Thank you so very much for your response. I was wondering about discitis but I haven't had any real back pain for a long while, my thinking it is being referred to my abdomen. I am scheduled for a closed MRI next week and referral to a neurosurgeon after that with a colonoscope next month. I have had a upper GI EGD series with HIDA and CT. My D-DImer is elevated to 675 but nothing else remarkable. My biposies were all good so I am thinking maybe MRSA from original back surgery 9 years ago. It is true that can lay in hiding quite a while right? My symptoms whatever is causing them are getting worse since acute onset 3 weeks ago in the upper rt quadrant of my abdomen, with pain traveling all over the map. Thank you again Doctor just wish I wasn't in back water America and had access to definitive medical care to get at this sooner than later.