Posting here for traffic as I'm at my wits end.
Hoping there are people who might have experience in this.
2 and a half weeks ago my abdomen absolutely ballooned overnight. It protruded as much as when I was 8 months pregnant, it was rock solid and very painful.
It stayed this way 24/7 whilst I had diarrhoea. It was really difficult working like this and it felt exhausting.
A week ago the pain rapidly accelerated and I went from bad pain to absolute agony. Widespread severe pain across my entire abdomen.
After 24 hours of agony, and my abdomen even more severely distended and hard all over, I went to GP who examined me and sent me to A&E.
A&E did a CT scan and bloods and concluded 'no emergency cause identified', whilst fully acknowledging I had severe distension and hardness (they called it 'boarding') and said go back to GP because CT scan is ok.
From that day on suddenly my bowels stopped working. Having gone from diarrhoea daily to suddenly nothing. Initially I thought my bowels didn't open because the diarrhoea had left nothing else to empty. But GP started me on Laxido: 4 sachets day 1, 6 sachets day 2, 8 sachets day 3 and then 8 daily until bowels open.
I've now been glugging 8 sachets of Laxido daily for 5 days, plus the initial 2 days building up to 8 sachets, and nothing is happening. That's 50 sachets of Laxido in 7 days. Still no bowel movement.
GP added in suppositories 3 days ago - used daily, no effect.
I'm drinking 3 litres of water daily - measuring it out properly to ensure I'm drinking 3 litres and not estimating. Plus a litre a day of Laxido solution on top.
My abdomen is still massively distended and painful. It hurts my abdomen to sit down. I cannot get comfortable.
Since yesterday, I've now developed a thumping headache, and I've noticed my urine output has decreased over the past 2 days despite high levels of fluid intake.
When I eat it gets even more swollen. My appetite is gone. I haven't had breakfast, lunch or a dinner for 9 days now. All I can do is pick at soft food, I can't possibly manage a meal. But every time I pick at small portions of soft food it all gets much worse.
I had some plain ice cream an hour ago which is the first thing I've managed to eat since 4pm yesterday, and my abdomen has blown up in pain and even huger distension again, I'm now laying on the sofa in distress. Earlier today, after not eating gor 24 hours, it felt like the pain was still there but was subsiding a little, so that's why i ate a bowl of ice cream (a very modest portion) and since eating it hurts terribly all over again from below my belly button to underneath my chest and it's hard and enormous.
Anyone who doesn't know me would think I'm heavily pregnant to look at me.
I'm having a GP review tomorrow and she told me when I had a review on Monday that if no better by end of week she will send me back to A&E.
But what more can they do if CT scan already done and showed no emergency?
It is really affecting me now, I don't know what to do.
I've been off work sick since Friday with all this which I'm really worrying about as I hate being off of work.
I'm getting very upset now......
Anyone with any experience in this?
Thanks in advance.