Anybody also experience crippling pain upon drinking a glass of water when waking... And furthermore

[Poppy_the_cat]

I don't know where to start...

These are my observations, does anybody else experience similar and hope to combat it please??

This situation is ridiculous.

It started back in May for the first time.

Sometimes just the sound of the alarm clock triggers this bizarre response.

The alarms sounds, clearly it wakes me... I turn it off... Within seconds I feel a tightening in my abdomen, like a sharp stitch. It starts at just beneath waist height. It's not my stomach.

Clearly I have to take my thyroid meds which requires a class of liquid - water. Drinking the water sets it off like a bomb. The strange faint stitch becomes suddenly with the flick of a switch an ever tightening steel belt around me. The pain can become so intense I can feel as if I am going to pass out. I can hardly breathe for pain and I even get a shooting pain in my left arm pint, surging up from the groin...

I am completely incapacitated. At its worst it can last for up to four hours or more.

I cannot eat, I cannot drink anything.

The severe pain encompasses my entire abdomen. I swell as though it were a sever gluten response, but it is not.

I can even experience 'fever' like temperature spikes.

Pressing down on my tummy, centrally is painful, but the worst pain is around my 'edges'; sometimes the pain curves into my back from my sides. Beneath the edges of lower ribs is very painful and as I said breathing is difficult. I have to take my clothes off and lie as best as I can, because no position is comfortable, with a hot water bottle on my tummy... This state of affairs will last for hours...

I am hypothyroid. I have low adrenals. I am gluten intolerant, dairy, soya and many other things, 17 in total.

Unfortunately, my Kefir has not been brewing well and I have been without for a while.

I am always hovering low on Vitamin D.

My B12 has been low... And I have to take iron too...

I have a theory that the awakening by the alarm can maybe cause me an adrenal spike...which triggers if all??

However, even without the alarm this bizarre situation can manifest itself.

My wonderful Italian gastroenterologist has left to go home due to Brexit... My GP has retired and it not being taken in again under proper contract, do it's hit and miss if I get to see the brilliant man.

The hospital don't have a clue about me, they've misplaced my records. A letter was written to them over two months ago and there's been no response from them.

On top of what ever this is.... I think I may also have spastic colon?

Does any of this strange account seem familiar to anybody here? Please help advise me if you can.

Thank-you,

Poppy the 🐈

[Fruitandnutcase]

Don’t get stomach pains but I often feel really, really sick when I drink water on an empty stomach first in the morning. It’s very weird, eventually it passes off but it’s extremely unpleasant. I haven’t figured out why though.

[Poppy_the_cat in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

It's all an enigma sent to try us as if we needed any further burdens!

Thanks.

Poppy

[humanbean]

I haven't experienced this personally, but there are a few possible reasons for your problem given on this link :

quora.com/Why-does-my-stoma...

Some of the "Related searches" might be helpful too.

[Poppy_the_cat in reply to humanbean]

Thank-you for the link.

However, I have found that even not drinking anything and trying to eat a little water based porridge or a banana will produce the same sharp, constrictive stabbing... But it's not my stomach, it's much lower down??!!

I am at a complete loss and very worn down. And on top of it all I think I may even have spastic colon. All the symptoms seem to fit. This is now my third day of totally agony, not even able to turn in bed...

Thank-you anyway.

Poppy

[MariLiz]

It sounds like a spasm of the stomach, caused by either the movement as you wake, or once the water enters the digestive system.

I have had a spasm of the oesophagus in the past, mine was caused by acid reflux, and triggered awful chest pains. Yours is occurring much lower in your digestive system.

Maybe a muscle relaxant medication would give you some relief?

[Poppy_the_cat in reply to MariLiz]

Thank-you.

Poppy