Anyone recognize this type of stomach ache
Maybe someone here has similar stomach aches.
I know I have a sensitive gut system and have done allergy tests and other tests in the past and eventually the doctors said it’s ‘just IBS’ and to try FODMAP etc.
TMI:
About once or twice a year I have sudden severe cramps that make me nearly pass out and eventually those are followed by diarrhea.
This time in the past three weeks I have suffered from mild to severe stomach aches where two of those did not lead to diarrhea.
I suspect I had food poisoning the first time it happened (three weeks ago) and have also read on syncope and other people going through similar things.
I had a sudden stomach ache come up (almost always in the evening. Sometimes several hours after dinner) that worsened quickly and left me quite debilitated. I felt very faint and could only lie in bed clutching my belly and it feels like someone is scraping my insides with something metal. A persistent, constant raw feeling. And sometimes a sharp jab here and there.
It was hard to focus on anything but the pain and I was focussing on breathing deeply but the pain almost leaves me breathless.
It’s not always accommodated by being bloated but I feel it up on the right above my belly button and spreading all to the left and up. IDK if it’s my stomach or intestines but it makes me not be able to think straight. Or think at all.
After the first ‘episode’ I had a whole day of extremely liquid diarrhea and feeling weak. After two days I felt like myself again.
But then last week a couple of days ago I had the same pains again waking me up in the night.
And now in the middle of the day it started again.
What could it be and does anyone recognize this? It’s hard to describe. I feel like only sleeping it away helps cause the pain meds don’t do much. It feels higher up in my stomach than the once or twice a year lower gut cramps I mentioned earlier that have caused me to faint before.