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Posted 7/25/2010 4:23 AM (GMT 0)
I am experiencing mid/right sided stomach pain, rumbling and pressure after meals; peppermint/Altoids really make it much worse. I've been under tremendous stress due to several other very painful disorders. The pain feels very similar to hunger pain.
Thankfully my uc has been quiet with firm stool and just a spot of blood on the stool every once in a while so I don't believe it's my uc. I also don't think it's colon related as peppermint always helps with ibs spasms. I've noticed taking a tums really helps; any thoughts? Gastritis perhaps?

Thank you
Posted 7/25/2010 6:06 AM (GMT 0)
Maybe acid reflux? Peppermint is supposed to be a trigger for it.
Posted 7/25/2010 6:09 AM (GMT 0)
Could be reflux or gas?

Maybe try digestive enzymes instead of peppermint. I like to use Natural Factors Bromelain plus Natural Factors Smooth Digest (fennel, anise, caraway). The problem could be peristalsis after eating and gas moving across the transverse colon.

Hope this improves, and it's good that your UC is doing quite well. Are you still using the enemas?

q
Posted 7/25/2010 8:01 PM (GMT 0)
IronTam,

I don't have any heartburn, does this hold true for acid reflux? Maybe I'm starting to get a duodenal ulcer from all the stress. I've been under trying to deal with all these new illnesses?

Q,

I have been using rectal meds as needed; lately Canasa which also helps keep inflammed hemmies quiet. The pain after having a few strong mints is a gnawing pain with some gas type bubbling, just don't know why peppermint would create gas?

Thanks all.
Posted 7/25/2010 9:51 PM (GMT 0)
peppermint doesn't agree with everyone and it's basically an irritant to some (salicylate) and can relax the sphincter and upper flap in the stomach/esophagus (forgot the name), so reflux is a possibility that you're having. I don't feel so good after having peppermint tea, but I chew peppermint gum.Don't take peppermint after you eat....maybe a while afterward.


Maybe request the doc to do a test for h. pylori.q
Posted 7/25/2010 10:00 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks Q. Hope to see my GI next week.
Posted 7/26/2010 4:57 AM (GMT 0)
Good you see him next week....maybe you should discuss upper GI scope too.

q
Posted 7/26/2010 6:42 AM (GMT 0)
I will as my last one was in May of 2007. I t appears I may have an ulcer caused by the h pylori you mentioned, what worries me is the very strong antibiotics it takes to knock this stuff out and it's potential negative effect on my uc.
Posted 7/26/2010 2:46 PM (GMT 0)
That's definitely true, but you have to get rid of it or suffer from a possible perforated ulcer if that's what indeed is going on.

q
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