Hi, I am a 34 yr. old stay at home mom. I have diabetes. I have no health insurance, so I am taking part in a diabetes study group taking a medicine call Liraglutide. I have no family doctor, but have had bowel problems and heartburn for many years. Here's where the real problem started. It was about 6/7 weeks ago. My bowels changed. I usually have diarrhea, and have had ever since I can remember. I usually have very sparse bowel movements, usually 1or 2 a week. Then all the sudden I found I constantly had to go. It had gotten where I would use restrooms everywhere I went. From one errand to the next. Over that first week, it became harder and harder to go. I was actually constipated w/ diarrhea. Then I noticed my stools were almost like light brown pieces of tissue paper, they would just sink to the bottom of the toilet. There were not usually many pieces, and sometimes only one. Of course as it progressed, I had the urge to go, but couldn't, which led to laxatives. I used a generic brand and then X-lax® with no results. Then I tried Phillips®, with that I actually went a little. Then I tried suppositories, that didn't work too well. It led to stomach cramps and it never melted. So I then tried Dulcolax® and that actually worked some. At that point, I had bright red streams of blood (not much though) and mucus. I also noticed that my stools were flat. I actually passed one, after the Dulcolax® that was half hollow. I passed a few that looked like short pieces of spaghetti.

I often felt like in the past that food sat in my stomach for too long. I could eat and taste it days later. I know this medicine I take for diabetes causes that too. Sometimes (like at the beginning of this situation) I get some REAL NASTY burps. I mean just yucky, I'm talking dead, decaying, just plain gross burps. Ones that make you and everyone else around you want to vomit. I also use to pass a lot of gas but not now. Now after the bad burping, the having to go all the time to the I couldn't go at all. I thought w/ the movement after the Dulcolax® that I might be alright.I then started having pain around my navel, and remembered that just a week ago, there were a few times, I got piercing pains there, twice, and they woke me up in the middle of the night. I told my husband and laughed, that was odd I thought. I also get sharp pains in the upper left and lower left abdomen. I even worried when the pain started moving to the right, and above the navel it was an appendicitis.Then pain in the upper right, and lower left occur usually the same times.So I was thinking, Pancreas and Gall Bladder/ Appendix? But if it was either of those, I'd probably be really sick by now. The pain in those areas come and go, the upper right is much sharper and tender then the bottom right pain.

I also have pain in the lower left area. It seems to be getting worse slowly. Now I can't have a bowel movement at all. I have passed some light gas, and heard some gurgling noices there. I have moderate to sever pain there, it somes and goes. I feel bloated at times, and it seems to be tighter than usual. With all these aches and pains, I have had pain radiate to my back. But here's the kicker. I started my period which is randomly painful.I thought I was going to die!!! 6/7 weeks of fighting this bowel problem that has gotten painful, and then my period. My abdomen swelled so big, I wouldn't have been surprised if an alien had clawed his way out. I was literally paralyzed w/pain and in tears. It wasn't the painful cramps as much as the swelling and pressure of my abdomen. I took some pain pills someone was nice enough to rush me, and after 2 percs. I was able to walk and talk. Now this morning when I awoke, I am not bothered too much by my period, but the abdomen pains upper and lower seem to be going strong.

I am posting this because I wonder if I should go to the ER (being I have no insurance). I'm afraid that If i go while I'm on my period they'll just chalk it up to that. It’s not that though, its been getting worse for weeks. I can actually point to where it hurts in my lower left abdomen (its not cramps I swear). Now the back pain thats running up the mid lower part of my spine might be. And another reason I'm afraid to go, is I don't want to go, and they look at me like I'm crazy. I honestly feel like there is an obstruction there on the lower left side. But I haven't had a bowel movement in about 4 days. Its been a week since I used laxatives. I have had 2 bowel movements since then. 1 that had a few pieces of stool, and the second had 1 piece (they were very small, flaky, and thin) diarrhea like. I have been sick to my stomach, and even dizzy at times. Last night I was pretty miserable, and today have had alot of burning sensations from my mid section to the left, and I did have sharp pain radiating on the right lower/mid side. I have had no fever, so I don't think I really need to be checked do I? I actually had a small stool today, the pains have eased a bit....should I use another laxative.


I hope I left nothing out, if you need to ask any other questions, I'll try to answer them. Thanks bunches for your time. I hope my post wasn't too confusing.