pain question

I woke up this morning feeling my normal self.  Had my usual D a couple times and got ready and went to work.  about 30 minutes after I got to work, the pain started.  My GI says my crohn's is mild so I know I've had it easy compared to so many of you.  But this morning, I thought I was going to pass out from the pain.  It just felt like my guts were tearing apart.  It lasted about 3-4 hours and then went totally away.

As it happens, my regularly scheduled GI appt was this afternoon.  When I told him about the pain, all he could say was that it was unusual and that maybe it was spasms.

Do any of you get pains like this that only lasts a few hours?  I know I've read where some of you have pain that can last days/weeks.  Man, I feel for you on that.

 

I get pains off and on all day. In my head, I'm imagining my food passing through a bad section of gut. No clue if that's accurate, but that's how it feels. My pains only last a minute or two, and come every hour or so.

When I was first diagnosed I used to get extreme pain in my gut, and they never lasted more than a half hour. I never could take anything for the pain because by the time the meds would kick in the pain would be over. It felt like major cramping, and what really helped was my mom would massage it to help whatever was "stuck" pass through, and it helped relax me.

Did you eat something differently this morning that would cause excessive gas like that?

Could be something you ate that set you off. Try to keep an eye on your diet.

I know I need to start writing down what I eat.  I'm lazy on that.  But I know I ate a pack of Hostess little powdered donuts.  I'm guessing those have quite a bit of yeast in them.  That is all I can remember that was unusual for me to eat.  Usually though, when I eat something stupid, I know it right away because I end in the bathroom either during or right after the meal.

The massage idea is one that my husband suggested last night too.  I work with babies and children with disabilities and the therapist often teaches parents infant massage.  So duh, I know how well that can work.  Obviously the pain caused my mind to go numb!  lol

The only CD med the doctor has me on is Asacol.  When I told him about this yesterday he said that if this becomes a common this, he would look at starting me on pred or Entocort.  Told him I had lousy reaction to pred years ago when I had optic neuritis and he said the Entocort would probably have fewer side effects.

Other meds - generic synthroid and cytomel for hashimoto's; xalatan for glaucoma; feldene for fibromyalgia; celexa for the fibro and mild depression.

Thanks again for everyone's concern and wisdom.  I'm more relaxed about things today.

@FunGuy - Eating a meal triggers peristalsis, the wave-like contractions which move food along the intestines. When people get an urge to go immediately after eating a meal, they're getting rid of whatever they ate several hours previously, or even the day before. But some people interpret it as food going "straight through" them. In reality it's simply not possible for food to go from stomach to anus in anything under a few hours - maybe an hour or two at the outside, if you have extremely severe diarrhoea.

As for the pain, I simply don't know :-/ I had an episode similar to the topic creator's about, I dunno, 7 or 8 years ago. It was in the days when my Crohn's was mild at any rate. The pain was so bad I made an emergency appointment at the doctor's surgery for the end of the day. But by that time the pain had gone away and the doctor didn't find anything wrong. Really weird, and although I've had pain since then, I've never had anything like that particular episode. I do think it was probably Crohn's related though.

If your pain persists and your doctor does not address it, it may be time to get a second opinion. A second opinion is never a bad thing and does not mean that you need to change doctors, but it does give you the opportunity to hear another solution. I noticed that you are not on a pretty mild med for your Crohn's disease and it may be worth talking to your G.I. about a different mainenance med. Asacol is used by many on here with mild Crohn's and is a good medication but sometimes the disease gets beyond what Asacol can control. If these pains keep coming, you need to make sure that they are addressed. Pain is your body's way of saying something is not right.