Fao Sqad

[Kathyan]

I was woken up this morning with severe stomach cramps. They lasted about 5 minutes and then eased off. I still have a slight ache but nothing I can't cope with. I have Ulcerative Colitis and wonder if it has something to do with that but the ache is further up above my tummy button although the cramps were further down.

[NoMercy]

A reasoned assumption based on the fact that the majority of people with Kath's condition would be, p'raps?

[MargoTester]

I had a c section 37 years ago and was in hospital 8 days(how times change) they used to give you white 'stuff' to shift the wind - always just before evening visiting, husband/ partners in those days, it worked wonderfully but most embarrassingly. The pain was worse than the operation. Sorry to go a bit of thread

[NoMercy]

Margo, they t055ed me out the next day with a carrier bag full of painkillers, iron tabs and Fragmin syringes.

[MargoTester]

I don't know how you coped NOM. I should have been in 10 days but as day 9 was a Saturday they let me out. In those days you had a full anaesthetic.

[Sqad]

Margo...your situation is different from that of Kathyn's.
pain after abdominal surgery that coming on in spasms, particularly after gynae /pelvic surgery is caused by bouts of paralysis in the small bowel ( paralytic ileus) which isn't the same as "trapped wind."

[Peter Pedant]

Why is AH being un-necessarily rude to old doctors ?
Doctors never die - they just run out of patience !
ter daah !

Sqad is of the generation of diagnosis from history and examination alone - armed only with a steth and a bottle of white mixture. The history will give you the diagnosis in 2/3 cases and the examination confirms it

and you know if you dont like his diagnosis -
go and see a doctor ....

and as for saying it is like barmaid not knowing the law
sorry I cant even form that thought - let alone hold it in my head for 2 seconds.

Now back to the girlie wiv guts ache
has it gone yet ?

[MargoTester]

Sqad, I realised that which was why I apologised for going off thread, it was just that trapped wind was mentioned and it brought back memories of my experience with it :-)

[Sqad]

PP

"The history will give you the diagnosis in 2/3 cases and the examination confirms it "

I was taught that in the vast majority of cases, if you hadn't made a diagnosis after listening to the patient,then examination would be unlikely to help.

[albaqwerty]

trapped wind is extremely painful.

PP, see page 2, Kathyan said she was feeling much better.

[NoMercy]

When the pain is accompanied by the passing of flatus, Sqad, surely it's a safe bet that it's trapped wind?

[Sqad]

NoM......quite.

With paralytic ileus.........one CAN't pass wind.

[Kathyan]

And I didn't (pass wind) it just went! I am feeling much better now thank you. I take medication for my UC (Pentasa) which keeps it under control. I don't particularly want to experience that again!