Digestive question regarding pain and discomfort….Help!?
I’ve been having problems w/abdominal pain for over a year. I’ve had tons of tests done-no doctor can figure out what’s wrong. The main issues are a feeling of fullness, like a rock that’s stuck smack dab in the center of my abdomen, a couple of inches above my belly button. The fullness usually occurs after I eat and often is at its worst several hours after I eat. The feeling of fullness doesn’t go away for HOURS! Sometimes I feel like I don’t even get hungry because I’m still so full from my last meal. Sometimes I have pain, like a gnawing sensation. I also have problems with burping a lot (I never used to!). Sometimes the feeling is directly in between where by ribs meet. But more often it’s right in the middle of my torso, about 2-3 inches above my belly button. Please, if anyone has any idea what this could be, please please give me suggestions! Is this where my pancreas is located? My transverse colon? Pancreatic duct? I have NO idea, but it’s driving me crazy!
Tagged with: abdomen • abdominal pain • belly button • last meal • pancreas • ribs • sensation • torso • transverse colon
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Denisedds (88)
Ok I got out my old nursing school notes and here are some possibilities; HIATAL HERNIA: feels like something is stuck or feelings of fullness, GASTRIC ULCER; pain described as burning or gnawing that comes in waves. Hope that helps you out!
Have you tried vitamins.. that help with digestion. there are some that work. I take Extended Health Digestive Support vitamins and they work good. You can take it before you eat or after. Goodluck!
Have they checked you for an ulcer ? Have they checked your appendix ? But it is also possible that you have developed a food allergy that gives you bloating. Try taking lactaid( but the store brand equivalent) whenever you eat anything dairy. This cleared up the problem for my husband.
If you are a woman over 16, you really want to get checked out for this. My girlfriend had abdominal pain and bowel issues for several months, then a weird bloating of her abdomen. She went to an urgent care center and the Dr said it was kidney stones. After a week of continued pain, she went to our primary care Dr who ordered imaging and blood tests. This was in January 2007. By February she had surgery by an oncologist/gynecologist who found advanced ovarian cancer stage IIIB. She has undergone chemo twice and never was in remission. She has lost weight- from 180 down to 125 now and is not doing well. You do not even want to know the horror of this disease! She has pancreatitis, and slowed digestive processes from the opiods she has to take for pain, and has lost a lot of muscle mass from the damage the cancer has done to her system, not to mention the chronic damage to organs from the chemotherapy. She is in constant pain even with a pain management group trying to kill the pain. If nothing else, get a Dr to look at your situation and let them know you want to rule out cancer. There are blood tests which can help rule out ovarian cancer- CA-125 and some others that will give them good direction. Please don’t think you can only get cancer when you get old. Rule it out. Other signs of ovarian cancer are fullness feeling after eating, bloating, fatigue, constipation, abdominal pain. Good luck.