D, stomach pain, and body pain

last night was awful. i got home from work, took a shower, and about 5 minutes after getting out of the shower, i was doubled over in pain. this was at 11:30 at night. i took a pain pill that i take when i get flares... no help. i took gas pills... no help. finally, around 5am i fell asleep. 9:30 am i woke up for class and within 5 minutes of getting up, i was in the bathroom with D. i'd had D yesterday morning too and had taken 1 immodium. i've been having D for the last couple of days, but it's getting worse. i did have issues with my LDN prescription (see my other posts, but in sum, they put lactose in my pills and i am severely lactose intolerant. i went back on the liquid about a week ago) but before that issue, i was in remission. in addition to feeling like crap, my body is absolutely killing me. i feel like i was hit by a mack truck. WHAT'S GOING ON??????????? i generally have C-dominant UC and suddenly i'm having all this D. my mom suggested i lessen my stool softeners for a few days, which worries me because i'm always afraid i'll go in the opposite direction, but it's worth a try. my biggest problem right now is it's my last semester of college and i vowed not to be sick. i went into the semester feeling great and now things are awful! i'm so angry and worried that something really bad is going on...

... oh yeah, and my GI is 4 and a half hours away!

no fever and i didn't eat anything out of the ordinary... idk.

Oh that stinks Rpg...I'm sorry you're feeling punky :(

I know nothing of the naltrexone so I don't know how long it takes to digest.

It sounds like your going through the worst of it, what i had for almost 10 days! I woke up 4 times in the night with horrible pain and stayed in the bathroom. Let your body recover before you shove all these horrible pills down your throat! If your throwing up its your body telling you it wants whatever is there to get out of there, and you have to go through some of the pain to alleviate whatever is bothering it, not everything can be fixed via medicine. Try to get some rest, drink lots of water, not sugars or fats.

stereofidelic89 said...
It sounds like your going through the worst of it, what i had for almost 10 days! I woke up 4 times in the night with horrible pain and stayed in the bathroom. Let your body recover before you shove all these horrible pills down your throat! If your throwing up its your body telling you it wants whatever is there to get out of there, and you have to go through some of the pain to alleviate whatever is bothering it, not everything can be fixed via medicine. Try to get some rest, drink lots of water, not sugars or fats.

i generally don't take that much medicine at once, but i had classes the next morning and was in so much pain that i couldn't sleep. i know that it needed to get out, but at that point, it was just horrible pain and i just wanted it to go away. i was crying and screaming and i was afraid i was going to get a noise complaint

thanks for the advice though

i don't know. i was in temple and felt like i was gonna puke and was in really bad pain. went into the restroom and just passed gas for a bit then returned to services. luckily, (i believe) the power of prayer made me feel a little bit better and i was able to enjoy services, but i did log on to ask even though i shouldn't be using the computer. i felt like i had to go but couldn't. usually if i haven't gone in 2 days, they consider me constipated, but i didn't think about the effect of the D and the puking.

2 or 3 days. i had D on sunday, then the pain, D on monday and tuesday, vomited on thursday and now nothing.

If you feel like you're constipated you can go several routes. My personal favorite is juicing apples - I have random bouts of constipation due to diverticulosis and I found that by juicing apples that it helps me get going without the harsh chemicals found in some laxatives. But there was one time, after an out patient surgery, that I didn't go for 6 days and I had to end up doing Miralax (per my GI's instructions) and that seemed to do the trick.

But 2-3 days is really not that bad, UNLESS you are feeling full, bloated and generally rotten from it?

rpgdancer,

One more thing, if you're not drinking enough water, that could compound the constipation.

You could start by drinking more water and see if that helps, if not, then how about adding some benefiber to it?

Welches grape juice always makes me have to go to the bathroom. Maybe you could try that or just good ol' prune juice to get things moving?

You could also try eating some baked apples without the skin, or warming up some applesauce if you have it. That may help soften things a little.

Skin free baked apples really have no affect on me Uc wise, so my guess is that it probably wouldn't be as effective as the juice. Apple juice goes right thru me so poop juice it definitely is! lol