Fairly sure I had a partial obstruction last night

The build up began on Friday. Was having problems then actually, but I sensibly ignored them in favour of coming downstairs and drinking chocolate liquor with my mum and her friend. So chocolately and nice. Fell asleep easily enough, but woke up to a bad stomach. Ended up taking paracetamol and codeine and that did the trick for a while. Beautiful sunny day. Took the friend's dog out for a nice, long walk in the fields. Later on, I didn't feel like a well bunny. (No fever though; or if there was it must have been a very mild one.) It wasn't until the middle of the night that the worst of it hit me, however. Waves of bad colicky pain, which was just short of excruciating. Nausea. Frequent toilet visits to pass tiny amounts of stool, 'cos the colicky pain was doing a number on my colon as well. Horrible, burning anal itching (sorry). Couldn't possibly hope to sleep through it, so I just went downstairs with a book and drank cups of hot water until it partially resolved - which it did.

Been better today, but I still have the sense of being in a mild to moderate flare up. I hope my recent MRI scan backs me up; I worry it won't show anything :-/

Thanks, gumby. Appreciated.

The MRI scan was 10 days ago, whereas the suspected partial obstruction was last night. Sorry, didn't mean to make that bit confusing. I'm hoping a stricture will show up on my MRI scan - because if it doesn't, I'll probably have a hard time convincing my consultant that anything is amiss.

Anyway, at least I should have a better sleep tonight, I hope :-/

ouchies!! xoxo

I think I have one too.. been SOOOO sore the last couple of days. even taking 4 teaspoons of epsom salts a day is doing nothing except bloat my tummy :-( So you reckon warm water helps?

Sorry that you are suffering. I have been through this a lot and have never known that this is partial obstruction. My GI never told me this. I remember when I had this I used to increase pentasa to the utmost, take a variety of antispasmodics and stay on Ensure.
Hope you feel better soon:)