Blockage

Maybe. Supposedly, peppermint helps quiet bowel and stomach cramping. If it works, it might help relax the gut to get things going. But, if your gut is kinked or fully obstructed, it probably will do nothing.

The key is fluids and little to no solids, especially any fibrous foods. If the pain escalates, then the ER is your only option.

Jan

Also, make sure to move around, get in different positions, even go upside down.  Massage your guts.  I do a combination of those when I get a partial obstruction.  I also drink water until it makes me vomit, then keep drinking more.  Usually something about the vomiting unkinks me eventually if the other stuff doesn't work.  I hope this works itself out STAT.

Please get help if you start to vomit.  This can cause more problems as the gastro-colic reflex starts to get triggered and it also indicates a complete blockage which can become a surgical emergency.  I agree with most of the other statements....clear fluids ONLY, walk walk walk, massage gently, get on your hands and knees and drop your head to the floor so your bottom is higher up than your mouth.  Then massage.  Gas travels up and this can help.

Good luck

@Jaypea posted:

Please get help if you start to vomit.  This can cause more problems as the gastro-colic reflex starts to get triggered and it also indicates a complete blockage which can become a surgical emergency.  I agree with most of the other statements....clear fluids ONLY, walk walk walk, massage gently, get on your hands and knees and drop your head to the floor so your bottom is higher up than your mouth.  Then massage.  Gas travels up and this can help.

Good luck

This is interesting!  I have actually felt the tangle come undone upon vomiting up the water more than once.  I stand with straight legs, bending forward at the hips over the toilet with my upper half inverted for the vomiting.  Something about that position makes it work. Maybe that's weird? I have never had a complete blockage (knock on wood) so far.  There have always been bowel sounds, even though there is a stuck/slow spot.  These have always resolved without any extreme medical intervention. The first time it happened I went to the hospital because I didn't know what was happening, and that time they gave me pain killers, IV, and I just lay there and waited for it to get better.  That was the time it took the longest to resolve (probably the pain killers didn't help with that) and I had the most intense post-blockage soreness. My home methods work much better...so far.  It has never gone on that long-not more than about an hour- at home, but if it did, I'd go to the hospital.

I have not eaten yet but I have gone potty. It's been almost 24 hours so I had the first feeling that it passed so im going to try to eat eggs for breakfast and PRAY all goes ok