stomach cramps and diarrhea at night Posted: 01-02-08 17:30pm
Hey everyone, I am new to the board. I
thought I'd come here to see if anyone
might can help cause I don't know what is
going on with my grandmother and not even
her dr knows. At around the beginning of
December, my grandma began to have cramps
at night at around 12am and she would have
to run to the bathroom, it was not upset
stomach but just a really loose bowle
movement, she felt like she wasnt finished
but couldn't do anything. Every night it
would do this and she didn't know why, she
went to her dr and she had an x-ray and
her dr said she had symptons of
divaticulitis but that wasn't it. She gave
grandma medicine but that didn't help. So,
she couldn't take the cramps anymore and
cause of her going to the bathroom so
much, she became extremely dehydrated and
went to the hospital. She was there for
about 4 or 5 days, she had all kinds of
tests, colonoscopy, cat scans, x-rays and
drs found nothing wrong with her, no
tumors...no blockages, but they did find
out that she had scar tissue that blocked
some of the colonoscopy which was
divaticulotis but said that wasn't causing
the cramping and bowel movements. They
couldn't do a full colonscopy cause of
scar tissue so next day finished the
proecedure by doing a barum enema and even
the results from that didn't pin point the
problem...the dr said he THOUGHT that it
might be blood vessel not flowing properly
and he put her on some meds and put her on
asprin a day and sent her home. She felt
fine last week but the cramps started back
night before last and today she's gone to
the bathroom 7 times and Friday she's
going to a specialist and see if she can
get a second opinion. I really hope that
he can find the problem so she can get the
proper treatment. If there is anyone here
that may have experienced this or knows
someone, please let me know. The family is
just confused about this, we don't
understand.
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mominashoe
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Posted: 03-27-08 14:51pm
She is probably allergic to something in
her diet...some allergic reactions only
happen when people get older. You can try
eliminating foods one by one to find out
what it is. Some older people can't handle
whole grains, so you could start with
something like that.
