cramping question

when we cramp, what does that indicate?

does it indicate:
some food isn't agreeing with us?
inflammation is flaring up?
bleeding?

Does anyone really know? I'd like to know what ya'll think.........

If you are talking about cramping in the legs or fingers, it is very common with prednisone. I was getting it a lot with the meds. I could indicate a potassium deficiency. A couple of banana's helped me a lot. I would review it with your doctor, though, since prednisone is only one possible cause.

Abdominal pain is part of dealing with IBD (even IBS), it could be food making the pain worse, but you can likely still get pain even when there's not much food in you....it's just part of the nature of the beast of having bowel issues.

For women abdominal pain can be caused by many things since our reproductive system is in the same area basically as our digestive system (large and small bowels)...everything's squished pretty close to each other, so that doesn't help either, having pains from mentration can cause added pains from the bowel area too.




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probably all of the above, but not all of the time....where exactly in the abdomen are you feeling the cramping? Spasming of an inflamed gut with or without food...it's how the gut reacts to inflammation. It's not functioning correctly.

You could ask your doc for a script of dicyclomine (antispasmodic/smooth muscle relaxant). 10mg is a good starting dosage. Works really, really, really well for me.


quincy