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Posted 4/18/2010 8:28 AM (GMT 0)
Hey everyone

It's 1:15 am here at my house and I am up and sick as a dog... I woke up around 10:30 with the most HORRID cramps!!!! After a couple of white knuckling trips to the bathroom and some "on the edge" nausea, I think I'm finally over the worst of it.... I'm still cramping up occasionally, but nothing like earlier.. I think one or two more trips to the pooper and I'll hopefully feel better.. (which I just had to interrupt this posting to do just that.. WOOOOIEEEE.. my POOR poopie hole.... ) Not a good time to be out of baby wipes... UGH

Don't know what caused this.. haven't the slightest clue... All I know is it SUCKS.... Man, I'm not eating a THING tomorrow...

I wonder if this has anything to do with my hormonal cycling being so out of whack... Gosh, I hope not...
Posted 4/18/2010 10:55 AM (GMT 0)
OK... about 10 liquipoopies later and my poor poopie hole~~~ OMG~~~~!!!!!!!!

What can I put on it to make it not burn so badly?? I'm still going, although the cramps are starting to let up some.. iit's now almost 4am... no sleep... When hubby wakes up, I'm sending him to the store for some baby wipes, but what kind of ointment can I use to help the burn? Thank GOD the Nausea is almost gone at least... whew.... what a night.... now if I can just get the cramps to really stop I can maybe go back to sleep for a few hours...
Posted 4/18/2010 11:33 AM (GMT 0)
Bentyl really helps with cramping. It goes directly to that area. Pretty cheap RX too.
Feel better soon :-)
Posted 4/18/2010 12:53 PM (GMT 0)
Try A&D with zinc for an ointment. It is soothing.
L
Posted 4/18/2010 1:09 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks everyone

I'm not feeling much better, nausea is picking back up a little and still going about 1x per hour.. I think I'm gonna go to the ER.. Waiting for GI to call me back right now....... I feel so bad...
Posted 4/18/2010 1:19 PM (GMT 0)
sorry you are feeling so bad.  I hate the nighttime poos.  I find that dampening a bit of toilet paper with Whichhazel to wipe and clean the area after going really helps.  I was recommended to use it in the hospital after childbirth to help with a hemmoroid.  It has a cooling effect and you can find it in any drugstore.  Then after the area dries I use Dr Boudreaux's Butt Paste.  It has a higher concentration of zinc oxide then most other diaper creams.  It is found in the baby aisle.  If you really want to splurge on the best ever diaper cream, it is called Triple Paste.  Very expensive, but has the highest concentration of zinc oxide of any diaper cream over the counter.  My daughters pediatrician recommended it when my daughter had horrible blisstered diaper rash as an infant.  It forms a very protective barrier over the affected area so subsuquent poos dont stay on the sore area.

Posted 4/18/2010 6:19 PM (GMT 0)
Definitely a good idea to go to the ER....let us know what happens Susie.

Poor you...no break yet!

Hope they do an ultrasound to see if there's anything else going on.

q
Posted 4/18/2010 9:01 PM (GMT 0)
     Hope you are feeling better Susie.  Let us know!!  Geez girl, you sure are going through H*** lately.
Posted 4/18/2010 9:18 PM (GMT 0)
Poor thing. Calmoseptine helped me when my behind was in bad shape.

I hope you are feeling better & getting some help at the ER.

Posted 4/19/2010 1:54 AM (GMT 0)
Calmoseptine is all I use. I HAVE to use it before rectal meds as they make me soooo sore and red and swollen - they work inside but not good on the outside when they drip, etc. Feel better
ElaineNY
Posted 4/19/2010 2:51 AM (GMT 0)
Hi everybody...

Funny thing.. I called my GI this morning at 6am and was waiting for him to call me back.. While I was waiting, I started feeling a little better so drank a few sips of water... waited about 10 minutes then drank a few more sips... Started feeling a bit better so sent my hubby down to the store to get me some gatorade, butt wipes and Tucks medicated pads... When he got back, I drank a little gatorade and was able to keep all that down and the cramps started subsiding.. I decided not to go to the ER since I was feeling a bit better.. My GI never called me back, he must not have gotten the page because he ALWAYS calls back.. Well, I fell asleep shortly after having some gatorade and slept until 5pm today... I got up and drank an ensure and started cramping up a little, but it passed so I'm back in bed.. I think I'll stick to gatorade until tomorrow and call my GI and see if he wants me to go into the hospital anyway for testing.... now would be a good time for a Scope... I was pooping water all night.. lol... I still feel pretty crappy, but nothing compared to last night.. Thanks for the well wishes everyone... Made me happy to have something positive to read :)
Posted 4/19/2010 3:26 AM (GMT 0)
Yep, I was going to say I would get the bentyl, but someone beat me to it.  I found it does help with the cramps, sometimes it just delays the inevitable, but it is still usually a little less painful.  At least it lets me sleep.
Posted 4/19/2010 3:28 AM (GMT 0)

Susiebuddy said...
Hi everybody...

Funny thing.. I called my GI this morning at 6am and was waiting for him to call me back.. While I was waiting, I started feeling a little better so drank a few sips of water... waited about 10 minutes then drank a few more sips... Started feeling a bit better so sent my hubby down to the store to get me some gatorade, butt wipes and Tucks medicated pads... When he got back, I drank a little gatorade and was able to keep all that down and the cramps started subsiding.. I decided not to go to the ER since I was feeling a bit better.. My GI never called me back, he must not have gotten the page because he ALWAYS calls back.. Well, I fell asleep shortly after having some gatorade and slept until 5pm today... I got up and drank an ensure and started cramping up a little, but it passed so I'm back in bed.. I think I'll stick to gatorade until tomorrow and call my GI and see if he wants me to go into the hospital anyway for testing.... now would be a good time for a Scope... I was pooping water all night.. lol... I still feel pretty crappy, but nothing compared to last night.. Thanks for the well wishes everyone... Made me happy to have something positive to read :)

I have found that when I am on this side of things a can of campbells chicken noodle soup is pretty good.  With crackers and/or a PBJ sandwich.
Posted 4/19/2010 4:05 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks everyone again :)

I just talked to my GI and he's the greatest! He is going to call me back tonight after he can see about getting me in tomorrow for a scope, at the least a flex sig, but he will sedate me to see just how far he can get since I've gone about 15 times with mostly water coming out.. I told him I had One ensure and that it started my cramping up again.. so he said to stay on a liquid diet until he can get me in... if he cant squeeze me in tomorrow in his office that he'll do it Tuesday am for sure.. But I'm to stay on a liquid diet until them in either case.. which probably won't be hard since I feel so crappy still... My colonoscopy was originally scheduled for the 14th of next month, but feeling like this it might be a blessing that now it's going to probably be done in the next day or two..

He also said if I get worse in any way, to get my butt up to the hospital and he will have me admitted until we can figure out for sure what's going on... In a way I'm relieved, but scared at the same time... But hopefully I'll have an answer sooner than later..

Thanks for all the support...
Posted 4/19/2010 6:37 AM (GMT 0)
Sounds like a good plan....let us know the outcome.

q
Posted 4/19/2010 2:46 PM (GMT 0)
Hey Everyone

My GI called me back last night at about 11pm and said for me to be in his office at 1:45 and he's going to do a scope as far up as he can go.. He never got my page yesterday morning because he was at the hospital all day... I haven't had anything to eat since Saturday afternoon and all I had yesterday was 1 insure and some gatorade and I'm pretty sure I just got rid of that this morning.. I feel horrible, but I do feel better than I did Saturday night.. woooooooie, that was a tough night... At least I'll get some relief when they give me that pre-scope medicine... :D Wanna hear something weird??? That right sided pain I've been having constantly since December is gone this morning.. probably because my colon is empty... but at least for now, it's gone....

I'll let you all know the results after I get home and wake up a bit....
Posted 4/19/2010 2:49 PM (GMT 0)
I find sometimes even the wipes hurt, so I buy the Cetaphil gentle skin cleanser. It comes in a pump plastic bottle. A little of that on some soft tp cools the most irritated skin. If you shop at Walmart you can find the generic version for 3.50 less than Cetaphil. It doesn't have a pump though. It really is a great product. Be sure to buy the gentle skin cleanser - not the daily facial cleanser.
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