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Abdomen Pain
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Any help would really be appreciated.
I suffer from IBS and I seem to have had a bad attack of it.
It started with slight cramps on Monday and it's slowly been getting worse.
To the point yesterday I was having cramps every 10 mins that made me nearly pass out. I went to the docs yesterday and he prescribed Buscopan. Examined my tummy and said the pain was coming from my gut, this area is swollen.(I had tried Codeine 15mg but they didnt work)
Buscopan worked for a few hours but my cramps started again last night.
I have now been waking up every hour with constant cramps through the night. It hurts to lie in any position but it eases slightly if i lift my legs to my chest or I sit down.
The pain is killing me and Idon't know what to do.
Has anyone experienced this?
Please help
I suffer from IBS and I seem to have had a bad attack of it.
It started with slight cramps on Monday and it's slowly been getting worse.
To the point yesterday I was having cramps every 10 mins that made me nearly pass out. I went to the docs yesterday and he prescribed Buscopan. Examined my tummy and said the pain was coming from my gut, this area is swollen.(I had tried Codeine 15mg but they didnt work)
Buscopan worked for a few hours but my cramps started again last night.
I have now been waking up every hour with constant cramps through the night. It hurts to lie in any position but it eases slightly if i lift my legs to my chest or I sit down.
The pain is killing me and Idon't know what to do.
Has anyone experienced this?
Please help
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it turned out to be appendicitis, which they never did discover until later. Hes lucky his appendix didnt burst.
Just wanted to share something for the furture to help with the IBS... Theres a thing you can buy called Slippery Elm (can get at holland and barratt and places like that).... if you take that it's meant to really help (my mum has it for IBS and it's really helped).
Ilora x
that's pretty shocking. although my cousin had a very similar experience quite recently when she was rushed to A&E. after a few hours of my aunt insisting that they take her seriously, they stopped trying to say it was a tummy bug, and admitted her with 'gallstones'.
turns out it was an ectopic pregnancy that had burst and she was bleeding internally and nearly died.
so yeah, i would always ask for a second opinion if you're still worried after seeing a doctor. a lot of the time they are not right the first time (or the second).
just waiting to go to hospital now as i managed to get some sleep and didnt want to be woken, its still the same so im deffo going now.
the painkillers worked for a few hours but the pain kicked back in, hence why im up now
i have been sick too but the doc warned i might be on the codeine.
im at my wit's end now.
yeah they sent me with sme pills but they arent working now
go back. ask them to check again. tell them the pills don't work and you're still in agony.
i know IBS can be painful sometimes, but it really shouldn't be this painful. even if it is just IBS, you deserve to have your pain managed properly.
Did they feel your tummy or anything? I'm just concerned because it sounds awfully like when I had a cyst... Don't want to scare you... I know IBS can be awful sometimes so it probably is just that.
Please don't put up with the pain though. Keep us updated duck.
at the risk of sounding pedantic, Campylobacter is actually a bacteria
do you have a fever? did they take blood in the hospital?
well I had the worst night ever....but the big cramps have stopped for now and ive managed to get some solid sleep.
Yeah they took my blood.
I'm going back to my docs on Monday but if the cramps start back up again im going back to hospital.
Thanks for all the advice, really appreciated.
I'll keep you all informed. Thanks again everyone, very kind of u all.
Ilora x
My mum changed my bedsheets while i was in the bath. Bless my mum and John, both been running around after me and I've been so narky and snappy and impatient!
I'll treat them to something when I'm better.
Going to have a sip of Night Nurse in a mo and fingers crossed I'll get a good night's sleep.
Thanks again peeps.
According to this website
http://www.secara.com/site/Shen_Ling_Bai_Zhu_San.html
Cardamom Seeds is one of the ingredients, I remember my mum also used to give me that in water for tummy aches.
BTW I'm sure I heard cutting out milk helps IBS or at least getting the one that is extra filtered to get rid of the bacteria - you can tell which one it is cos it lasts about 10 days unlike normal milk which spoils very quickly cos there's so much bacteria in it.
Funnily enough i had just been wondering wha telse i could buy to help in this situation. Since changing my food intake these pains havent occurred for a long while now, seems eating veg everyday with someone small aside it helps my bowels move and takes away any and all pains i had been suffering.
I just dozed off whilst sitting at the pc, before writing this, something i never really do thats how tired i am!
I'm going to make a note of the recommended thigns folk have said here and go looking for them. This is the worst i have ever had these pains and they really are intolerable. I have trouble sleeping at the best of times and this really isnt helping tonight, considering im up early for work too!
I can feel a slight pain / cramp in my that kinda area so im afraid to try to lie down at the moment.
Doctors appointments round here are murder to get seeing that you get told to phone in early in the morning to be told it'll be at least 3 days before you are seen, it realyl doesnt help when you feel like this!
...but the likelyhood of finding a single one on it's own is highly unlikely, unless you've isolated it on purpose
...maybe it's gastric flu?...there is alot of it going around.
I managed to cure my IBS by cutting out all dairy products, and processed food- worth a try.