Constipation question?! Happy Easter All?!
Question: I have been constipated for a few days now from pills I am. I fell on the ice and gave myself whiplash so I was on many painkillers a day. Short story, they ended up constipating me.
Last night after I ate dinner I started getting indigestion pain and went to bed (probably bad move). About 2 in the morning I woke up with a severe pain in my upper abdomen and between my shoulder blades in my back. It's like someone is tightening a belt around my whole torso for about 5-10 seconds each time it contracts....?!?! I took Ovol (which I think is the same as Gas-x) and it cut it for about an hour until I woke up again with the same pain. I just took a few senokot and it is beginning 2 work, I just went to the bathroom, but i still have a mild pain? Will it go away?
I am not a suffer of any heartburn or indigestion so I wouldnt know.....Not usually a suffer of constipation either but with the anti-inflammatories it is a different story
Thanks!!!
Age:25
Weight: 135 lbs
Healthy
Answers: I have been constipated for a few days now from pills I am. I fell on the ice and gave myself whiplash so I was on many painkillers a day. Short story, they ended up constipating me.
Last night after I ate dinner I started getting indigestion pain and went to bed (probably bad move). About 2 in the morning I woke up with a severe pain in my upper abdomen and between my shoulder blades in my back. It's like someone is tightening a belt around my whole torso for about 5-10 seconds each time it contracts....?!?! I took Ovol (which I think is the same as Gas-x) and it cut it for about an hour until I woke up again with the same pain. I just took a few senokot and it is beginning 2 work, I just went to the bathroom, but i still have a mild pain? Will it go away?
I am not a suffer of any heartburn or indigestion so I wouldnt know.....Not usually a suffer of constipation either but with the anti-inflammatories it is a different story
Thanks!!!
Age:25
Weight: 135 lbs
Healthy
Give it another day or two and you will be fine. I had the same problem, last week, happened on my bday! what a present! I drank apple juice and had the cramps, they are not fun. You will be ok
More than likely it will go away as your body sorts itself out, I don't know why we get those pains all the way up to our backs during constipation but they should stop once you've cleared yourself out hopefully
Keep going to the bathroom and take in lots of water it will help along with the senokat
It will go away. Try upping the fiber in your diet slowly, adding a few grams a day until you're off the pain meds. Also, a stool softener (NOT a laxative) helps if you take it at night before you go to bed. We always give patients docusate (colace) with pain meds.