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Excessive air in digestive tract

Posted by vaporlocker on August 30, 2007 at 12:24:25:

Occasionally I will wake up at night with severe stomach pain. Usually all I have to do is get up and walk around and the pain will dissapait fairly quickly. Last week I woke at 4:00 am and had extreme lower abdomine pain. I tried the usuall to no avail. Pain continued to intensify and by 10:00 am I was in total agony to the point of rolling on the floor. 0 to 10 scale it was a 13.5. My wife rushed me the emergency room where they loaded me up with morphine did xrays and a cat scan. Everything worked out OK with no drastic intervention except for morphine and a nasal/stomach tube. But I wound up there for two days.

It was a new DR (internist) to me and he downplayed the whole event. Said this small intestinal blockage thing happens sometimes. He didn't seem to connect any dots with the bipap machine and my previous air in the stomach history.

Maybe I'm reaching the wrong conclusion. I think its related and now I wake up at night and if I feel any discomfort at all I shut off my Bipap and go back to sleep without it. Thats not good either.

I'm currently set on 14 and think that maybe I will try to get my sleep DR to lower it a little. Of course lowering it to much and its pretty pointless to even use it.

Anybody else with simular experience or that can shed some light on whats going on here?


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