brooklyngirl
Yankee gone south
I had a weird thing happen last night and maybe you guys can figure out what exactly happened? Maybe no, but I figured it's worth a shot...
I was feeling a little gassy last night, the kind of inside gassy that I would take gas-x for, but I forgot because it wasn't anything major, may have been the quest bar that I had at about 3:30.
Then at about 6:15 I was rushing to eat dinner early (long story short, I'm on jury duty and PETRIFIED of having to poop in the middle of the damn trial, and I figured eating early would help me be "empty" by the morning) I was doing a bunch of different things in between eating and I had heated up the leftovers too hot so I took a couple bites and I kept getting distracted. I looked at the clock and saw it was 7:40 and said to myself "holy shit, gotta hurry up!" And ate the rest of my food pretty quickly. Now, it wasn't an enormous amount of food, it was about 6oz of shredded chicken thighs in green curry sauce with some broccoli, something that eaten over an hour would be zero problem for me, maybe there was about half the portion left when I wolfed it.
Then I stood up to go do some other things and got horrible pains in my abdomen. To the point where I felt like I couldn't stand up straight and I hobbled over to the couch and reclined it. Over the next 15 minutes or so, it got worse and worse, to the point where I was whimpering and told my husband he needed to get ready to take me to the hospital. I had him googling what a bowel obstruction feels like because I couldn't focus enough to do it myself. The entire top half of my abdomen felt bloated, sensitive to touch and hurt more each time I took a breath. It felt like very intense, sharp gas pains. I had the sensation that I had to toot a couple of times, but bearing down to push it out hurt wayyyy too much. Plus, I've had bad, doubled-over gas pains before, this was about 100 times more intense. Hubby was gonna post on here for me (because I didn't wanna go to the hospital just for them to tell me it was gas) and I was going to lay in bed and as soon as I stood up I felt better. I walked around for a few minutes and was basically fine.
So what the hell was that about??? Was it possibly gas? Could eating too fast have done it? I've eaten too fast before and got uncomfortable along with sneezing fits, nothing like this. Or do I have the dreaded partial bowel obstruction and I have to wait for it to happen again then hope I make it to the hospital in time for them to see it on a CT scan?
Any advice would be appreciated, I was about to ask this last night and fell asleep with the iPad in my hands. Oh and sorry this was so long, y'all should know by now that I can be long winded
I was feeling a little gassy last night, the kind of inside gassy that I would take gas-x for, but I forgot because it wasn't anything major, may have been the quest bar that I had at about 3:30.
Then at about 6:15 I was rushing to eat dinner early (long story short, I'm on jury duty and PETRIFIED of having to poop in the middle of the damn trial, and I figured eating early would help me be "empty" by the morning) I was doing a bunch of different things in between eating and I had heated up the leftovers too hot so I took a couple bites and I kept getting distracted. I looked at the clock and saw it was 7:40 and said to myself "holy shit, gotta hurry up!" And ate the rest of my food pretty quickly. Now, it wasn't an enormous amount of food, it was about 6oz of shredded chicken thighs in green curry sauce with some broccoli, something that eaten over an hour would be zero problem for me, maybe there was about half the portion left when I wolfed it.
Then I stood up to go do some other things and got horrible pains in my abdomen. To the point where I felt like I couldn't stand up straight and I hobbled over to the couch and reclined it. Over the next 15 minutes or so, it got worse and worse, to the point where I was whimpering and told my husband he needed to get ready to take me to the hospital. I had him googling what a bowel obstruction feels like because I couldn't focus enough to do it myself. The entire top half of my abdomen felt bloated, sensitive to touch and hurt more each time I took a breath. It felt like very intense, sharp gas pains. I had the sensation that I had to toot a couple of times, but bearing down to push it out hurt wayyyy too much. Plus, I've had bad, doubled-over gas pains before, this was about 100 times more intense. Hubby was gonna post on here for me (because I didn't wanna go to the hospital just for them to tell me it was gas) and I was going to lay in bed and as soon as I stood up I felt better. I walked around for a few minutes and was basically fine.
So what the hell was that about??? Was it possibly gas? Could eating too fast have done it? I've eaten too fast before and got uncomfortable along with sneezing fits, nothing like this. Or do I have the dreaded partial bowel obstruction and I have to wait for it to happen again then hope I make it to the hospital in time for them to see it on a CT scan?
Any advice would be appreciated, I was about to ask this last night and fell asleep with the iPad in my hands. Oh and sorry this was so long, y'all should know by now that I can be long winded
