Pain a crossed stomach

Bud 18

I'm sorry to hear of your problem.

Apart from the gripping pain are you suffering any other symptoms?

How is your output,

if you have a colostomy is it still formed.

If you have an ileostomy is it like porridge consistency or watery.

If your output is watery is it the same as normal or extra watery

Have you noticed that your output is extra smelly.

Is your bag not a full as it normally would have been.

How is your stomach, does it feel as if you've got an abdominal distension. 

Have you vomited.

Has your stoma increased in size

Have you felt nauseous.

Has your stoma stopped working.

If you can answer yes to most of the above and the condition has been ongoing for a few days, my suggestion this Friday evening is, I afraid, to telephone NHS111 and explain fully all the symptoms and obtain medical advice.

However if you have answered NO to most the above questions you may well have trapped wind in which case you may need to watch what you eat carefully, keeping a food diary to note food input and any symptoms you experience, drinking peppermint tea might help, avoid fizzy drinks and alcohol, maybe try cutting back on the fibre in your diet.

I hope the above is a bit of a help to you and your get rid of the pain soon, please let us know how you get on.

Ian

Bud can I please ask you to note that I am not medically trained and the above should not be taken as medical advice but only suggestions to the actions you could take to alleviate the problem.