Severe Pain?

[CNewman]

So- lesson learned NO DAIRY! I couldn't help it, I had a piece of celery with bleu cheese dressing on Monday. I miss cheese, I miss bleu cheese dressing. I figured I was relapsing (or still adjusting- it's only been a few months since I was diagnosed) with D again anyway- so why not?
Well, now I know WHY NOT!
Tuesday and Wednesday were almost unbearable with pain. Spurts of intense, stabbing pain in my lower abdomen. As yesterday progressed, I thought I was doing better. I even got up today and had almost an "empty (not hungry)" feeling in my gut. Yay!
Or not. After a couple hours of work, I had a handful of GF pretzels- and it's back again.

So - obviously- I won't slip like that again. But what if I don't know about something and ingest it? What if I am out- or even home- and there's cross-contamination from something. I talked to the hubby about the Enterolab testing, to make life a little easier, and he said I should get it. But what about these times with severe, intermittent, sharp pain? What do you do? What do you take?



Thanks...

[tex]

What do you take?

I just toughed it out, and tried harder to avoid taking chances. Acetaminophen is safe to use, as long as you avoid alcohol while using it. Narcotic-based painkillers can be used, but be very wary about taking them regularly because of the risk of developing a dependency, and the risk of developing an impaction problem.

Tex

[Lesley]

I'm with Tex. I didn't find anything that relieved the shooting pains, and I get those quite often. I just tough it out. Usually, when I manage to fart a lot, or have a BM it's relieved.
Sorry we have no other advice. Maybe someone else has?

[Deanna in CO]

If you are fortunate and some or all of the pain is gas-related (which often includes bloating), you can relieve that by taking Gas-X, which as I understand it is inert (meaning it passes through your system without doing anything except taking care of the gas). I don't take any of the fancy kinds - just the plain, generic stuff.

I recommend taking it as soon as you realize you are having significant pains. As far as I understand it, if that's not the issue, it won't help, but it won't hurt you either.

Other than that, I don't know of anything that helps.

Deanna