distended hard stomach

Evening all,
I'm 5yrs out revision to DS. Yesterday my stomach started to get hard and blow up. It looks like I'm pregnant, its painful & hard. It feels better when I hold it. I can pass gas & some stool. What can I take or try to make this go away?

Thanks

If you're sure it's just gas, perhaps walking. I imagine you might already be pacing. I hope you feel better.

--gina
 

Is it possible that maybe you haven't been pooping as much as usual the last couple days?

 Take note of what you ate yesterday.  It's likely reacting to that.    If you don't think you've pooped enough, then eat something that you know makes you poop and you'll get some good relief.

If this persists, or if you start having some serious pain, nausea, or vomiting---GO TO THE ER. If *could* be a bowel obstruction, IF you start having more symptoms.

 Leslie,
Did you figure out what it was? Hope you're feeling better!

 Sounds to me like gas, I get that all the time when I'm eating what I shouldn't, but at 5 years out if this is the first time you re dealing with it, like suggested above I would go to the ER its probably not simple gas.

I had that happening for quite awhile during a period of a few months when I was back eating sweets. I did look PG and decided from all I read that a bacterial overgrowth might be going on. I hadn't been taking probiotics as they didnt seem to help at first. I was ready to try flagyl and then start probiotics again.

Just prior to doing that I did have a bowel obstruction. It started as gas and I ate a lot of tums and tried to get it to pass laying in different positions & walking, etc etc. It seemed to be getting better (and I did pass gas & a poop) but when I drank water it all came back again full strength in gas pains. Thats' when I figured out I was obstructed. I was getting so weak I felt faint & called 911.

I did have emergency surgery. The surgeon said it was adhesions that twisted up the common channel rather than anything I had done. He removed adhesions & untwisted the common channel taking it all apart & restapling it. I was in the hospital 6 days. I carried my little emergency card showing the diagram of my new gut configuration and luckily he knew about it.

Obstructions are more common after any abdominal surgery and the DS was my second. He said it could even happen again.