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marie25874
marie25874

Hi Ladies,

Has anyone experienced such abdominal discomfort that you've actually considered going to the ER?  I've been there for other things over the last six months - extreme anxiety, dizziness.  All the tests I've had have come back normal.  This is new though.  Anyone else out there? 

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  • becky221
    becky221 marie25874

    Posted

    Does it come and go or is it constant? If it comes and goes, I would bet it's IBS. I've had it really bad during times of extreme stress and anxiety.
    • marie25874
      marie25874 becky221

      Posted

      It does come and go but when it hits, boy is it uncomfortable. As usual I have a hard time believing it's due to hormones and then anxiety increases. Is IBS triggered by hormones?
    • becky221
      becky221 marie25874

      Posted

      It can be due to a whole lot of things. Hormones and stress and anxiety are very common causes. And it can be really bad when it hits.
    • marie25874
      marie25874 becky221

      Posted

      Thank you for writing! Hearing from others calms me down a lot. I have certainly had a delicate stomach in the past but this blows it away. It just escalated out of nowhere - just like all these other. Peri symptoms. Do you have any remedies?
    • marie25874
      marie25874

      Posted

      I usually feel ok first thing in the morning and then I eat something and then it hits.
    • becky221
      becky221 marie25874

      Posted

      I totally think it's ibs. Been dealing with it for 30 years! The doctor can help. Sometimes they prescribe anti anxiety meds. I am on a new medicine that's for ibs called levsin. It's has been wonderful. But check with a doctor. No need to suffer when there are a lot of ways to treat it.
    • marie25874
      marie25874 becky221

      Posted

      I will definitely look into this. So your IBS wasn't all a result of peri? You've had it before hormones starting being an issue?

      Just want to feel like my old self again - we all do.

    • becky221
      becky221 marie25874

      Posted

      No, I've had it for 30 years. But it's something that can come and go. And it can start anytime. Hormones can definitely be a trigger. It's very common and not a disease. It can be managed. And sometimes symptoms go away.
  • ellacraig
    ellacraig marie25874

    Posted

    Alllll theeeeee timmeeeee
    • ellacraig
      ellacraig marie25874

      Posted

      Hmm well triggers at the moment seem to be sugar dairy gluten certain fruit and greens. As you can imagine that's impossible to avoid so I'm trying apple cider vinegar pre meals , digestive enzymes and gut healing formulas like slippery elm
  • gentleballads
    gentleballads marie25874

    Posted

    yes, get it too...of and on ...sometimes i confuse with the cramps lower down coz sometimes its lower down rather than up and i feel my periods are gonna start...sometimes its higher up

    i take some local ayurvedic caps with peppermint

     

  • JanieMac
    JanieMac marie25874

    Posted

    Hi Marie

    I had what was thought to be food poisoning which ended up with severe abdominal pain on my right hand side.  I knew it was not normal, and ended up ringing our 111 number and the operator sent an ambulance.  However, they decided that the pain was due to the food poisoning and said that they thought I had a urine infection as well so to see my GP when I stopped throwing up!  They gave me some sickness suppressants, which didn't work, and the severe pain continued until the middle of the next night.  And then it stopped.  In hindsight, I think that the food poisoning/ being sick had somehow led to me twisting the ovarian dermoid cyst that was eventually discovered....which somehow untwisted itself.  Or I may be putting 2 and 2 together and making 24!

    I had had abdominal pains, on both sides, for about 9 months prior to that.  It was only because of the blood in the urine, that 2 months later I had an ultrasound scan which found the 9cm dermoid cyst on my right ovary.  Interestingly, linked to your post above, I had fainted twice in the previous few months before its discovery - I have never fainted before, and I wondered what was going on.  Maybe it was linked to the cyst in some way?

    Good luck - see if you can get an abdominal scan just to make sure.

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