1. As far as nocturnal symptoms, nothing typically wakes me up. I may wake up naturally and still feel bloated or general discomfort, but I rarely wake up due to pain. 2. I have not had any weight loss; in fact, the opposite. My symptoms actually began after a period of significant weight gain. During my fiance's pregnancy, I went from about 205 to nearly 230. It was near the end of the pregnancy that I began experiencing more severe symptoms, and thus it was after the weight gain. I now find weight difficult to drop, and if I do lose 5 or 10 pounds it quickly comes back, even with generally healthy eating. Honestly I feel as though I'm carrying around excessive feces, and most of this weight is carried in my stomach and upper abdomen; an uncomfortable feeling of distention. 3. I have not been tested for coeliac disease. After recieving your reply, I took a screening quiz at a .org regarding gluten sensitivity. I identified 26 symptoms that I experience regularly, and probably 5-10 of those I experience constantly. Upon completion, the result read something to the effect of "you present more than 4 symptoms and likely have some level of gluten allergy". 4. I have no other medical illness that I am aware of. Over the timeframe of this off-and-on illness, and general feeling of unhealthyness, I have on two occasions presented yellow in the whites of my eyes. It was faint, but was noticed and brought to my attention by others. For this reason, I worry about my liver. I've also read that constipation and any of these bowel and bile duct related issues can cause this, so I suppose that's not necessarily the case. 5. I am not taking daily medication of any kind. I will take gas pills or tums on occasion in hopes of bloating relief, but generally this is to no avail. I will take the occasional vitamin, but by no means do I remember to take it daily. I have not noticed a difference in abdomen health while taking the vitamins. In fact, I remember a particular instance where I feared it was contributing to the problem as I was remembering to take them and feeling worse and worse.... Likely a coincidence, I suppose. In addition, I wanted to point out that I experience skin sensitivity. By that I mean tenderness to touch. If I scratch, particularly around the abdomen (both sides, front and back) I have a feeling of a bruise being pushed on for about 20 to 30 seconds afterwards. I believe this is a symptom that comes and goes, but honestly I only notice it being there, and don't notice it not being a symptom, if that makes sense. Other symptoms I may have forgotten include: excessive sweating (seriously more than anyone I've ever known; this is not always the case, but when I'm feeling bad it's worse... Not typically cold sweats, but sweating in general). I will sweat to the point of soaked hair with relative easy activity such as golfing --- by the second hole. I had a light gluten free dinner tonight, but understand that the possitive affects this could have, if in fact I have a gluten allergy, will take time. I will hope to see quick changes regarding the bloating, reflux etc. even if the overall pain and, I assume, inflamation takes time to alleviate itself. I am certainly interested in more of your thoughts and opinions on this. In particular, for piece of mind, I was wondering what about my case leads you away from cancer. I should tell you, another symptom is general anxiety.. Ha, can you tell? That said, I assure you that my symptoms are VERY real, and are slowly taking over my life.
AH! One last thing that I wanted to mention. One thing that has typically steered me away from IBS type conditions is that I do not experience an unusual amount of diarrhea. To the contrary, I have more issues with constipation and hemmorrhoids. That said, I would never call my movements 'solid' by any means. On the bristol scale I am consistently at a type 6; fluffy in appearance, almost mossy, soft appearance, but formed. Sorry if this is not pertinent.

Thanks for your help!