Oh so sorry! These are the worst! Try heat, rolling around and stretching your abdominal in all directions as much as you can, grape juice, coke, massage. Good luck. I hope this passes quickly for you.

It depends on how severe it is. Most do resolve on their own, but you must stay hydrated even for those. Some follks do deep abdominal massage, but that's not for the faint of heart. Are you moving liquids through?

I was moving watery liquid through , but for the past 6 hours nothing at all except for a lot of abdominal pain..Severe abdominal pain..I also feel very nauseous like I want to throw up

I have tried heat, Coke, long hot baths..hopefully something will help...thank you for replying so quick

If the pain is severe and unrelenting you need to go to the ER to rule out strangulated bowel. That is a surgical emergency and not to be ignored.

 

Jan

Oh My God!! How are you? I have personally made the 3AM trip to the ER a few times for the dreaded bowel obstruction. Hope it passes...I rather get cut open than get an NG tube!! OK not really b/c that just leads to more scar tissue/adhesions/blockages...but I have zero tolerance for that tube!!

Crystal

How are you doing? Did it resolve itself or are you at the hospital?

If you are still at home and it has not resolved itself then there are 2 tricks that I use that sometimes help.

Bouncing gently up and down (no jumping rope please) on the balls of your feet or on one of the those baby trampolines if you have one (the rebounder?). 

The other is one of those big pilates balls...I would roll side to side, back and forth and bounce slightly up and down...mine usually take around 24hr to resolve (no idea why) and both those things seem to help somewhat. The pilates ball also seems to relieve some of the back pain that goes along with the blockages.

Hope that it is over...if so, do not forget to hydrate a lot...you have been losing fluids and need to replace them.

Sharon

I have had a jpouch for 32 years. Have had over 50 blockages I stopped by using a hot water bottle. Laying upside down and massage. I still had about 20 ER
Visits.

Ng tube is the worst thing man has invented. I hate it also. I have the ER docs give me Finagin and Morphin. A few shots and 6-8 hours and all is goes through. NG
Tube twice. Sucks bad!!!

I've had one blockage and think I've prevented a couple others by walking, walking, walking. NG tubes suck!!!!!! 

If you can tolerate it, hanging upside down or standing on your head.....as much as possible.....sometimes puts things back in place.  I usually hang over the side of the bed as upside down as I can get.   When nothing I tried worked I went to the ER.  They admitted me and my colorectal surgeon did deep abdominal massage on me daily....four days.....which about killed me it was so painful.  But......I avoided surgery.  My twisted small intestine untwisted four days later.  Meanwhile, morphine was my best friend.

I agree about NG tubes! It was one of the worst experiences of my life. My surgeon has been so understanding about helping me avoid them after the first time I had one. The last time I went to the ER for a blockage they gave me Zofran and morphine, which got me through till it passed. I hope yours has already passed.