Reoccurring Digestive Problem!! Has Anyone Had This?? Posted: 04-19-06 08:46am
I'm 28, male, 5'10", 180lbs - and i've
never had any digestive problems before
the past few years. I'm hoping someone
that reads this has had the same problem,
and has found a remedy.
This problem is on and off, and usually
lasts a few weeks to over a month.. Then
I have no symptoms for up to 6 months or
longer. This has been going on for two
years now. I've had a colonoscopy, an
endoscopy, and a ct scan with that
suspended metal solution drink...All tests
showed nothing, according to the gi
doctor. So, I assume it has to be a
functional problem she's not able to see
or just not thorough enough to diagnose.
Well, when the doctors can't even help
me, it's time to use the power of the
people.. ;)
ok, here are the details:
*sometimes* after I eat steak, a
chicken breast, or if I just eat more than
I should of anything at one sitting, I can
immediately tell something's wrong. I
get bloated, and I have the instinctive
feeling like something's not right with my
gut. At least 4+ hours after that meal,
i'll go to bed extremely bloated, feeling
like i'm pregnant (everything should have
digested by now!), and i'll wake up
feeling the same. That morning I won't
have a bowel movement, whereas I usually
do every single morning like clockwork,
and i'll continue to have
irregularity/constipation and bloating/gas
for 2-6 weeks.
I say "sometimes" because I know it's
not the food itself - I eat mostly the
same things regularly (chicken, eggs, some
fast food), and for months and months I
could be totally fine eating these things.
If it were the food, i'd be like this
constantly. Maybe it's because I ate
too much at a certain sitting, or didn't
chew enough? I don't do it deliberately
of course, and I never "stuff my face".
I'm just trying to figure out why this
lasts so long!!! You'd think it'd be a
one or two day thing, and then right
itself.
Every 'bout' I go through with this, I
experience the same exact
sensations/symptoms. I have a very odd
feeling right under the left side of my
rib cage (i assume it's my stomach). It
just feels "sore" - every time it almost
feels like I strained an ab muscle on the
left side, when nothing i've done lately
could have strained it.
Plus I feel full, and very gassy - you
can clearly hear the frequent roars and
rumbles. It's so pronounced that I can
even feel the gas moving around my stomach
in every direction. So in a nutshell,
it's soreness, extreme bloating (from a
flat stomach to beer belly!), a lot of
gas, and constipation/irregularity.
Also, occassionaly during this time my
stomach will actually twitch (contract
very fast)... I don't know why this
happens, but maybe it's a symptom of a
problem that I don't know of. I've
heard the term spastic colon, but why
would it do this? Something's obviously
wrong.
Well, this all eventually goes away on
its own, sometimes taking over a month.
This is about the 4th time in 2 years that
this whole cycle has happened, and I can
tell you, it's 4 times too many!
Has anyone had this problem??? If
so, please tell me if you've found a way
to remedy this!
