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Upper Right Quadrant Pain. Done, Xrays, CT Scans, Ultrasound And Blood Tests. Hydrogen Breath Test And Colitis Positive. Doxycycline Caused Weightloss, Tiredness. Reasons?

I have been having upper right quadrant pain for months now, have done all the tests possible, chest x ray, ct of abdomen, ultra sound , hep a,b,c, sti s, h pylori test, ultra sound of abdomen, blood work, stool cultures, blood cultures, o/p stool samples, ocult stool test , ca125, urine test, and everything has checked out normal except for the hydrogen breath test and chrons colitiis test came back reactive but boderline ? I have undigested food in my stool, i have loose bm every morning for the past month,tired, hard to concentrate, weight lose, and it all happened after taking doxycycline for a month, what could it be.
Sat, 7 Sep 2013
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Dear patient,

It may be that you depleted your normal bowel flora and that is creating a malabsorbtion problem; probiotics could help in that sense. Chron's indeed can present with such symptoms, and the gold standard for diagnosis would be a lower endoscopy with biopsy.

Yours truly,

Dr Brenes-Salazar MD
Mayo ClinicMN
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Upper Right Quadrant Pain. Done, Xrays, CT Scans, Ultrasound And Blood Tests. Hydrogen Breath Test And Colitis Positive. Doxycycline Caused Weightloss, Tiredness. Reasons?

Dear patient, It may be that you depleted your normal bowel flora and that is creating a malabsorbtion problem; probiotics could help in that sense. Chron s indeed can present with such symptoms, and the gold standard for diagnosis would be a lower endoscopy with biopsy. Yours truly, Dr Brenes-Salazar MD Mayo ClinicMN