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Q: stomach cramps and diarrhea at night
asked by: kristyj077 on January 2nd, 2008
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Hey everyone, I am new to the board. I thought I'd come here to see if anyone might can help cause I don't know what is going on with my grandmother and not even her dr knows. At around the beginning of December, my grandma began to have cramps at night at around 12am and she would have to run to the bathroom, it was not upset stomach but just a really loose bowle movement, she felt like she wasnt finished but couldn't do anything. Every night it would do this and she didn't know why, she went to her dr and she had an x-ray and her dr said she had symptons of divaticulitis but that wasn't it. She gave grandma medicine but that didn't help. So, she couldn't take the cramps anymore and cause of her going to the bathroom so much, she became extremely dehydrated and went to the hospital. She was there for about 4 or 5 days, she had all kinds of tests, colonoscopy, cat scans, x-rays and drs found nothing wrong with her, no tumors...no blockages, but they did find out that she had scar tissue that blocked some of the colonoscopy which was divaticulotis but said that wasn't causing the cramping and bowel movements. They couldn't do a full colonscopy cause of scar tissue so next day finished the proecedure by doing a barum enema and even the results from that didn't pin point the problem...the dr said he THOUGHT that it might be blood vessel not flowing properly and he put her on some meds and put her on asprin a day and sent her home. She felt fine last week but the cramps started back night before last and today she's gone to the bathroom 7 times and Friday she's going to a specialist and see if she can get a second opinion. I really hope that he can find the problem so she can get the proper treatment. If there is anyone here that may have experienced this or knows someone, please let me know. The family is just confused about this, we don't understand. Confused
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mominashoe
replied on March 27th, 2008
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She is probably allergic to something in her diet...some allergic reactions only happen when people get older. You can try eliminating foods one by one to find out what it is. Some older people can't handle whole grains, so you could start with something like that.
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mariadiarrhea
replied on February 5th, 2009
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stomach cramps and diarrhea at night
My mother is 81 years old and is experiencing the same problems as your grandmother. She's been tested for everything and nothing is wrong except she is up all night with diarrhea and sometimes even vomiting happens too. I would love to hear more about what you learn to help your grandmother. Maybe we'll find a cure for them.
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KLyndsay
replied on April 1st, 2009
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diarrhea, cramping
I feel your pan kirstyj! And thanks for caring about your grandmother so much. I am in my forties and started having intermittent chronic diarrhea about 1 and 1/2 years ago and tried to ignore the fact--didn't see a doctor or anything. Well, over the past month it has become on occasion urgent and explosive and life-altering. I see no blood or mucus, though. I went to my pd and did the standard stool sample (egads)--nothing was found to be wrong. I was referred to a gastroenterologist but I am afraid to go for a gazillion tests and then still not knowing. I have read many blogs and posts about that happening and hate to go through a litany of tests to be told to eat more fiber and control my stress. I eat very lightly and healthfully and hate this. I have cramps in my lower abdomen that are sometimes pretty severe. I have had a history of anorexia and I hate to think it may be related. I am not anorexic now but afraid to eat many solid foods before being in public as this can exacerbate the issue. I don't have the exact symptoms of any disease I've read up on (not Cronh's or IBS or gardia or pancreatitis or any of the gazillion others that are scaring me), but I come closest to ulcerative colitis yet with no blood or mucous in the stool. Help! This is horrible. I am starting to think my stress is coming out my rear, and I am a refined woman. Embarrassing and almost shameful-feeling:(
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whitecourt
replied on September 21st, 2009
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Cramps & Diarrhea at 5 am every morning
Cramps & Diarrhea at 5 am every morning


MY 82 mother wakes every morning at 5 am with cramps and diarrhea and spends the the next 4 hours making frequent trips to the toilet. This has been going on for the last 3 years and she has seen numerious specialists and has had every test in the book and no one has a clue what is causing it.
My self I wouold be dead by now, she has lost weight and has absolutly no enrgy. This is a woman who 3 years ago was gardening sun up to sundown and now does not leave the house.
She has systematically eliminated every food from her diet with no sucsess.
I feel your pain and your worry. I have the same feelings for my mother and am desparate to find the problem.
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Richka
replied on October 19th, 2009
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Diarrhea every night.
Have any of you been checked for parasites? I just started having diarrhea for the past 3 nights and thinking of getting checked as I eat a lot of leafy greens which can contain them. Always having the fear of cancer though.
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