Severe Pain After Every Bowel Movement

Posted by Blzeitlin @blzeitlin, Nov 10, 2012

I can't take this anymore. It has been almost 2 years and the doctors can't find anything. Whenever I have a bowel movement I am crippled for hours, many hours in pain and completely fatigued. CT Scans show nothing. My small bowel ruptured last year and I had major surgery. 6 months later I had surgery for an obstruction in my bowel. I don't believe they are related as I had the pain after bowel movements prior to the first surgery. I also have Diverticulous BUT not in the colon...my diverticulitis attacks have been in the small bowel. Anyway, I told you all of this just to give you all of the information...does anyone have any experience with stomach pain AFTER bowel movements? I really need help. Cleveland clinic Florida says they don't know what it is. Thank you

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@glad483118

Thank you so much for your reply and I am so sorry you are disappointed with the results of your stay. I can't say this surprises me as we spend many years travelling the country trying to find an answer for my son, who at the time was suffering from Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome and nobody knew what that was at the time. Even then the pain with bowel movements was his main trigger. He eventually got treated in Missouri in the USA by the main doctor who specialized in this and he eventually did have some really good periods. But this last colonoscopy really triggered the pain again and this has happened in the past with colonoscopies. He has had several bowel resections for obstructions in the past but yet the doctors always say they see no evidence of Crohns in his intestines when they are inside his abdomen. I find it interesting that several people say they have this exact problem but nobody has any idea why.

I hope you find some answers. How did you get your response to get to my email? Will you get this one that way as well? Maybe we should keep in touch.

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Have they done thorough testing?
MALS is another problem that can cause the vomiting. I have problems when I travel vomiting or feeling nauseous.... the system gets backed up.
If he is constipated I think he will feel the nausea or have the vomiting. I have a feeling if you go to the Mayo they will offer him a bag. Can you find any PT therapy with EMG to make sure everything is coordinating for your child to defecate properly? Anal Manometry test? I hope he can speak to tell you when he is suffering?

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@glad483118

Thank you so much for your reply and I am so sorry you are disappointed with the results of your stay. I can't say this surprises me as we spend many years travelling the country trying to find an answer for my son, who at the time was suffering from Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome and nobody knew what that was at the time. Even then the pain with bowel movements was his main trigger. He eventually got treated in Missouri in the USA by the main doctor who specialized in this and he eventually did have some really good periods. But this last colonoscopy really triggered the pain again and this has happened in the past with colonoscopies. He has had several bowel resections for obstructions in the past but yet the doctors always say they see no evidence of Crohns in his intestines when they are inside his abdomen. I find it interesting that several people say they have this exact problem but nobody has any idea why.

I hope you find some answers. How did you get your response to get to my email? Will you get this one that way as well? Maybe we should keep in touch.

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It came on my email the first message an option to send you a private message. You should have my email now too

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@les2024

Do you have problems with the defecting as well? I have the redundant and tortured colon. I am also having defecation issues?
I am on year 4 of problems after having h pylori and then surgery for adhesions and an appendectomy. Have you been tested for dysergenic defecation? Could it be backing up into your system. I had problems before taking Linzess. However, I am still feeling awful and headed to the Mayo to hopefully get some help. My situation leaves me with 3 hours of sleep is a good night…

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My son also has severe pain after bowel movements. He has a long history with diagnoses of Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, which he definitely had, and Chron's which I always wonder if that ever was the issue or not. The pain has gotten better for some periods and then returned, most recently after a colonoscopy/endoscopy a week ago, where they "stretched" a Shatzi ring in his esophagus. The terrible pain after bowel movements has come back since then. Has anybody with this problem found any answers? This has been going on since he was a very young child. He has had bowel resections (where they always say they don't see any Chrons) and is on multiple meds for Cyclic Vomiting and Chrons. Any help would be most appreciated.

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@les2024

Yes, I have a redundant and torturous colon and my external anal sphincter doesn't relax properly. I am a female that had two vaginal deliveries with a rectocele that I don't think is the main problem
I spent weeks at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester with 22,000 usd in billing for tests at the beginning of 2024. My bp was high from the medication Linzess, I figured this out on my own and discontinued the medication. While I was there they did many cardiac tests and that wasn't what I was there for. I went there hoping to get physical therapy for dysergenic defecation which shows online the main place for this... leading me to go there. I was hugely disappointed with my visit there because I went hoping to get into that specific program to help me. The Drs. there both mentioned they thought I would be in the two week treatment for dysergenic defecation. Their PT person declined to help me so I went home an absolute mess. My husband and I both were shocked that the PT person seemed to have the last call on the decision to help and not the Drs. Where I live there is no PT with EMG and they knew this... they told me to go try that. I do not live in the USA. (I am back at home suffering, my problems are so bad I don't hardly even sleep due to the pressure I start feeling in my body.). Mainly, at the end the Dr mentioned I could have my entire large intestines taken out and be put on a bag. Otherwise, their comments were to do enemas and I haven't been doing those. I am taking magnesium, stool softeners 4 a day, Tryphala and senna too on occasion. This whole visit there was very distressing due to thinking I would have liked to make sure the therapy didn't work first before a drastic option to be put out there.
When I left they continued to schedule appointments that I canceled... for more tests.
Needless to say I was EXTREMELY disappointed and unimpressed with how that experience went.
If I were you I would check out Cleveland Clinic instead...

I am very sorry your son is having problems and I hope you can find the right answer to his problems.

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@les2024 Have you tried Ollie pop it’s a prebiotic? I can drink a can of it for supper and it softens my bowels for the next morning. Have you considered Pelvic therapy I went thru it because of a failed back surgery after she done the internal therapy and realigned my bowels I would do good for a couple days. Having a failed back surgery (a screw loose at L5 I was told to leave it and get a pain stimulator . There’s a nerve there somewhere messing with my bowels because when they put the stimulator in my bowels instantly went back to normal. Then being stupid I bent 4 days later and moved the leads now the bowels are out of wack again and I’m going Tuesday to talk to another Surgeon about fixing my stimulator

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The Mayo Clinic advised me against any Stimulaor put in the back and advised me not to try the Botox. (I have seen a coloproctologist here and she had offered up both of these here in Mexico . She also warned of the problems with both, after reading up, I have held off... doesn’t seem to go well. I have had months of PT in 2023. Pelvic floor therapist here do not have the equipment with the EMG. So, I have tried PT here but what I have available here doesn't work.... this is why I sought out the Mayo Clinic for their specific program for two weeks. I was denied without being told why... that was exhausting to go there. I was hoping they would do more nerve conduction tests but didn't...
I left with them knowing I didn't have this particular PT available to me...
If you find a way to private message me, I was going to ask you some other questions. I am very active and have a large dog so I am afraid the Stimulator would be a problem with me staying put and I have also have RSDS/CRPS from injuries a long time ago, so i worry about the surgery and I never did any pain pumps previously either. Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, I have been awake all night with pressure in my colon...

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@glad483118

My son also has severe pain after bowel movements. He has a long history with diagnoses of Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, which he definitely had, and Chron's which I always wonder if that ever was the issue or not. The pain has gotten better for some periods and then returned, most recently after a colonoscopy/endoscopy a week ago, where they "stretched" a Shatzi ring in his esophagus. The terrible pain after bowel movements has come back since then. Has anybody with this problem found any answers? This has been going on since he was a very young child. He has had bowel resections (where they always say they don't see any Chrons) and is on multiple meds for Cyclic Vomiting and Chrons. Any help would be most appreciated.

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I don't understand what kind of medicine he is on for crohns if it wasn't detected. My grandson has crohns has been hospitalized 3 times for it. He is on a biologic like Remicade infusion. It's very serious. He goes to a clinic that specializes in GI diseases not just a regular gastro. I'm an older woman diagnosed with IBS-D for over forty years. They have never found anything else except one time when I had C-dif. I have had pain after a bowel movement almost always and I take a 20 mg Bentyl pill and it takes away the pain without making me sleepy.

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@glad483118

Thank you so much for your reply and I am so sorry you are disappointed with the results of your stay. I can't say this surprises me as we spend many years travelling the country trying to find an answer for my son, who at the time was suffering from Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome and nobody knew what that was at the time. Even then the pain with bowel movements was his main trigger. He eventually got treated in Missouri in the USA by the main doctor who specialized in this and he eventually did have some really good periods. But this last colonoscopy really triggered the pain again and this has happened in the past with colonoscopies. He has had several bowel resections for obstructions in the past but yet the doctors always say they see no evidence of Crohns in his intestines when they are inside his abdomen. I find it interesting that several people say they have this exact problem but nobody has any idea why.

I hope you find some answers. How did you get your response to get to my email? Will you get this one that way as well? Maybe we should keep in touch.

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This sounds nearly identical to me and I’ve never really met anyone with this experience. I’ve had lifelong bowel discomfort and never had easy bowel movements, but around age 23 they became so painful that they started occasionally triggering cyclic vomiting. I was diagnosed with gastroparesis (idiopathic) and IBS. I also have good times and bad times. Sometimes I live a normal life for a week or two, but then go back to having unexplainable painful bowel movements no matter what comes out of me. It feels like my entire digestive system inflames all the way up to my esophagus, which I can feel throbbing. It’s intensely painful and sometimes takes hours to stop being painful. I’ve found nothing to stop it. A hot bath can sometimes help but only sometimes. Otherwise I’m left gasping for air, and breathing literally hurts.

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