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Re: Abdominal Bloat @ 50From: Abby (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:30:20 -0600 (CST)
>-----Original Message----- >From: anonymous@obgyn.net [mailto:anonymous@obgyn.net On Behalf >Of Jane Doe >Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 3:54 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list WOMENS-HEALTH >Subject: Abdominal Bloat @ 50 > >I will be 50 in a few months. For the last several months I have been >having severe abdominal bloating, especially noticeable after eating >even relatively miniscule amounts. I rarely eat any more than a small >cup of soup at a time any more, and even that blows up my stomach like a >balloon, so much I can barely breathe. The only other time I >experienced anything like this was decades ago during the 9th month of >my 4 pregnancies, when I remember feeling unable to breathe because >there was no room for my lungs to expand. Thats what it feels like now, >too, after I eat anything at all, and I really hate that feeling. > >I have not yet passed through menopause, but there is truly no way that >I could possibly be pregnant at this time. I was divorced 10 years ago >and have not had sexual relations since my divorce. Besides I am still >having regular periods every month. > >The bloating is not painful (other than the discomfort of not being able >to breathe) and not accompanied by gas or constipation or diarrhea or >anything like that. However I have had episodes of vomiting that were >very much like "morning sickness" of pregnancy too (wierdly enough). It >> >-- >I went to my Dr, who said it was probably gas & I should take Tums which >would also help prevent osteoporosis. I tried that but it does not seem >to help at all, so my Dr. suggested that it was probably from an >"unconscious pregnancy wish."
>Did your doctor actually examine you? Any doctor who would dismiss lengthy bouts of fullness, bloating and vomiting in a 50 year old women as "probably just gas" or a "subconscious wish to be pregnant" is not a good doctor. Go to another one, insist on a pelvic exam, colorectal exam, and an ultrasound. Depending on the ultrasound results you may need some further tests. If ultrasound is inconclusive, insist on further tests. If I were you I would want to rule out ovarian cancer first. Then go to a GI doc.
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