Trial and Error

We went back to the dr this afternoon for test results. Or really the lack there of. We still don't know what's causing the abdominal pain or the kidney stones. He did a few tests the end of last week. For the kidney stones he had another CT Scan done and had to do a 24 hour urine collection. The CT Scan didn't show anything, and the urine collection has to be sent to Texas or somewhere so we won't know those results for a couple months. For the pain, he had to do a test where he swallowed a camera the size of a large pill and was hooked up to all kinds of wires and a machine and it took pictures as it went through. That was done to make sure there weren't any problems with his small intestine, and there aren't. We didn't think there was, but just to be sure. So we don't know what's causing the pain. There's really no point in doing another colonoscopy. He's had two done already and nothing was found so there's really no point in doing another one. While we were there today, the dr went and grabbed one of the surgeons who deals more with abdominal surgeries and such just to make sure he didn't miss anything and to see if he had any other ideas, and the surgeon was just as stumped as the rest of us. We discussed our options some more, and now we're going to try a trial and error approach and see if we can find a medicine that helps. So he's back on naproxen and something else that I can't remember at the moment, and we've got to get him off the percocet. Narcotics can actually make gut pain/problems worse, and he's been on them almost 2 months now so we really need to get him off. We are trying anti-inflammatory first, which we think may help. He had been on naproxen before for his shoulder and the pain really started when he ran out and stopped taking it. Another thing that makes us lean towards inflammation somewhere, is using a heating pad helps the pain. Doesn't make it completely disappear, but helps some. So that's the plan of action right now. The kidney stones, well we're not sure what's gonna happen with that yet. I guess we wait and see what results come back from the urine collection and go from there. So really we aren't going home with much more than we came down with. And it wasn't much of a vacation seeing how we spent most of the time either in the hotel room or at the hospital. We did go down to the beach Sunday, and I'll post those pics when I find the camera. It's probably still in the backpack. But that's all the news for now. We'll be home tomorrow. Hopefully our puppies forgive us for having left them out on the back patio for the past week. We had someone taking care of them, but with all the rain that's fallen up there hopefully everything's ok...