What causes the ascending colon to get backed up?
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Hi, So in the beginning of February I began experiencing bloating (I looked pregnant) indigestion, and a lot of burping. My bowel movements were sparse and pencil thin and I felt full and lost my appetite. Gas x did not help. After a couple weeks of not getting better I went to urgent care and right away he did an x ray and found my ascending colon was all backed up due but the descending was all clear. He told me take miralax as if preparing for a colonoscopy. I did and I got a lot out and was real crampy but then my right side starting hurting incredibility bad (I've had two kids drug free and this whole experience has been worse) I went to the ER they took blood and urine samples, did am ultra sound and an xray. Everything was good except the xray showed one spot in my colon with a small partial blockage. He told me to do miralax one more time. The whole week I felt terrible so I went to my DR. who said theres nothing she can do, referred me to a GI specialist and told me to go the ER if I vomit feces. Freaked out I went back to urgent care and he did more bloodwork and ordered a contrast catscan. The catscan said everything was good except my uterus is somewhat prominent and may need an intra vaginal ultrasound. But when he called me he said my results were good and I possibly had a virus. I called on monday to get an appt for the pelvic exam and couldn't get in until April 24th! Tuesday I went to the ER with pain in my right side and light headiness and told them about my history so far, they did the pelvic ultrasound and told me I had an ovarian cyst that ruptured on my right side but to still see a GI specialist, I may have something else going on with my large intestine. I saw the GI yesterday and he seemed unconcerned with the ovarian cyst but was more concerned that I lost weight and scheduled a colonoscopy, but that isn't until April 28th so now I'm still bloated and burping and worried I do eat more now though. Thanks for the input.
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hope4cure natley39903
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HI natley,
Wow what a story. I am truly sorry you are having these medical issues. It's sad sometimes how slow the medical industry can be toward patients. It can be very frustrating I can see why you must be and for good reason.
i know that your will find the source of these pain issues and soon. You seem very determined that a good thing! The medical system is dropping the ball with many countries including the US.
I have read where a lot of patients get so fed up with the system that private practice is another option to consider.
ER seems to be sending you in circles. I really sympathize with your situation been there done that feels like we are insignificant to doctors and wait our turn is the next answer for another evaluation. Should be a gem I'm ER working together .
Please keep posting let me know how your doing. This is really something that I hope your journey to a healthier pain free life is only a few days away!
Take care,
Hope xxx 👍
sanya11314 natley39903
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I hope for you that they can find whatever cause or the cause passing (like a post viral functional impact, that can last half a year or year) on its own.
My teenaged child has been in that kind of severe life disabling pain for 1.5 years with the finding of a 'ascending colon impaction' too (mind you, the radiologist overlooked it in xray due to position in ascending colon and not rectum......)
and all I can say is:
keep the stool soft. Daily.
You have time to experiement and here are some suggestions:
Movicol did something for us, BUT it was Movicol stool, then constipation, then Movicol ..... anal fissures, bleeding, Movicol, constipation. Until eureka, I used
'calm' magnesium citrate.
She needs an everyday dose and seems to be better working than any osmotic non-liquid pulling laxative (like Movicol).
In our case the colon inertia, the pseudoobstruction (functional), gastroparesis come from a connetive tissue defect (as it sits between muscle layers and influences the function) and nothing can be done.
Gastroparesis, nausea, vomiting plaguing in different severeness waves, abdominal right sided pain constantly, cramping pain.
There was once a 2-3cm hemorrhagic luteal cyst visible on right side during laparoscopic appendectomy, but definitely not the cause since not there when symptoms started and now long gone and on continuous contraceptive pill to avoid further formations of it. (scanned, it's not there anymore, but pain is)
Yes, appendix taken out too, is your appendix fine? How are white blood cells and CRP levels going?
In our case the transverse colon has fallen down, hanging through enlongated, you might want to have a look, what your transverse colon is doing.
It's a physical thingy if it has a harder time to work.
For us the last option is to remove part of small or large intestine....and so we still wait of course.
First we also checked for an autoimmune disease that can manifest gastroenterologically (like lupus or mixed connective tissue disease)
Hope you have a better explanation and all good after treatment or some time.
Abdo pain is a huge huge field.
But until then it is compulsory you keep your stool soft.
Not only like every week once a Miralax treatment to clean out, but daily, take daily care please of soft stool.
What will work is your personal individual experience. Also experience with diet.
A stretched gut hurts badly and takes time to shrink back (if it can, but connective tissue disorder is rare), so please avoid stretching it by keeping stool soft.
If this was all it needed, I don't know.
(we started with it with big hopes of being cured and being crushed at the end of a 1,5 year route and multiple useless ER visits. We are simply not going anymore when she is rolled up in a ball in pain. No pain med except narcotics would help, BUT narcotics slow guts down, exactly what one with ascending colon impaction doesn't want and need)
ALL ALL THE BEST!
debkrazy natley39903
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I have the exact same
Problem. I asked my Gastrologist and she said liver does not cause pain. I told her it feels
Like I am blocked or gassed up and she brushed it off. It went away today because it used Miralax and Benefiber in hot tea, but after eating today the pain is back again identical to yours. What did you find out?