New symptoms with my Crohns

I have two thoughts...do you suffer from Gerd?I often get pain in that area as well as nausea...my other thought Is perhaps it's your gallbladder? Just a thought...feel better soon....debbie

that's also how i felt when I had an on and off partial upper bowel obstruction. If it comes on pretty quick after eating, it might be pretty high up and findable on an endoscopy. Mine was about 4 hours after eating, and hard to see - though you can kinda see it on a CAT scan.

that being said, it could be a lot of things (gall bladder etc) so it's probably time to get checked out!!

I don't understand why you are taking your daily dose all at once? Is that how your physician prescribed it? My understanding of this drug's effect is that it is topical. It has to reach the affected area to be of any benefit, and maximum benefit is derived from its continuous presence in the bowel. Because of that I think the recommendation from the drug manufacturer is to divide the dose, at least morning and night, if not three times daily.

I was on a sister medication, Pentasa, for years and it was recommended that I take that four times a day.

The reason I'm bringing it to your attention is that sometimes the 5-ASA drugs can cause nausea, diarrhea, burning around the anus, dizzyness etc and these effects are worsened by taking the medication all at once.

Just a thought ...

Aronk, I take Asacol too. I take 6 tabs a day. I take 3 in the morning and 3 at night. Maybe give it a try taking it twice a day and see if that helps. I am glad to hear you are at least taking some kind of maintainence med, its best to keep the inflammation down before it does any damage.

You might want to see a doc about GERD. Many Crohnnies suffer with it and can be easily eased with a proton pump inhibitor such as Prilosec. The GERD can cause you to feel nauseous, especially when your stomach is empty. If its not that you could have some narrowing going on. Good luck!

here's my info on partial obstructions:
in my experience, it's been two things. One was a physical stricture - that was caused by an adhesion lower down pulling it tight, and my food literally was getting stuck. I spent 2 years on a liquid diet. I had surgery for the adhesion and then I could have food pass through. How it was connected to the upper bowel was never figured out, but, it was good to get that fixed. That was a mechanical pulling. No test showed it. so it was lucky they fixed the lower (colon!) adhesion and it happened to fix the upper part.

I also have upper bowel that's rock-like, several loops stuck together. That swells on the inside and then food gives me problems. The swelling comes and goes.

Here's my advice -- get a really good GI doc. That doc is going to order an endoscopy, which *might* show the problem is it's high up. The doc will also hopefully order a CT scan. That might show a problem like #2 problem with me. Also make sure if you get a CT you ask who has the best radiologist, because this is the person you depend upon to read the CT. It's important ot have someone good. In my case (#2) the radiologist totally missed the problem, but my doc read the CT again and it was clear as day.
You mght want to think about this -- are certain foods triggering it? Try a super soft diet, no bread (i still can't eat it), no rice, just a few days with things like ice cream, pureed soups, mashed potatos etc. eat 5 times a day instead of 3 and don't eat any big meals. See if it helps! that's data you can take to a doc.

And on the other topic, GALLBLADDER all you need is an ultrasound. If that comes up positive, you'll be saving yourself A LOT of radiation in tests....Maybe you could get your family doc to send you for that -- asap, because the burping & bile thing and the location OF YOUR PAIN -- are kinda textbook for that.

keep us posted!

In either case you need to move along to getting to the doc, because the last thing you want to do is end up in emergency!!

maybe a lot of gas passing through the instenstings i have the same problem