Re: Bowel / colonoscopy
From: Paige (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Oct 28 20:01:32 2004
Hello!
I feel your pain! I have had endo for 12 years, but 1 1/2 years ago my
gyno sent me to see a GI who did a colonoscopy. I had severe
constipation and pain as well. The colonoscopy proved to me normal.
This past spring I had a few colonics done. This seemed to help a lot
and has gotten me through until now. It could take away any pain and
discomfort you may have due to constipation and make your bowel
movements more regular, but obviously doesn't take away the endo. I
think that one is related to the other. It is a relatively inexpensive
to try (in Arizona it was $120 for three colonics). Just a thought....
Paige
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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