Venting Not cooking, or eating really, with too much gas! (To paraphrase a thing...)

[Dejected 55]

So... I'm always waiting for shoes to drop, sometimes the most surprising shoes drop without warning.

I woke up sometime in the early morning on Monday with severe stomach cramps. I'm never sure what is going on with these things. Could be so many things. But the cramps just kept lingering. I'd try to visit the bathroom, get some relief (though never from actually using the bathroom) and manage to sleep 15-30 minutes before repeating.

I started thinking maybe it was a stomach flu or perhaps food poisoning because I started getting chills and sweats and feeling like I wanted to vomit. I tried to vomit... but they were the driest of possible dry heaves. Literally nothing came out... but the effort would give minor adrenaline shots that helped me get another 30 minutes of sleep.

I didn't feel like eating, but I kept drinking water... hoping it would help the dry heaves and battle dehydration. Spoiler alert, I still have not used the bathroom proper all day or night so far... but then I haven't really eaten today.

But... I noticed... all my water intake... never came back out with the dry heaves. It was all getting processed and I was peeing clear all day. So... I figured there goes food poisoning and flu... although, I did feel a fever and chills still... but then I landed on gas. Possibly mild constipation somewhere in there that is trapping the gas... explains the sharp pains and how nothing I was doing helped.

I tried eating a little grape jelly to give something to digest and some dry honey nut cheerios for fiber. Thinking that might force digestion to try and push things through. That hasn't worked yet, but no trouble keeping that food down... so even though I haven't felt like proper eating, I probably could keep it down since it seems like it must be just gas... But man... trapped gas is a son of a bitch!

I have no medicine in the house, and no money to buy any... like laxatives or gas-X or anything... so I just have to deal with it. But about an hour and a half ago I tried a hail mary that no one on the Internet was suggesting.

I was feeling feverish and having chills... probably weak from no food and straining and pain all day... I have a bit of a back ache too... so I took a couple of Tylenol for the backache and the fever... but got a surprise bonus. Despite every "expert" telling you painkillers do nothing for gas pain. It does!

Combination of relieving the pain and allowing muscles in my stomach to relax as a result and probably going to slowly help this gas move around over the next few hours I hope and I might get some decent sleep again.

Tylenol goes nothing for the gas, obviously... but the pain is from pressure pushing against nerves... you know, the thing Tylenol helps stop hurting! IF you know you actually have gas, and not something else, a painkiller will surprise you... give you some relief from the pain, help your muscles relax and maybe let you rest and give that gas a chance to move around.

But... all-in-all I have lost a day so far... a whole day... and I know I don't do much, but people on a forum like this... whether you're planning recovery trying to reboot your life OR making final plans... you really don't want to lose a day, ever, and certainly not to gas pain.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I don't want to worry you but having a fever plus abdominal issues can be the sign of something more serious. When I had gallstone problems- although- it doesn't sound like that- we went through a long period of diagnosis. I was notified to contact them sooner if I developed a fever. My Dad had trouble with his appendix and developed chills.

When I was young, I got a chill in the kidneys. That actually caused a lot of pain around my back. Is it more one side than the other? I vaguelly remember it being across my whole back when it was my kidneys.

But then, I'm no expert. If it doesn't improve though, I think you should consider seeing someone. Do you have to pay for healthcare?

It can be sort of exciting when we finally think we may have something that could kill us but, for me- I couldn't cope with how long the pain was going on for and, how long it might take to despatch me. I finally relented when a stone moved into the bile duct and the pain didn't go for a few days.

I hope either that it was just some kind of stomach flu and, passes quickly or, you can get it seen to quickly.

 

[Dejected 55]

I don't want to worry you but having a fever plus abdominal issues can be the sign of something more serious. When I had gallstone problems- although- it doesn't sound like that- we went through a long period of diagnosis. I was notified to contact them sooner if I developed a fever. My Dad had trouble with his appendix and developed chills.

When I was young, I got a chill in the kidneys. That actually caused a lot of pain around my back. Is it more one side than the other? I vaguelly remember it being across my whole back when it was my kidneys.

But then, I'm no expert. If it doesn't improve though, I think you should consider seeing someone. Do you have to pay for healthcare?

It can be sort of exciting when we finally think we may have something that could kill us but, for me- I couldn't cope with how long the pain was going on for and, how long it might take to despatch me. I finally relented when a stone moved into the bile duct and the pain didn't go for a few days.

I hope either that it was just some kind of stomach flu and, passes quickly or, you can get it seen to quickly.

If there's one thing it absolutely isn't... that would be gallstones. I had gallstones in my 20s... had to have the gall bladder removed back then. Pain is really similar to that, though... which is how once I ruled out food poisoning and stomach virus it had to be gas. Some gas is slowly but surely moving around... just having a hard time finding an exit. I ate some more dry cereal for the fiber and am drinking a sugar-free PowerAde for some electrolytes.

Wrong side for Appendix pain, incidentally... and the back pain is very much from all the bending over for dry heaving earlier. I can't fully explain the fever and chills... but I suspect that's a fluke OR some unrelated other thing... because the food I just ate earlier stayed down just fine.

I do admit, though... I sometimes think "what if" I found out I had cancer or maybe had another heart attack or some other thing. Maybe that would be good... maybe it wouldn't. Since I haven't had a job over a year now, no insurance... I couldn't even pay a co-pay now even if I did... so if I do get something bad, I have to hope it does me in quick.

But this too shall pass, like the gas shall pass... It's been a miserable day is all, with all the usual stuff and then an actual physical pain and discomfort for the cherry on top.

 

[Forever Sleep]

If there's one thing it absolutely isn't... that would be gallstones. I had gallstones in my 20s... had to have the gall bladder removed back then. Pain is really similar to that, though... which is how once I ruled out food poisoning and stomach virus it had to be gas. Some gas is slowly but surely moving around... just having a hard time finding an exit. I ate some more dry cereal for the fiber and am drinking a sugar-free PowerAde for some electrolytes.

Wrong side for Appendix pain, incidentally... and the back pain is very much from all the bending over for dry heaving earlier. I can't fully explain the fever and chills... but I suspect that's a fluke OR some unrelated other thing... because the food I just ate earlier stayed down just fine.

I do admit, though... I sometimes think "what if" I found out I had cancer or maybe had another heart attack or some other thing. Maybe that would be good... maybe it wouldn't. Since I haven't had a job over a year now, no insurance... I couldn't even pay a co-pay now even if I did... so if I do get something bad, I have to hope it does me in quick.

But this too shall pass, like the gas shall pass... It's been a miserable day is all, with all the usual stuff and then an actual physical pain and discomfort for the cherry on top.

Yeah true- trapped gas can be extremely painful. I hope it passes for you soon.