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Posted 8/6/2016 6:57 PM (GMT 0)
The past year, I have been taking Imuran and have been very pleased with it, (very little symptoms). A week ago I got extremely nauseous and started throwing up out of nowhere. I felt fine when I woke up and this happened about 2 hours after I ate breakfast. My GI said my symptoms (cramping, vomiting, not passing gas in the beginning) sounded like I had a partial obstruction but that it fixed itself.

While I am not throwing up anymore, my stomach still feels like there is something wrong with it, although the cramping has stopped. I am starting Xifaxan today so hopefully this will help, but just wondering if anybody has any suggestions on what else I could do to make the symptoms (some nausea, can't eat anything besides soup, upset stomach) go away? Also, what to do if I have another bout of vomiting? It seems like anytime I throw up, it takes me about 2 weeks to fully recover.
Posted 8/6/2016 8:17 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Comet,
Sorry you are going through all of this.
What tests have you had done, what's your doctor's plan of action? You need him/her to find the cause of the partial obstruction if you don't already know. Is it a stricture or narrowing from inflammation? It could easily become an emergency and you do not want a total obstruction. If you start vomiting again you need to head to the ER. Unfortunately The symptoms will not go away until the narrowing has been dealt with so the best you can do is stay on a liquid or puréed diet. I dealt with a partial obstruction followed by stricture for several months and no amount of anti nausea meds would help. Hope you get some relief soon!
Posted 8/6/2016 8:35 PM (GMT 0)
I agree that you need testing to see if you have a stricture....a CT scan SBFT or MRE. I suggest staying on a liquid diet until you know you are ok.
Posted 8/6/2016 9:14 PM (GMT 0)
I also think you should go to the ER or at least have your GI rush labwork and make sure the imuran did not cause pancreatitis.
Posted 8/10/2016 2:54 AM (GMT 0)
My son had this same thing happen last winter (February) and the only thing that helped him was a soft diet / liquid diet. He never did completely feel "right" - his was more complicated because of also having C - diff with it (similar symptoms with both). He eventually (one month later) had 4 inches of his small / large intestine removed (Ti / appendix) and feels so much better! He was on remicade, pentasa, imuran / ferrous sulfate at the time of his surgery and is now taking imuran and remicade. Best wishes to you and I Hope you feel better soon!
Posted 8/15/2016 7:47 PM (GMT 0)
I had partial obstructions over the last 15 years. In 2010 they got worse and worse, I was vomiting every other day and had constant pain. One day the obstruction became complete, ended up in the hospital for 8 days on IV and waiting for it to pass by drinking lots of liquids. At that point I had to for for surgery which happened one month later, was hardly eating anything and lost 50 pounds in the process. The area of the stricture was 4 feet long and the surgeon could not believe how anything could possibly have passed through.

If your vomiting frequency increases it is not going to get better, it is the main sign that it is time for surgery.

I now have another obstruction around the anastomosis for the last two years. When it begins to close I feet bloated like a frog, the abdomen increases by three inches in size. I have not vomited or have pain so I am living with it since having surgery will further reduce my already short bowel and create another anastomosis were the disease will restart.

I manage it by chewing food over and over, drinking lots of liquids, and taking digestive enzymes with every meal (helps breaking down the food into chyme which passes through easily).
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