Hey guys so I'm F26 years old and have dealt with polycystic ovary syndrom (PCOS) for over a decade now. I've had most of the classic symptoms associated with the condition but I've never had a symptom quite like the stomach disention and bloating (which aren't necessarily typical in PCOS). The distension and bloating started back in August of 2019 one day and never went away. Morning, afternoon, and night it's there, even when I fasted for a colonoscopy! I can't wear any tight or form fitting clothes without looking like I'm pregnant, I've always been on the slender side so it looks so disproportionate. I've had an abdomnial x-ray, a pelvic ultrasound, an abdomen and pelvic CT scan, colonoscopyand endoscopy (biposies were taken) everything so far has come out normal. No celiac disease, ulcerative colitis, or hpylori. My doctor now wants me to do a SIBO test...could this be SIBO? I feel no pain but ever since the onset of my stomach distension and bloating, I do feel quite full after meals and I experience constipation on and off and incomplete bowl movements quite a bit. But generally, I just feel very full and uncomfortable with all the bloat. Just wondering what this is after almost 2 years
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my girlfriend has to go in for a this procedure (not sure how to spell it). what should she expect? and what can i do to help her?
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I have been vegan for six months and still have crazy bloating... it will literally wake me up in the night and cause me to have nightmares from the pain. Any suggestions?? I’ve been taking a probiotic and enzymes for a couple months. I also just started taking sakara powder in addition to those. They have helped, but my body still feels off. I’ve never felt worse, physically. I’ve always had a strong stomach and no digestive issues. Does it just take more time? Or is there a particular brand of probiotic I should try? Some sort of detox I can do? I’m desperate! Any suggestions welcome!
Does anyone go through phases where your gut goes through rapid switch between bloat and flatness?
Other patterns that I notice -
- Empty stomach, standing up - bloat
- Empty stomach lying down - flat
- After food, lying down - bloat
- After food, standing up - flat.
I am not noticing much gas or discomfort. Most of the time, this happens in the mornings, and resolves in the evening.
My stomach started growing in June. Over 10" to date. No weight gain.
I have zero poop issues, no gas, no stomach pains. I tried the FODMAP diet back in July for 2 weeks and it did nothing to shrink the increase in my stomach.
Doc 9 thinks it's SIBO. He said they can't do the test because of covid but put me on 2 weeks of antibiotics to see if it helps.
I've had a CT which showed appendicitis. Had that removed. A colonoscopy which showed nothing but a swollen appendix and cecum (all biopsies clean). Negative celiac test. Blood work is great. Ultrasound showed fatty liver which the mayo clinic later told me was a misdiagnosis.
My ONLY problem is my stomach is huge (I look 6 months pregnant) all the time. It never goes back down. I started at a 34" waist and now it's 44.5" (I only know these starting measurements because I joined a weightloss competition last year and lost 50lbs).
At the start of the year I was getting UTI's after sex and took 2 rounds of antibiotics (spaced 2 months apart). I have had multiple surgeries to remove pelvic adhesions from c-sections. I'm hypothyroid. I have osteoporosis. I'm lactose intolerant. To my understanding those are all things common with SIBO.
Can you really have SIBO with NONE of the complaints you all talk about? I didn't present clinically with my "appendicitis" so I'm just wondering if SIBO is a real possibility.
I get every body is different but this seems like it absolutely could be the cause. Just looking for thoughts and opinions.
I have IBS-C and have been low FODMAP for a while. I ate something a week ago which turned out to contain fructose and sorbitol (usually so good at checking labels but that’s what I get for buying food tipsy...). For the past week I’ve been so bloated and uncomfortable, constipated, and abdominal distension so bad I look at least 6 months pregnant.
I’ve tried exercise, stretches, massaging my stomach, peppermint tea / oil capsules, drinking plenty of water, but nothing seems to help and my stomach still isn’t going down. This is the worst flare up I’ve had in a long long time and I don’t know how to sort it.
Doesn’t help that this is setting off my anxiety which is probably in turn making the distension / bloating worse. Just feels like it’ll never go away.
Any tips?
I have been monitoring my symptoms and suspecting a connection between food, gastric distension and posture.
The big question was why I was able to sleep soon within an hour or two) after a carb meal, but if I waited more than 2 hours post meal, I would experience distension, bloating and burping, feel hot.. and then once the distension is gone, I would feel cold.
Today I decided to monitor my BP as I lay down about 2+ hrs after a meal.
12/17 1:10pm 101/80/110 - standing 108/77/84 A little dizzy when bending and standing up.. disrupted/less sleep this week. (4+ hrs avg).
115/85/85 - supine at 1:42pm Feel the heat, Released a lot of burps, feel the gut moving. 123/89/73 - supine at 2pm. Body cools down, legs feel cold, gut distension resolves.
There is increasing evidence that gastric distension plays a protective role in the regulation of postprandial blood pressure. So distension affects thermoregulation, BP and heart rate.
Now the big question is how to get the body to not wake up when it is doing its thing while asleep.
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpregu.00235.2010
I lift weights, am 5'2" and weigh 120lbs, so I am visibly muscular and not overweight. I have what is a pretty good diet, to the best of my ability to tell. I cook most of my food at home and make sure to include lots of vegetables, leaves, beans, eggs, and meat. However, I spend about 30% of my time with a completely flat stomach and 70% of the time looking quite pregnant. It feels like a pregnant belly too, in that it is firm (but not hard, like a growth) and clearly not fat.
I have noticed that dairy worsens it, so I often avoid that, but it is not only dairy. It is something else as well, or possibly multiple things. The big belly shows up only after a meal, but not after every meal, and it can last up to 3 days depending on the severity and whatever else I am eating in those 3 days.
If you were to ask me about other GI symptoms I had, I would say I'm generally a pretty gassy person, especially after eating some of whatever it is that causes this, but otherwise nothing too extreme, or maybe it's just what I'm used to.
What could be causing this, or what sort of doctor should I see about this?
Hey guys!
Does anyone else get random but severe bouts of abdominal bloating/distension? It happens to me at least a few times a week, often daily. Sometimes after I eat, sometimes even when I haven’t eaten all day. I can’t tell if it’s associated with my lupus or if it’s another thing entirely.
I don’t drink pop. I have messed around with higher and lower amounts of fiber. Even tried low fodmap. No luck!!! My GI said he had no explanation. Said take some Gas-x, but that didn’t help. I’m not constipated, either!
I’m a small person... but when I’m bloated like this I look like I’m far along in a pregnancy. It’s uncomfy for sure... pants that fit perfectly one minute are suddenly two sizes too small the next.
Anyone else have this? Is it a lupus thing, or a me thing? Any advice on how to combat it?
Thanks :) hope you’re all staying safe and healthy! ❤️
My symptoms include: Distended Abdomen Bloated feelings Change in bowel movement (no pooping even with laxatives) can poop when drinking psyllium fiber after eating almost immediately. but bloating remains. Frequent urination. Still bloated after pooping. No appetite (no hunger feelings) Lower left and mostly right tension in the ovaries (once diagnosed with PCOS) Increased in abdominal size Painful stretched skin due to distended abdomen Right part of abdomen is more stiff especially on the side
So I got COVID on March 16th, and my symptom timeline lasted about 18 days total. I had fever, dry cough, shortness of breath...all the usual symptoms if you will, as well as diarrhea on day 3 and 4.
However, for the last 2 weeks since getting better, I have had SEVERE bloating and abdominal distension that doesn't seem to go away whether I'm eating or not... it's just always there. I did not have this DURING my sickness, only since getting better.
Not to go into my bathroom habits in here, no one needs to hear that, but all is regular on that end, however I am constantly bloated and uncomfortable. Almost like my intestines are inflamed. My sister, who also was infected and in the same home as me, is having the same symptoms post infection. The only way i can explain it is we both feel like we're pregnant! And nothing seems to be making it better, ie antacids, etc.
I have no other symptoms of concern, like swelling or bloating anywhere else (legs hands, etc as I was worried it could be kidney issues), just my stomach area.
I'm not necessarily concerned about it at this point, but just curious if anyone has had similar symptoms. This is such a strange virus with such an array of symptoms for people I figured it couldn't hurt to ask others And if anyone has had similar symptoms, has anything helped?
I plan on getting a high end probiotic, as that's good for my immune system anyhow and figured could help if this nasty virus is possibly running around in my digestive track somewhere now!
Thank you and hope everyone is hanging in there!
I was reading about stomach ache and stomach diseases and I found the word 'distended', which led me to a page called abdominal distension. So distension is basically something which is swollen with air trapped in it/something wich is inflated, right? What is the difference?
I just got back from shopping and clothes all look like shit on me thanks to the distention. The last time I got an ultrasound my ovaries were double the average size so I'm wondering if that's what's doing it. So frustrating!!!
I had a reversal of my ileum to my rectum (IRA), so not quite a j-pouch but I believe similar incisions. It's been 2.5 weeks. My belly is still swollen, and as I eat, it grows and grows and becomes more and more uncomfortable. I have a bikini line incision and my lap sites (and obviously my stoma wound). Is this common? It's not an ileus as it grows throughout the day.
My current allergist believes that I have a mast cell disease (I have mastocytic enterocolitis - excessive numbers of mast cells in my gut). I have IBS, had SIBO/IMO, and the major IBS symptom is that I'm always distended and feeling bloated.
It can get so bad that I can barely breathe and I look like someone shoved a basketball in my abdomen. I actually start getting dizzy from lack of air and can't exercise. Even when I was eating only turkey meat, I was good for a month, then started getting distension again. There are no safe foods that leave me free from this symptom. I would fast, but I react to hunger and fasting, unfortunately.
My question: is this persistent distension actually from mast cell disease? I got no improvement to the distension from H1, H2 blockers and montelukast. Couldn't tolerate more than a few drops of cromolyn per day. Quercetin doesn't seem to help much. Did xolair help anyone with distension when other meds did not? I have not tried it yet.
My only major symptoms are bloating and severe abdominal distension (0-6 months pregnant over the course of a day). My symptoms are much better, though not totally gone, with a very strict low FODMAP diet (which I do not / cannot regularly follow), so there is definitely a connection to carbohydrate malabsorption. Last January, I had a breath test where I produced 70 ppm H2 and 17 ppm CH4 at the 90 minute mark, with the final numbers over 80 and 20 ppm respectively. Over the year I tried Rifaximin (550 mg 3/day x 2 weeks), then FC Cidal+Dysbiocide (2 each 2/day x 6 weeks), then Augmentin (dose? 2/day x 2 weeks). My symptoms have not changed at all - I still look pregnant at the end of most days. Today, I had a follow up breath test where I produced 30 ppm H2 and 0 ppm CH4 at 90 minutes, with final values of over 40 H2 and 1 CH4.
What next? The methane/archaea problem is apparently gone. The Hydrogen/bacteria are still an issue. Could my symptoms still be the same if I'm producing less gas? I've heard that the generally accepted wisdom is that Rifaximin cuts down about 30 ppm H2 with one round, which is pretty consistent with my results. So then should I do another round of Rifaximin?
Are there other reasons for abdominal distension that I should also get checked out?
Hoping I can get some insight here, I'm 26 years old and have dealt with polycystic ovary syndrom for over a decade now. My periods have always been irregular and I've had most of the classic symptoms associated with the condition but I've never had a symptom quite like the stomach disention and bloating, which started back in August of 2019 one day and never went away. Morning, afternoon, and night it's there, even when I fasted for a colonoscopy! I can't wear any tight or form fitting clothes without looking like I'm pregnant, I've always been on the slender side so it looks pretty disproportionate. So far I've had an abdomnial x-ray, a pelvic ultrasound, an abdomen and pelvic CT scan, a colonoscopy, and my doctor recently ordered the CA 125, the only thing left is a transvaginal ultrasound...everything so far has come out normal. Could it be the bloating is due to ovarian cancer? I feel no pain but ever since the onset of my stomach distension and bloating, I do feel quite full after meals and I experience constipation on and off and incomplete bowl movements quite a bit. But generally, I just feel very full and uncomfortable with all the bloat. My grandma had cervical cancer but other than that no family history. Just wondering what this is after almost 2 years
I had a reversal of my ileum to my rectum (IRA). It's been 2.5 weeks. My belly is still swollen, and as I eat, it grows and grows and becomes more and more uncomfortable. I have a bikini line incision and my lap sites (and obviously my stoma wound). Is this common? It's not an ileus as it grows throughout the day.
