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Posted 6/30/2010 10:16 PM (GMT 0)
Does anyone get a weird "tight", almost feeling stressed feeling in their stomache before or during a flare?

Ive noticed that if I have a not so good day, that my middle almost feels like its wound up in a super tight ball...

Thoughts?
Posted 7/1/2010 1:20 AM (GMT 0)
I began to notice a few years ago that when I'm stressed my abdominal area tightens up with tension... but to be honest, I haven't been able to notice that particularly corresponding to flares for me.
I wonder if I'm talking about the same sensation you're describing or if what I felt was something else.
Posted 7/1/2010 1:49 AM (GMT 0)
These last few days I have been a bit stressed lately and I can definitely feel this "knot" then..it almost feels like Im SUPER hungry. (And I've just eaten.)

Could quite possibly be a correlation between that and stress.
Posted 7/1/2010 4:37 AM (GMT 0)
It's like my left side, the abdominals, all in knots, and anxiety attends that.

Not sure if it's part of low adrenal function. It's quite annoying. I'm sitting with a heating pad on it as I write
Posted 7/1/2010 6:04 AM (GMT 0)
Not sure if it is the same thing but I described it as if there was a massive stone in my stomach. Not a bunch of pebbles but a giant stone and I could also describe it as a tightness. It has never been accompanied with hunger tho or stress. It was one of the first symptoms that I remember back about 14 or 15 years ago way before I was diagnosed, it was accompanied with diarreah and mucus tho.

Like I said, I dont know if it was the same thing you are describing. Its gotten more extreme for me since then. When Im stressed out I can feel it in my stomach in a sort of way you described. I get the tight knotty feeling but if I dont go and lay down immediately it always turns into extremely sharp pain in my abdomen, where Im doubled over and sweating with the pain of it.
Posted 7/1/2010 2:44 PM (GMT 0)
I had this same feeling last weekend!!! Every time I ate or drank something I got that tight feeling in my tummy! I was also on my period and as soon as my period was over, it ceased.
Terrible feeling though!
Posted 7/1/2010 6:30 PM (GMT 0)
Sounds horrible...it could be inflammation, could be reflux, sould be something else going on. When you do see the GI, ask to be tested for h. pylori.

Can you take an antacid when you get that...and see if it helps?

q
Posted 7/2/2010 9:36 PM (GMT 0)
yes absolutely I get that tight feeling, stress can cause it for me. I go too long without taking sulfsalazine apparently it pops up after eating some foods. I often was wonder from the location if it was crohn's.
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