Need Some Info On Connection Between Bowels and Pancreas

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Hi to all..I have to be brief as I have had an absolutely AWFUL day

today and last night. Sorry for the " indelicate " question I have for

you all but I need advice from the experts...and have nowhere else

to turn other than my new GI doc that I've only seen once!! BTW, I

did put a call into his office but they haven't returned my call

yet. Anyway, to the question can someone please tell me why I get

the absolute worst, painful, nauseated...the whole gamut of symptoms

days when there is bowel action going on? I'm already taking Miralax

in an effort to help but as it's helping things stay " soft " it IS

NOT helping with the increase in pain and nausea that I get

EVERYTIME I need to go well um, number 2. I just get so sick - I

have to lie down on the bathroom floor, drenched in sweat feeling

like I'm going to start spewing out of both ends and with THE MOST

AWFUL rectal (and sorry guys!! now vaginal) pressure I have ever

felt except when the baby's head is crowning during childbirth!! I

finally had to give myself an enema just to get myself cleaned out

so that the awful pressure would stop. Which it did but now has

caused my panc to go into spasms. What is the deal with this? I'm

taking my enzymes faithfully, not eating foods that I know will hurt

me, etc., etc. But about every 2-3 days now when I need to go or

feel like my bowels are getting full...I just get SO sick!! I was so

sick this morning and most of the day today that I couldn't even get

my 8 yr old son off to meet the school bus...I could not even get up

off of the couch (where I ended up after trying desperately to get

out of bed so that I COULD take him to the bus stop) w/my heating

pad clutched to my stomach. Poor little guy, I had to ask him to

read the labels on the pain meds on the counter (where there are

also meds of my husbands) so that he could bring me my bottles of

Percocet and Compazine. I was doubled over in pain, by this time,

sobbing....so he never went to school today because of this!! Any

advice out there or does anyone else get this? Thanks...

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I'm wondering if this might be a separate issue to the Pancreas

altogether, because I haven't been having pancreas problems for

ages, yet I get episodes where I am feeling so sick that it actually

does relieve itself when I have a bowel movement. Also when this

happens, it hurts like crazy for me. Now keep in mind that I had

most of my large colon removed, and only have 8 inches of it, so my

symptoms might be for completely different reasons, but it has never

been this way before, only this past year. It isn't all the time,

but occasionally every now and then. My stools aren't solid (due to

my colon surgery) so it's not constipation pain, but it can rush out

and feel like someone's just punched me in the lower abdomen. It

does make me utter a cry every now and then.

Or perhaps my pancreas isn't as fine as I thought and this might

just be a symptom of it..I don't know. I did have surgery in January

and lost a bit of muscle, but haven't had any pain from that in a

long time. Besides, if it were from that I would think it would hurt

all the time. Sorry I couldn't be of any more help to you.

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Hi! I am so sorry you are feeling so awful! ((((BIG HUG))))

Sometimes I feel the way you have been feeling, never really got an

explanation for it from a Doctor. I have come to the conclusion that

my pancreas gets angry and when it really flares, it hurts so bad, I

vomit until I swear there is nothing left. But the days following an

attack (especially ones I manage to ride out at home on my own

bathroom floor) My digestive system hurts so bad, and I have the same

problem you described. This is what I think is going on with me

anyway, I think it is the bile going through. I don't want to get

gross, but at the other end, I swear I pass straight bile, and it

makes me so sick when it works it way through my system. Bile is

nasty stuff at either end. Sorry I know that is gross. My pancreas

flares and makes my liver dump bile by what seems like a truck load

into the digestive system, what doesn't come up, must go through. I

may be totally missing the mark...just trying to figure out things

myself. I hope you start feeling better really soon. I too have

tried to get my sons off to school, only to be so sick I can't get

off the bathroom floor. My heart goes out to you. Take care.

Hugs,

Suzi B.

Colorado