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Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:00 pm
by DarknessEmbraced
I'm going to go back to liquids for now. I was having toast, bananas, cream of wheat and pretzels. Today, tremendous pain and very painful diarrhea. I ended up taking a dilaudid. I don't know if I could have toradol because NSAIDS are bad for my high blood pressure. At least if I have diarrhea the colon prep on Wednesday should be easier with less in my colon to clean out. Dilaudid is helping.

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:56 pm
by peanut_8
Have you been tested for a gluten intolerance or Celiac disease? Cream of wheat and pretzels could have aggravated it.
Best Wishes, peanut

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 3:00 pm
by DarknessEmbraced
I've never been tested for celiac disease but wouldn't that show up in the colonoscopy or would that require a upper endoscopy? It seems like any food I eat aggravates my digestive system unfortunately even just liquids. Gluten has never bothered me in the past. I will mention to my surgeon when I see him for the colonoscopy follow up.

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 3:27 pm
by Steph20021
You poor thing, you can't seem to catch a break! Sending hugs.

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:02 pm
by peanut_8
It sounds like there is no test for Celiac itself, butt they use a blood test to detect anti-bodies your body produces in response to gluten. So apparently they can't tell from just looking.

Here's a link, it looks like the symptoms are similar to your's DE.

http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-informa ... #diagnosed

Best Wishes, peanut

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:14 pm
by DarknessEmbraced
Thanks for the link peanut. I do have many of the symptoms. I also have the symptoms of ischemic colitis:

Pain, tenderness or cramping in your belly, which can occur suddenly or gradually
Bright red or maroon-colored blood in your stool or, at times, passage of blood alone without stool
A feeling of urgency to move your bowels
Diarrhea
Nausea

The only symptom I don't have right now is the bleeding. I hope I don't have gluten intolerance or celiac disease in addition to ischemic colitis because gluten free foods are more expensive. I will ask the surgeon about doing an endoscopy as well.

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:50 pm
by peanut_8
That sounds like a good plan DE. Hope you feel better soon.

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:09 pm
by Sams wife
Maybe you could get an allergy test. A friends kid had really bad belly problems & she ended up with weird allergies. Like eggs & tomatoes.
Maybe it would show a wheat allergy?

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:10 pm
by DarknessEmbraced
I've had skin allergy testing. It has only shown my severe tree nut allergy and environmental allergies. I was tested for eggs and wasn't allergic.

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:35 pm
by Joannerogers
I'm sorry you are feeling bad, feel better soon.

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:11 pm
by teachpdx
I hope you get some relief and sorry that you're having such a tough time. I think the test for celiac's is a blood test. Hope you don't have to give up gluten on top of everything else. :?

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:22 pm
by Lee
Good luck with your upcoming prep. I hope the Dr can find the cause for all your diarrhea and pain.

(((HUGS))) thinking of you.

Lee

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:26 pm
by DarknessEmbraced
The biopsy during the sigmoidoscopy showed ischemic colitis. The blood supply to my colon was reduced. The surgeon said it's like having a heart attack in your colon. He's doing the colonoscopy to see if there are more areas that have reduced blood supply. I won't find out the results the same day but will have a follow up appointment. They have to find the reason for my ischemic colitis. He mentioned surgery to remove the damaged areas as a possibility.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-cond ... n-20026677


Thanks for the hugs and the good luck with the prep.

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 12:19 am
by Sams wife
Now that I read what you posted I think I mentioned that before. Oops. Haven't gotten to look up ischemic colitis yet but anything with colitis isn't any good. I hope it's just an easy fix for no blood supply. Hope the liquids are better on you. Good luck on Wednesday.

Re: Diarrhea is back and more pain

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:32 am
by O Stoma Mia
In 2014, DarknessEmbraced wrote:After my colonoscopy my doctor said that he had found a mass in my colon... He told me that I have colon cancer. He showed me where it was on a diagram. I think he said that it was at the junction between the rectum and the sigmoid... My symptoms have been abdominal pain and cramping, bowel spasms, urinary and bowel urgency, full feeling in abdomen, maroon colored stool sometimes, sometimes just pass blood, fatigue, weakness(sometimes), abdominal tenderness on the lower left side...

According to the Mayo Clinic "ischemic colitis" article that you cited,
Any part of the colon can be affected, but ischemic colitis usually causes pain on the left side of the belly area (abdomen).

When you were first diagnosed in 2014, you said that one of your original symptoms was "tenderness on the lower left side". My question now would be: If you are diagnosed with ischemic colitis at this point in time, have you had this condition all along, even before your LAR surgery, or could this be the result of some kind of damage that might have occurred due to the LAR procedure itself? -- i.e., could something have gone wrong in the surgery to block off some important blood vessels in your left abdominal area?

Are you still having abdominal tenderness in the same place that you had it before your surgery in 2014?

In the past year, you have experienced quite a few different health problems. Do you have a medical team that is able to look at all of your health problems at the same time to see if there is a pattern? Some of your non-cancer chronic illnesses may be requiring medications that are incompatible with each other and which then have undesirable side effects on bowel control. In my opinion, you need to have a medical team of several different kinds of specialists that can sit down together and look at your whole medical history and see how the different conditions, medications, and treatments are interacting with each other -- including any self-medication using non-prescription, Over-The-Counter products.