Severe Cramps - can be gastro related...

[zeezee]

So last pregnancy (a loss unfort) I had severe cramps, 3 days ago I started getting them again and really got super worried - two nights in a row I was woken up doubled over in agony, the pain was across my lower abdo and it was like AF cramps on crack - I thought I was absolutely going to lose this bean. I got an early scan from my RE and everything looked fine (its super early so nothing to see, but no ectopic etc) and the betas were good. One nurse suggested it might be gastro related and told me to take colase and durlex (sp?) - well 24 hours later, I am empty and cramp free!!

I just wanted to share in case some other ladies are going through this - everything I read is severe cramps = bad, and that's right, but sometimes its not bad in the way we would usually think.

Z
xx

 

[dannyboygirl]

/my gas has been bad n tightening my tummy..also hurts my butt

 

[Gemie]

Would gastro mean wind/gas? If so I'm sure thats what been happening to me.. I've been having pain in my ovary area... I went for a scan and everything was fine so I'm sure it was just wind casing the pains. x

 

[maddog37]

I'm pretty sure that's the reason I have most of my "AF cramps on crack" (lol!) cramps too. After a BM, it always feel loads better.

But it's always scary being woken up by them in the middle of the night.

 

[zeezee]

Would gastro mean wind/gas? If so I'm sure thats what been happening to me.. I've been having pain in my ovary area... I went for a scan and everything was fine so I'm sure it was just wind casing the pains. x

Gemie - yep, or blockage or slow movement of body wastes. My nurse friend thinks I have preggo-induced IBS (irritable bowel symdrome) because I was vascilating between blocked and ummm, very unblocked I took some softeners and laxatives that my RE nurses told me were safe and now I have been completely ummm unblocked for 1.5 days, can't go anywhere, need ot be near bathroom - BUT no cramping!! I'll take it - now just to find the happy medium...

 

[vbaby3]

Would gastro mean wind/gas? If so I'm sure thats what been happening to me.. I've been having pain in my ovary area... I went for a scan and everything was fine so I'm sure it was just wind casing the pains. x

Gemie - yep, or blockage or slow movement of body wastes. My nurse friend thinks I have preggo-induced IBS (irritable bowel symdrome) because I was vascilating between blocked and ummm, very unblocked I took some softeners and laxatives that my RE nurses told me were safe and now I have been completely ummm unblocked for 1.5 days, can't go anywhere, need ot be near bathroom - BUT no cramping!! I'll take it - now just to find the happy medium...

I had that too,asked doc about it and she said the pregnancy hormones can cause ibs.Was worried about it coz with my other 2babies constipation was 1 of my 1st symptoms.This time its bad cramping and then diahorrea (sorry tmi)
1 day,and then the nxt it could be cramping but constipation!
All part of the joys of pregnancy!

 

[Gemie]

I've experienced both... at the start it was diarrhoea but just lately it's been constipation. I suffer IBS anyway without being preggo.
These ovary type pains have been worrying me, although I'm pretty sure it's wind b/c to relieve the pain I need to burp or the other (lol)
I was thinking of seeing my doc tomorrow though but I dunno what else t could be

 

[lisaf]

oh thank goodness for you ladies!!! I've been going through this.. where I'm totally blocked and feel the need to go but can't move anything... then later that day I'll suddenly have the opposite issue.
I know that either way it goes, I cramp and feel awfully sick until I take care of the problem (gas too)... not enough to wake me up, but first thing in the morning when I start to wake up, my tummy wakes me up the rest of the way with its discomfort.

My acupuncturist thinks its stress-related, lol, but she thinks everything wrong with me is stress related.

I'm ok with it... just a bit annoying and happy to hear I'm not the only one!!!

I kind of figured the constipation was irritating my bowels and therefore causing both somehow?

 

[dannyboygirl]

my butt hurts n belly tightens when i need to poop now.. n gas is horrid to push out..my poor organs

 

[lisaf]

I know, lol... its just so funny to me now that my bowels have an alarm system to warn me before I feel the need to go!

 

[dannyboygirl]

lol true