Fibro/CFS causing severe constipation and acid reflux

 it could be so many things  aniexty/stress 

.i get very dry mouth due to catearh, ,and if i eat cheese or bacon . so if you can rule out these things . 

some meds can also cause a dry mouth and conditions like fibro and Me . if all this can be ruled out then its a trip to the doctors hun

,i  dont  think much of them but sometimes its only them that can sort you out. you need to find out the reason . before you can do anything .

Thanks,

            I will see how it goes this week and if it is no better I will mention it to my GP whe I see her next week.

Hoping it is nothing serious,I really do not need something else on top of every other problem!

Fibro,anxiety and I also suffer with Hyperhidrosis.

if you have fibro sorry i didnt see it mentioned in your first post .

then i think your find its due to this , it is one of the many symptoms of fibro and it comes and goes , 

my aunt had surgery which caused trouble swallowing unrelated to our condition , and she was told to bring her chin forward towards her chest when she had diffitculty swallowing i do this now it does seem to help .

look up fibro symptoms on line thats its were i read that a dry mouth is common symptom its not in all listings but in most .

you dont want to be pulled about and poked and proded uncesery

because this can cause pain flares . so try to avoid when possiable 

Thanks,I was really starting to worry.

I have had fibro for 5 and a half years now,I know just about all there is to about symptoms,but not heard of difficulty swallowing.

I might inform my GP anyway,so that they can add it to my list!

well it cant hurt . 

Yes Emlou, as Tiswas says, it is part of fibro - it's almost like every part of our body seems to go wrong and it's almost unrepairable. I get dry mouth too and things like steak and chicken breast can sometimes be difficult to swallow. You just need to lay off it for a while until your saliva returns. Good luck x

i find avoiding or reducing  salt and salty food like bacon and cheese helps to reduce the dryness .,

Thanks.

I have just been eating some toast and it has happened again,it is as if I get the food to the back of my throat,then there is no saliva to swallow it down and it gets stuck,it panics me because it feels as though I am going to choke!

drink with it ,i do know the feeling and it does cause panic sometimes because like you say its at the back of the throat and it doesent seem to want to move either way ,sometimes i say it feels like i have forgotten how to swallow . did you try bringing your chin forward to your chest .

this also happens to me at nigth and during the day at times when i am not eating .i do the chin /chest thing there as well seems to open up the back of the throat .

Will try it later and see if it works,I am worrying about even eating now

Look up Sjogren's Syndrome, I was diagnosed with that before I was diagnosed with Fibro..dry mouth, dry eyes..and lots of other issues of course..it's actually on the site too...so it's very easy fir you...really feel for you, I have a artificial saliva in a soray when I need it and eye do roos too...just a thought..:-) xx hope you soon find out WHY..!!

Hi Hazel, I am super windy too from both ends and it drives me mad as all I want to do is go poo! I feel it stuck in the lower part of my colon. The acid pain is horrid though and it can be so painful in my chest it makes me short of breath and feels like someone has dropped something heavy on you. I always wake up with a sore/itchy throat too. Hugs to you too xx

Morning, It can be very painfull cant it, especially when your out and you have to hold your wind back. I work as a waitress ( been off work since December) but sometimes when i take an order i can feel it build up and i know if i walk off i will blow so i chat to the customer a bit until its safe ha ha ha. get great tips. customers say that i am funny and good at my job if they only new hee hee hee. I wonder if you have an allergy as you wake with an itchy throat, just a thought. Thats not good being bunged up maybe try fibrogel ask at boots there pretty good. I dont get embarised about it , I was in hospital recently and christ my wind built up and when your surrounded by old people i didnt want to put them threw the rath of my ar**. I wasnt aloud out of bed, but i said to a nurse please let me go to the loo and she said no i said look i need to fart and i dont want to put these sweet old ladies to suffer hee hee hee. a nurse assisted me to the loo. sometimes you just have to think s*d it .My daughter is the same. Dont suffer go and get help. Went off abit then , got loads of funny stories about me and my bowels. when i was younger one boy finished with me because of my wind, I found it hillarious, from then on I said if i cant fart in front of a boyfriend and feel comfortable hes not worth my time.

oh the pure joys of this condition . try abdomal massage .and a remedy i read the other day for constipation . hot chocolate with two melted tablespoons of coconut oil in .i am giving that a try today .bcause its driving me mad .iv eaten liquish left of eating any thing heavy last nigth for tea i had cauliflower and broccoli cheese bake .still nothing much .this morning .oh for the the relief of a big poo hehehehe you got keep trying to laugh 

thats such a good attidue i really wish i could feel like that i get so stressed about it ,i was brought up to believe little girls dont do that sort of thing and ladies most certainly dont. 

but you notice theres no such conduct expected by men .its fine for them to trump like kingkong and lite it if they want  but a lady with a problem  cant do it without some lude or sarcastic comment being made 

Oh I have just been laughing at your reply, Thats so funny. Yes its so true my nan used to tell me off , yet I would hear her fart like a trooper. I am so childish about it. I am loud and so is my daughter , sons middle of the range. My husband trys to beat us but not yet. I remember going to a yoga class years ago and the instructor bent forward to demonstrate and she let one loud one fly, know one else reacted but i was crying with laughter and gulping couldnt help it , i had to pick my mat up and walk out. was the best laugh i had in ages. I remember a poem my mum said to me think it goes like this. where air you may be let your wind go free , in church or chapel let it rattle. something like that. hugs xxxx

yeah i no that poem . mine tend to be loud .but not wiffey all thou at the moment they are because i am constipated .

did you ever watch the victoria wood dinner ladies ,comedy . 

with julie walters playing her mum god it was hysterical when she used to break wind , when she bent down .her charector not julie .hehehe

Ok Hazel and Tiswas about to go to bed now and still no darn poos or poo. I have farted about 30 times though with some lasting at least 5 seconds - I wonder what the world record is. So anyway I have now bough a tin of prunes and some prune juice as I am officially at war now with my backside. Lying here now and here comes a hot flush and my night sweats I'm sure will begin in an hour - oh life as a woman is crap (pardon the pun) xx

iv been brave and and had a hot chocolate with 2 tablespoons of coconut oil in .actuly you couldnt taste if you zip it while hot i hope it does the trick 

if not i am going to have another one in the morning , 

i will let you no if it works . i am sweating more than normal as well but thats proberly down to being constipated .if i dont have a proper one soon

i think i will go crazy i am never changing my diet again or trying anything new . my body just dosent like it .this is the worst iv ever been.

i dont know how people put up with this all the time .

 

Well any joy?. 5 seconds eh proud of you ha ha. 

Hello , have you had any joy ?. coconut oil , your brave. I have tried coconut water tastes awful . well i hope you and gizmo have both had a good c**p today. Talking of that i need to go now. 

Oh Hazel still nothing I have now taken a laxative this evening plus been feeling tired and sick today with hot sweats too. Sooooo shattered from having my hair done - crazy eh! How are you today x

Oh good god you poor woman, nothing worse makes you feel so bad.You must feel so uncomfortable. Hopefully you will fill your loo in the morn .well I have not long got out of bed bad night and pain is bad , taken pain killers well amatriptalene but its not easing and in my head i am saying i am not in pain , i am not in pain thought the power of the mind would help ha ha ha but no. Ahh well roll on friday. Hugs 

coconut oil dosent taste at all the one i use . and if you drink the hot chocolate while still hot you you dont notice the oily feel .

still not much movement but at least small amounts are moving out just be glad when i get back to normal .

Might try that then. your going to feel so much better when you launch. Do you know the more i go on this site i can see all the symptoms that i have which i thought werent connected they were just things i put up with like ,

Tiredness / pain/ sore knockers/ ect ect all comes together. Well i wish you a good poo, ha ha never thought i would be saying that. But i mean it. Hugs 

Poor you Tina and Gizmo....hope you both are much lighter today..it's 8.45 am here....such unreal pain and discomfort your both battling.this little smiley face will be you both reall soon..:-( xxxxxx

its driving me mad its the last time i change my diet no matter what anyone suggests . il stick to what i no suits .healthy or not hehehehe

Just woke up after falling asleep on the settee. I've crawled up to bed. Still nothing passed so taken my melds and back off to sleep. Still feeling sick. Night night Tina, Hazel and Christine ans hope you have a good night's rest. Tina, fingers crossed for tomorrow eh x

Poor Gizmo, hope you get a real breakthrough tonight...you must be soooo uncomfortable ...:-( xxxx

Oh Christine it's just not leaving my colon and going into my bowel and it's been over a week now. All I've got is tons of gas Hope you have a good day. Oooooo nasty hot sweat coming on :-( xxxxx

 

have you tried live yogurt a large tub supposed to be helpful . mines still moving thank god but very slowly you must be in agony. 

have you tried lactulose ,or syrup of figs   i find lactulose normaly shifts any thing but  i try to avoid it because its basicly all conentrated sugars

but i might just have to use it.

iv got some senna chocolate exlax i try that tomorrow after yet another  acupunture treatment .

mines the same i can feel it in my left side in the decending colon.

its just taking its time moving down . 

iv had two lots of hot chocolate and coconut oil stil did help much i think if it was mild to moderate it would have worked  .but this is a stuborn one .

i saw this on the net ,  to help aid digestion. soak a cotton cloth in castor oil heat in oven for a few minutes so just warm ,apply to stomach then a plastic bag and then a heat heat pad /or hot water bottle then wrapp round a couple of towels to keep the heat in lay back for 30 minutes .havn't tried it yet but sounds like a good idea . 

years ago in my teens i used to have to take castor oil for constipation yukky . 

are you taking pain meds that causes the constipation or is it just a medical problem