Dear Dr. Anderson,
My 49 year old son has been experiencing intense left flank pain for the past 5 months. The pain hits him suddenly and is so intense he can not move nor speak. He turns very pale, covered with sweat, heart racing and literally frozen. He feels like he is dying. After 10 minutes, the pain starts to disappear slowly and he can finally catch his breath again. CT scan showed inflammation of colon lining and a mass on his spleen. Colonoscopy found one medium sized polyp and a lot of inflammation in Sigmoid. Onogologist cannot figure out mass. Biopsies normal and so are lab tests. Could this be an aneurysm ??