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Do I have bowel obstruction!!!

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salman
salman

I have started to have pain on the left side of abdomen for 3 days, but no vomiting and no swelling.

I have diaherea and nothing else.

The thing is for the past week I have started eating 'bran flakes'(fibre cereal) all of a sudden. As it was so sudden that I started eating fibre, is it this that is causing the pain and diaherea??

Another thin I have swallowed large chunks of food aswell in the past week, could it be this?

Help me out guys, am really confused!!!

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  • DarrenPharm
    DarrenPharm

    Posted

    IBS possibly? Give it a few more days with your ammended diet, as your body gets used to this I am sure the diarrhoea and pain will go away.
  • salman
    salman

    Posted

    Yh thanks for the advice..

    Would you know wheather IBS occurs in majority of quite large people, because I'm almost underweight for my age..

    I'm 19 and weight 45kg

  • DarrenPharm
    DarrenPharm

    Posted

    Hi Salman, IBS is a condition which is psychosomatic. It matters not if your underweight, overweight, old or Yold or young. It is usually brought on by stress. I would advise to treat the symptoms. If u r having diarhoea treat with loperamide, if the symptoms are persistent treat with peppermint oil or mebeverine.

    Darren

    MPharm

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