Re: Bowel / colonoscopy
From: Lori (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Oct 28 18:29:29 2004
Hi Kim,
I do not mean to be so candid about this, but I had digestion problems
and I did not know it. It seems the health industry norm is to have a
bowel movement 2 times a day or more... Sorry to be gross but if you
are not going often, toxins are staying in your body. My stomach used
to bloat up like a balloon and I had pain also that felt just like endo
pain. I was constipated occasionally before like you say but not
always.
I was going about every other day before and really thought this was not
a contributor. Boy was I wrong.
Sometimes diet is not enough and pain meds and other medications I hear
are the main contributors.
Their are many healthy remedies for this...
I hope you can find some resoultion,
God Bless
--
Lori
http://www.theendoclub.com
At Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Kim wrote:
>
>Hi all, since this has been a bowel type of day for the forum, I thought
>I'd get my questions in. I just had a colonscopy last week to rule out
>any bowel / GI type problems. My doctor suggested doing this before we
>proceed to the hyst. in dec. They didn't find anything last week
>regarding my bowels. He spelled out "Completely healthy colon, no
>inflammation, no redness, no polyps / masses or varicies. It is
>comforting to know that nothing else is wrong, but I am still really
>confused.
>It is hard for me to distinguish my bowel symtpoms from endo or if they
>are on in the same. About the same time last year I started having the
>unbearable pain (suffered from endo for about 7 years but was
>well-controlled until last year) and began taking pain medication to
>help with it. I cannot remember at the time before starting the pain
>medication if my bowel symptoms were there (who knew it would progress
>to this or I would have kept a journal) or if the bowel symptoms are
>only from the pain medication. The only bowel symptoms I have are
>constipation (at least once or twice a week I feel like I cannot BM) and
>pelvic / abdominal pain that goes from left to right depending on the
>day, or both sometimes. I would have never thought anything as far as
>GI, but my Dr. said my pain was a little high up and that during the
>lap he didn't see any endo on my bowels and didn't take pictures because
>"it looked normal." If anyone has similar concerns can you please e-mail
>me. I would love to go off the pain meds to see if the constipation
>part clears up, but again its not a daily problem and I take them daily-
>plus I don't beleive I could make it for a week without taking somthing.
>I don't have diarrhea or vomiting, but I do suffer from abnormal
>bloating, seeing that I am on Lupron... I don't have a cycle and
>shouldn't bloat like this. In my defense I have never had these types
>of problems and eat meticulously- count fiber grams to make sure I get
>25-30g and eat fruits and veggies with every meal--- anyone feel my
>pain?
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