Severe Abdominal Pain

For the second time in less than 10 days, I have woken up at 3am with SEVERE abdominal pain, back pain, nausea and diarrhea. The first time it lasted about 30 minutes and then just suddenly the pain went away. This time, I finally gave in and went to the ER at 6:30am. All of my vitals came back fine except that my liver enzyme was incredibly high at over 200 (normal range around 40 I believe). I was just tested for liver enzyme in April and it was in normal range (this was pre-lyme). I am still feeling the stomach and back pain now as I type, though not as severe as 3am last night.

I have been off antibiotics and just on supplements for almost exactly a month now. Has anyone else experienced this type of abdominal pain while off antibiotics? Of course I think it could be lyme related but the ER doctors think it could be more related to the heavy use of antibiotics for 8 weeks. They also did an ultrasound to check my gallbladder and kidneys and everything came back clear.

All I know is, I have never felt abdominal pain like this before. I definitely have not been watching my diet since being off antibiotics so I am going to get back on that.

I just feel at a bit of a crossroads. I feel my options are, 1.) it could be lyme related in which case should I contact my LLMD and reconsider antibiotics? But at the same time, 2.)I worry this is post antibiotic related in which case I would only be making things worse. I do have oral thrush which has not gone down as much as I would have wanted just being off antibiotics. I am sure my gut was damaged a bit through that 8 weeks, 4 of them in which i was on 3 antibiotics at a time.

Girlie said...
Have you continued to take probiotics for your gut?


Since you have thrush...you may need to take something for Candida...

Yes, I have continued to take probiotics daily. 112 billion a day, sometimes I also take the ones to prevent C. Diff as well.

What is interesting is, I have mentioned my oral thrush to two doctors now, an integrative doctor I saw a couple of weeks ago, and this morning to the E.R. doctor. I keep expecting them to mention Candida and offer something for it, yet neither of them have batted an eye at it.

I am seeing my PCP in a week for a follow up liver enzyme test to see if the levels go down. I am going to mention it to her as well, so that will make a 3rd.

Notime4lyme said...
What supplements are you taking? Some supplements can be hard on your liver. I don't know what would cause your liver enzymes to get really high all of a sudden like that though. Maybe a GI doctor might be able to help.

I have been taking calcium, vitamin D, magnesium, turmeric and zinc. Vitamin D is the only thing I take daily as even before lyme, I was Vitamin D deficient. All of the others I take every other day.

I started Japanese Knotweed and Cat Claw tincture (1/2 tsp, twice per day) on Sunday. But to your point, I doubt just two days of that would have spiked my liver enzyme up so high.

I will see my PCP next Friday and see where she recommends me. She may recommend me to a GI specialist.

I figured it was worth seeing if anyone else had any similar situations of abdominal pain and going between what has caused it, antibiotics or lyme.

For what its worth, the other lyme symptoms I have had since my bite and has not gone away post treatment is daily jaw pain and a feeling like I am vibrating (internal tremors) when I lay down to sleep and when I wake up.