Descending Colon Puns

Anyone else have this?

I have been having left flank and upper back (mostly left shoulder blade) pain for about seven months straight. The pain ranges from burning to sharp and stabbing and sometimes it hurts to breathe in. It is always in my back, never in the front (although sometimes I do feel my ribs on the left popping in and out over something when I breathe).

Every time I go to the bathroom it is a gigantic log that is at least a foot long. I would venture a guess it is the size of my entire descending colon. It barely fits in the toilet tbh.

I am just wondering if this is a sign that my descending colon, or all of my colon, is not breaking up stool the way it should. I was hospitalized in January with severe nausea and 20lb weight loss, as well as severe sharp left shoulder pain. In the hospital they had me swallow a pill cam, which didn't note any significant delays in transit, but they also had me on cymbalta, mirtazipine, and mestinon when I took it, and all three of those increase gut motility. So I feel the test was not an accurate measure of where I'm at. I'm just at a loss and my GI doctor is just a resident and isn't much help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale#/media/File:BristolStoolChart_(cropped).png

This morning I've been to the bathroom three times.

Twice I've managed to pass a small, lumpy, kind of misshapen piece, but it was pretty solid, not ragged (Type 2).

And then the third time it was a longer, sausage like smooth piece (Type 4).

And yet I still feel like there is something in my descending colon, a blockage of sorts (that's what it feels like).

I've been having various symptoms for the past five years now, the last three have been actually very gracious and I've had very mild symptoms, but in the past three weeks it seems like things have took turn for the worse.

Hi,

I appreciate the stickied post and the creation of this entire subreddit. It is good to know that I am not alone.

I would love advice (if any people have overcome this) around solving the pain that is in my lower left abdomen. By left, I mean my left facing away from me, and the area corresponds with the descending colon/sigmoid colon.

I am currently in the process of trying to dissect this thing. The timeline of events that has occurred is as follows:

1. March 2020: First onset of lower left abdomen pain
2. April 2020: Constipation, bloating gas
3. May-October 2020: I use miralax and just live with intermittent abdomen pain + bloating + gas. I was able to get a bowel movement every day, so I figured I would just live with whatever I suffered through.
4. October 2020: The lower left abdomen pain returns and I decide that I need to figure out what is going on. I am prescribed trulance, which always me to go through a bowel movement in the morning, but it does not stop the gas/lower left abdomen pain.

I am going to follow the stickied post and seriously get tested for everything in order to get to the bottom of this.

I have tried the following, all of which have not eased symptoms:

• Low FODMAP diet
• psyllum husk fiber
• probiotics
• gas x (which does help, but is it alright to take every day?)
• massaging and wind relieving poses

This is terrible and would love any advice that anyone can give.

21M

I’ve been having some bloating lately and mild constipation (I think) due to less poop sessions than usual and poop coming out as pebbles.

Today I had a decent bowel movement and felt like I emptied a lot.

However when I’m lying down my left mid/lower abdomen I can feel what I’m guessing is my colon. Is it normally palpable? It’s also firm and movable.

PS I’m fairly lean, not thin but have an almost flat stomach.

I'm 32M, 6' tall, athletic and 180 lbs. 18 months ago, i have been diagnosed by a GP physical exam with a very mild athletic pubalgia that feels like an impinged left hip crease nerve when sitting (and that still bothers me to this day).

Now, concerning my main problem (which might or might not be related, i have no clue) : 6 months ago, i started feeling discomfort on the same side of the body as the leg, on the left side of my abs, especially when sitting, but nothing too bad, just a feeling of pressure being applied there. After couple months, i lied on my back and started touching the area to see if i could feel anything there. It turned out it felt like a hard huge lump (generic picture with the area in red : https://imgur.com/5BwguTw) so i panicked and went to my GP again. He touched the area and said that my colon is indeed harder than it should be, but nothing to be worried about and gave me a laxative that i had to take 1 time a day for 20 days. It felt odd to me because i have a balanced diet with quite a few fruits and veggies and i poo once to twice a day (normal, solid, brown, big poo), but i went with it of course, and i feel like it slightly helped but no huge difference.

2 months later, still bothered by the same issue, i went to another clinic to get an echography and the doctor there said the same thing as the previous one : it is indeed a bit harder than it should be, maybe it's some kind of contracture, but according to the echography everything is as it should be and the athletic pubalgia is so mild that he can't even see it. He told me that it could possibly be a spine issue that i feel elsewhere because of the nerves that go around the core.

At this point i don't know if it's just psychosomatic, or if it could be a disease or something more serious like colon cancer. One thing i did notice is that the 4 or 5 times in the last 4 months that i have worn one pair of pants with a quite tight belt, i ended up having a change of bowel movements : the poo was black, nasty (took a while to wipe out) and if i recall correctly, there was less of a hard mass when touching the area afterwards, which probably suggests a blockage there ? I think i have listed everything, i have no problems before or after eating, no nausea or any other problems with my health, just this feeling as if i had a weight applying pressure on my left side of the core, especially when sitting. When i do lie down on my back, i also feel it,

CT scan results say 'There is decompressed descending and sigmoid colon.' What does that mean exactly?

Undergoing gallbladder surgery soon.

Backstory: I’ve been pretty sick recently following a gallbladder surgery in July. I’ve been going to the bathroom much more than normal, which I thought was just bile acid malabsorption. I started to get the very distinct and awful Crohn’s-like cramps and decided to let my doctor know. She ordered an MRI enterography even though I just had one in July which was spotless. I got the call this week that there are two new active areas of Crohn’s inflammation: in my descending colon and rectosigmoid. Ugh. I had been in remission since my bowel resection (removed my terminal ileum, cecum and appendix) in May 2017. Does anyone else suffer from this disease in the colon? I feel like I’m battling a whole new beast since I have only ever had Crohn’s inflammation in the terminal ileum area. I’m so totally bummed.

So guys yesterday i vomited... Alot, it was because i haven't eaten anything and when i did i threw it up, anyway i vomited probably 4-5 times emptying my stomach to the fullest each time, and i was straining super hard (as you do when you vomit) and today i woke up and i feel like my left side of my colon is so swollen, it feels like i just had surgery done there, i can barely move and when i do it hurts, literally feels like i have stiches there, took my daily dose of 30mg of pred but that's not helping, so any tips on how to loosen up my colon...(btw heat makes it worse i learnt that the hard way)

I know it varies person to person and based on what you eat, but curious to know a ballpark figure.

Question regarding my mother (caucasian 58, average height, little underweight due to several weeks in hospital )who had a colostomy on her descending colon 5 weeks ago, all her colon is still intact. Medication she is on is Ranitidine 2 times per day, paracetomol for the pain and last 3 days on a strong laxative Laxido prescribed by her local general practitioner who blamed her previous medication

The colostomy was to bypass a 2-3 inch adenocarcinoma in her tummy on right side (they are unsure of the origin still but believe it to be bowel/colon in all likelihood) that caused bowel issues with her ascending colon. They decided they could not cut it out when she had her surgery and will start chemo soon to try shrink it

My mother became severely constipated recently due to max strength co-codomol prescribed by her consultant who didnt prescribe her a laxative to take with it. She has ejected some very large and rock solid poops last 2 days from her stoma which were very painful and too big to come out so she had to help them out (constipation seems to be clearing up now) the pain pangs from the constipation have lessened greatly but now she has pain fromanother source ....

Last few days she has started to feel the urge to race to the toilet and mucus (clear and jelly like) has been coming out in quite large amounts from her rectum. This has been roughly 3 times 2 days ago when a lesser amount came out, 5 times yesterday and then today the floodgates where she has had to go and eject mucus every few hours in quite large amounts. This is accompanied by 15-20 minute bouts of severe pain which brings her to tears which then passes.

Prior to the last few days she had been ejecting mucus once or twice a week so this increase coupled with the pain has her slighly concerned. Her consultant is not reachable on the weekend and frankly since she is being passed over to an oncologist has limited interest and her GP wanted to treat her constipation

Is it normal to have so much mucus and should she be concerned? Is sharp intense pain passing the mucus normal? Could the laxative or constipation affect mucus production? Is it merely a build up from recent weeks? She was told by her ostomy nurse that it is normal for some people to be more frequent than others and to be daily is normal but every 2 hours with a high volume seems slightly abnormal.

No blood in the mucus and it is clear / white, no temperature or signs of infection.

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My heritage is nearly all Irish, with a bit of Polish and Cherokee Native, but enough to the point where I consider myself Irish in heritage. The Irish have a history, and even recent events, that should qualify us as historically oppressed indigenous people… However, even using the term “My people” feels like cringe, because I feel like I’m trying to steal the aesthetic from other ethnicities. Why is this? I feel like the claim is perfectly reasonable.

The Irish have had their culture suppressed for hundreds of years. Their religious ceremonies, history, and language have been intentionally snuffed out by Great Britain, to the point of Gaelic currently being a dying language, expected to disappear by the end of the century. The Irish potato famine was a nightmarish and manufactured event that killed over a million Irish, and resulted in millions having to undergo forced relocation, where they were met with discrimination in many of the places they went. From the 1960s to the late 1980s, something called “The Troubles” happened between Ireland and the UK, where tensions got so bad Irish nationalists began committing terror attacks on the British, often civilians. I am not well informed on this topic, and generally side against the IRA as I know they’re terrorists, and don’t want to accidentally endorse them - but clearly, as of even recently, the racial tensions have been extremely bad between the Irish and Great Britain.

Modern day Irish are not oppressed compared to POC, at least in the US, but how do they not qualify as having a history of oppression? Why do the harmful stereotypes of drunkard, short, red haired leprechauns have their own Holiday where major brands use them as ads with no backlash? Why do white people who are incredibly concerned over POC and their traumas not also advocate for the Irish? Why are we Irish lumped in as “White” when we have a distinct historical record of oppression compared to others? White people as a united race doesn’t exist, I agree with Hassan and H3H3, so when is it time to separate the Irish out and see us as oppressed indigenous people?

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It's disgusting how crazy people can be. Haha, the America's deserve to be invaded because they invaded. Which is also a gross generalization. Many people in North and South America are immigrants. Some are descendants of slaves, descendants of people whose ancestors were invaded and so on. It's stupid to keep harping on the whole 'colonizers = bad' and then use it to justify deaths or mistreatment.

Here's the thing. I acknowledge people might be benefiting from past horrors. it's fine to work towards a society that betters everyone. But you should not make people suffer to 'repay' for crimes they did not commit. Your reasoning shouldn't be 'because your ancestors did it' but instead 'lets make everyone better'.

By the way, I'm an immigrant. The current population is shitty. Shitty people still exist, but I'm not going to blame the entire group for being shitty. The current population in my country's ancestors were absolute shit to people like me, they still don't deserve anything. I am not going around demanding the descendants be culled.

The whole anti colonizer descendants mentality is really stupid and sad. You hear jokes like 'typical colonizer' like wtf

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