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DumbledoresGirl · 16/08/2006 15:54

I have just searched my name and health topics for this year and I am embarrassed how many times I have posted on this topic, often with symptoms of my own. But, I can't find any reference to this, so feel justified in asking:

I have a horrible, bloated, sore feeling in my stomach, not for the first time. It doesn't appear to be anything to do with the bowels (not trapped wind/problems going to the loo etc). My stomach is big, it feels very tender on and off, I don't feel hungry, etc. You kow that advert on tv for activia where the woman refuses the offer of something to eat because she feesl so bloated? Well, I feel the way I imagine she does.

What is it? Does anyone else suffer from this? It comes and goes, and doesn't seem to be afecting my health or indicative of anything else so I dond't want to go to the GP. Anyway, I have had countless tests done for all sorts of vague symptoms in the past and they have all been clear. I don't want to appear a complete hypochondriac! At least not to the GP - I am sure you have already formed your opinion!

Anyone?

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Marina · 16/08/2006 15:56

DG, when you say it comes and goes, is it tied in at all with your menstrual cycle do you think?

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LIZS · 16/08/2006 15:58

I 've had this. Then had a really bad tummy bug in holiday last year and have taken probiotic supplements from Boots since and seems much reduced.

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zippitippitoes · 16/08/2006 15:58

try avoiding cheese, bread and eggs

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DumbledoresGirl · 16/08/2006 16:02

Marina - I haven't definitely made that connection but it has occurred to me. I am not due another period for 7 days. Would that fit anything?

Avoid cheese, bread and eggs and take probiotic supplements? i do sometimes wonder if I need more fluid or fruit or something to make me feel less fat and bloated but if I start a regime, the symptoms go away but then they go away also even if I do nothing. So i am not sure if anything is related.

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Marina · 16/08/2006 16:04

I ask because I quite often feel bloated and tender around the time of ovulation DG. That makes it a bit late in the cycle to apply to you, if your cycles are textbook-type.
I hope you get it sorted out

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DumbledoresGirl · 16/08/2006 16:06

Well who knows re my cycle Marina. Last month I was 4 days late and got so paniskced I bought a pg test! I am that certain age where cycles might start to lengthen so I cannot be sure exactly where I am in my cycle - just to add confusion to the matter.

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Marina · 16/08/2006 16:09

Well, that could be it then.
There is even a term for it: Mittelschmerz.
When I get it, it really is quite uncomfortable. And that would tie in with yours disappearing again regards of what remedies you try.

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DumbledoresGirl · 16/08/2006 16:16

Hmmm, maybe not. Thanks for telling me the name - as a student of German is simply mean middle pain! I have googled it, but I am not sure if that is what I am experiencing. It is likened to appendicitis! Gosh that must be awful! My complaint is more bloatedness and tenderness than anything I would liken to the pain of appendicitis.