Bad Morning :(

I went to bed late Wednesday night, but couldn't fall asleep until the early morning hours due to the loud, obnoxious, door-slamming, opera-singing, people who roam the hallways of my floor late at night. (Seriously, people SING all the time on my floor. Like loud classical singing at all hours of the night. Seriously! Is that really necessary?) After I fell asleep, I was woken up just a few short hours later, around 2:00am due to sharp pains in my abdomen. I tried as best I could to get comfortable and fall back asleep, but it didn't work too well. At 5:30, I gave up on sleep and decided to just get up. Bad idea. Upon sitting, the pain in my stomach got much much worse. It was happening again. Since June, I have been having intermittent severe abdominal pain. The first time it happened, I ended up in the emergency room. They ordered an ultrasound, thinking it was my gallbladder, but the test came back normal. Since then, the pain has come back four times, always in the same place, but always going away after a few hours. Thursday morning, I decided to stick it out, wait for the pain to go away, and head to my 7:45 lab. Unfortunately, this didn't happen. I couldn't move. I couldn't sit, I couldn't stand, and I couldn't walk. The pain immobilized me; it was the second most sever I've ever felt it. I waited until 6:30 to see if it would pass, but it didn't. There was no way I could go to my lab like this. I called my sister to see what to do. My sister told me to try to contact my professor about missing lab and to get a note from the health center to send to my professor. I called my mom next to let her know what was going on. She told me if I couldn't get an appointment down there, she would come get me and take me in back home where she works at a clinic. The health clinic on campus doesn't open until 8:30 so I left them a message around 7:30, emailed and called my professor, and attempted to fall back asleep. Apparently my short night's sleep caught up to me because the next thing I knew it was 8:55 and the pain was mercifully gone! Shortly after, the health clinic called me back and told me they had an opening at 9:45. I quickly showered, got dressed, and headed to the clinic. I told the nurse and the PA on staff what had happened that morning and what kept happening over the summer. The PA decided to send me to the hospital for an abdominal x-ray and some blood work. I spent the rest of the morning waiting in those so aptly named waiting rooms all over the Waverly hospital. They poked and prodded me then sent me back to campus. When they called me later I was happy to learn that there was seemingly nothing wrong with my pancreas, liver, or gallbladder, but do to the x-ray results, they decided to put me on a prescription stomach medicine. Hopefully this medicine does the trick so I won't have any more bad mornings.