AIBU?
Aibu to ask you to help me figure out why I'm so effing bloated?
DextersMistress · 02/08/2015 18:03
It's been going on for about 9 or 10 months now, every time I eat my stomach goes massive. I'm not exaggerating, I look 7 months pregnant. I saw the GP back in December who said I was constipated but surely that wouldn't still be the case? Blood test for celiac came back negative.
Please help me figure it out, can post a pic if it'll help.
shushpenfold · 02/08/2015 18:06
Keep a food diary, noting when you're eating gluten/wheat, dairy etc. A Nutritional therapist whom I knew said that you often experience symptoms on the meal after the meal containing the thing which sets you off - in my case gluten and although not coeliac, most definitely intolerant. I can cope with it in an evening meal only and if i have days in a row when I go off the rails, it deteriorates fast,moving from bloating to diarrhoea. Good luck.
QueenOfNothing · 02/08/2015 18:08
You can still be sensitive to gluten even if a celiac test came back negative.
I'd certainly eliminate gluten for a few months to see if it helps. (Gluten peptides can stay in your body for around 6 months)
I'd also probably eliminate dairy to see if that was the problem.
Sallystyle · 02/08/2015 18:23
I spend most of my life being bloated.
Sometimes I look 9 months pregnant.
All I know is that it is much better if I eat like a hamster.
It's horrible and I fart all the time but after years and years of it I have not been able to notice a pattern. My mum is the exact same way as me as well.
SaucyJack · 02/08/2015 18:25
The implant is as good an explanation as any. My get up and go turned into a sit down and eat Pringles within a couple of days of having it fitted :-/ I also look about 6 months gone.
Are you eating more since having it fitted, or is it all just bloating from your usual diet?
. Cutting down and bread and pasta helps me. Rice and potatoes don't bloat me, but judging on the strand about people's daily diet I am just eating way too much ????SniffsAndSneezes · 02/08/2015 18:34
Same thing happens to me OP! I'm usually a size 8 but I get so enormous I've been offered seats on the tube 
I tried cutting out gluten but it made no difference (although if PP is correct about the 6 month thing it may not have been for long enough). I've been tested
For coeliac and thyroid function, been told it may be a touch of IBS and taken mebeverine but again no difference. So if you do ever find out what it is let me know!
Dexter, definitely get it followed up. If simple dietary changes aren't helping, investigations are needed. Implants don't suit everyone, but more sinister( sorry to say) possibilities need to be ruled out ASAP.
mrwalkensir · 02/08/2015 18:49
Look up FODMAPS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP . I've only just discovered this. Have had years of pain/bloating especially with fruit, cheap bread (Cranks brown wholemeal much better), milk - waist measurement pretty much doubles in size. Since going low-FODMApP, my whole gut has been happier
mrwalkensir · 02/08/2015 18:59
Good idea londonrach. Re the cramp thing - ate half a small pack of minstrels at work the other day. Despite having taken lactase pills, was in so much pain half an hour later that had to go home. And when I was probably in overload, a pizza session literally made me feel like my innards were scoured out. Symapthies extended to all ...
ghostyslovesheep · 02/08/2015 19:02
see I have IBS and suffer horrible bloating but it was coupled with feeling full, pain and sometimes not being able to sit down
blood tests etc did indicate possible serious issues - in the end it was more adhesions and endo - plus IBS
do follow it up with somebody medically trained to give advice x
QueenOfNothing · 02/08/2015 19:06
This Site says gluten takes at least 3 - 4 months to leave the system.
I'm certainly not suggesting go gluten free for 6 months and do nothing else. But equally going gluten free for 2 weeks isn't really long enough to find out if gluten is the problem.
It probably takes longer than 2 weeks to work out how to go gluten free! You have to read every single label........
My DD used to get a lot of bloating, and I kept trying gluten free, and thinking that wasn't the problem. But it was the gluten. She just had to go properly gluten free for a while (can't remember how long) for the bloating to go. Certainly a food diary wouldn't have shown a link.
DextersMistress · 02/08/2015 19:10
Other symptoms:
My stomach aches as its being stretched so much I think.
I have bad wind sometimes with the bloating.
poss tmi coming up
I also have piles, which used to come and go but have been constant for around a year. I bleed from my bum everyday (bright red) and get a lot of dark brown jelly like mucus.
I told the GP about this in December, she diagnosed irritated piles.
Periods are all over the place, I'm currently on for the 4th time in 6 weeks.
I'm pretty much fucked aren't I 
MadauntofA · 02/08/2015 19:13
Stopping dairy made a huge difference to me - bloating, cramps, wind+++ and terrible headaches but took a few hrs after eating to start. I stopped for 2 wks and felt amazing, tried a glass of milk and had symptoms +++++ so now figured out what dairy I can and can't eat. A food diary made it obvious for me
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