Does anyone else get this?
#122985 - 11/17/04 06:59 PM
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doubletrouble
Reged: 11/14/04
Posts: 1530
Loc: Canberra, Australia
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Hi everyone. I had an attack last night. Admittedly I hadn't changed my diet yet but haven't eaten anything I haven't a thousand times before and been fine. Anyway, I suffer from this horrible pressure cramp. Initially I feel hungry or like I have indigestion but even if I eat something or take mylanta it moves down and becomes this huge pressure pain under my ribs and around my back (like a big band of pain round the rib area). After a while I feel nauseas (sp?) and then get tummy cramps on top of it. Not even a hot water bottle and peppermint tea help. Occasionally it will ease up slightly if I take buscopan (an antispasmodic) but not always. I also feel feverish. I asked 3 doctors about it, one told me I was hungry, one told me I possibly had gallstones (they checked and I didn't) and my specialist said he'd never heard of it connected to IBS before, so I was just wondering if anyone else gets anything like it? I usually feel crummy for a few days afterward and sometimes it makes me run to the loo but not always and like I said it doesn't seem to be connected to any particular food type.
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Amy
Edited by doubletrouble (11/17/04 07:00 PM)
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Sounds like a build up of gas. Do you get a diarrhea episode after?
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does it make you have any kind of poo? sloppy?
this sounds like what I define as an attack - horrible horrible horrible. the only thing to do is to keep an ibs safe diet to prevent it from happening...once its happening, I take an antinauseous drug which is also a gastric emptier so gets it out of my bum faster...domperidone is the name of the drug...I love it. Other then that I pray for salvation!! Good luck
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Hi guys. Thanks for answering. I've only had diarreah with it once or twice. Sometimes it makes me go 2 or 3 times but it's normal (well as normal as I get). Sometimes the next day my ribs feel bruised but usually no d. I get a lot of gas and it doesn't really feel like gas either, just this massive band of pain that usually passes about 4-6 hours later, although I have noticed lately that it generally doesn't really go away altogether, just gets tolerable or intolerable, grrr.
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Amy
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try these yoga poses when it happens (it may be painful but it stretches out the gut...helps me a lot) - childs pose, backward bend and cobra...alternate between them, 20 seconds each..see if it helps!
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That's strange... you were checked for gallstones, you say? Did you have an ultrasound, or did they just check you with bloodwork?
I'm asking because I have/had gallstones, and that's EXACTLY the pain I had when a stone passed. If you've only been tested with bloodwork, have an ultrasound, just to make sure. If you've had the ultrasound... well, I'm baffled.  I suppose it could be gas, or a strange series of spasms... goodness knows we IBSers can get some pretty weird pains. 
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That's what I call an episode. When I get all that pain until I clear my intestines, then I just lay down too sore to move. I think it's pretty normal. You just have to learn what's causing the episodes and try to get them to stop.
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