs and close to my spine. When I prod around my abdomen I don't FEEL any tenderness at all, really, but prodding at my bowels will prompt me to go to the bathroom sometimes. Of course I've been sat Googling everything and everywhere is telling me I have Ovarian-Colon-Pancreatic-Stomach cancer and I should be writing my will, but my symptoms were just not adding up. Today I've been experiencing pain higher up my left rib cage, closer to my breast.
That's when I found someone talking about costochondritis. They were saying that they were finally diagnosed with that after having severe abdominal pain for weeks and they were having diarrhea from prodding around at their abdomen and getting anxious about it.
Last year, at around the same time, I was repeatedly going to my doctor about abdominal and chest pains I was having (I couldn't even lift my arm) and I was finally diagnosed with a rotated rib cage. The pain went away when it began to get warmer. These pains I'm having now have only come about since the cold weather came in too, and I have been waking up with sore knees, hips and the joints in some of my fingers are also very sore. I decided to see if my pain lined up with the 'pain areas' for costochondria and I discovered that my left lower rib is suddenly very mobile and is very tender, and it doesn't actually seem to be my stomach or bowels that are where this pain is radiating from. I have already been diagnosed with hypermobility, TMJ and arthritis, so does this sound like it could be related or due to costochondria? Could the weather be causing these symptoms? If I sleep with two blankets on, making myself toasty in the night, I will wake up completely fine and the pain will get worse later in the day. The other day the weather was very nice and quite warm and I had next to no symptoms all day, and I have only right this second realised the possible connection.
Any one got any theories or advice here?