Overdose/ Self-Poisoning Question - stomach pain, is this related?

Shimmer · 06-05-2008, 11:16 PM

Maybe once or twice a day, but today it has been very frequent, my stomach has been having pains, a lot. The best way I can describe it is feeling like paper cuts in there.

I haven't taken any OD material in maybe over two weeks, but would this be related? (if not, what could be going on?)

gorybalamory · 06-05-2008, 11:28 PM

i have no experience with OD and stomach pains as i have never had stomach pains in conjunction with taking an overdose. if your worried go and see a doctor. it could be nothing or it could be that there could be some damage.
let me know how things go x

Animad · 07-05-2008, 07:35 AM

Have you had stomach pains since your OD or have they just been the last day or two? Also, do you take a lot of laxatives or are restricting/ starting to eat more than you used you if you are recovering from Anorexia?

The pains could be gas building up in your intestines. That can cause a lot of pain and can come and go so that could be the reason. If you are constipated that can also cause pain. Have you got any blood in your stools (either bright red or your stools being black/tarry)?

Shimmer · 07-05-2008, 10:58 AM

The pain is very frequent as of the past couple days, before it might have happened once in a day. I have been restricting more since I had a few days of having to eat a lot (stupid constant supervision)

No, I don't think I have any bloody stools...

Animad · 07-05-2008, 10:18 PM

Where is the pain? Like is it near/behind your rib cage or in the middle/lower area of your belly, like around your belly button? Also do you use laxatives regularly/ how regularly?

Shimmer · 07-05-2008, 11:46 PM

Its in the center area above my belly button. (That area where you get abs from crunches, not the lower area everyone is trying to flatten out :p)

No, I don't use laxatives.

Animad · 08-05-2008, 08:26 AM

Could it be that you've strained/pulled your muscles a bit. If you've exercised that area then it may be like that the next day, or have you been drunk, then you can hurt yourself and not know.

Also, around there, especially on your left is your spleen. It feels kind of 'like paper cuts' when the outer layer of that contracts which is hat 'stitch' is that you get after/ during exercise sometimes. As this is due to the muscles around it contracting then an ED could potentially make it worse (Are you anaemic? This could make you have stitch more). It's too low to be your liver and your kidneys tend to give you more of a back pain; these organs tend to be more associated with problems from ODs.

It sounds too low to be your stomach too as most of that actually lies under your rib cage but restricting can cause that to be painful (because its muscles contract against nothing) aswell as when you are starting to eat once more after an ED as you put more food into in causing it to stretch. But that's a possibility if it's been since you've been restricting more.

It could also be a certain part of your small intestine (your duodenum)that lies in that area. It is the first part that food goes into so it could be suffering because you're not eating as much again and so it contracts heavily at some points which will hurt. As you're not eating much too it could mean that too much acid is going in there with no/very little food to lessen it's effects and that is where you're getting the pain from. It could also be that you've just picked up a bit of a bug.

If possible try and eat as normally as you can the next couple of days and see if that helps but I know having an ED isn't that simple. If it doesn't start to improve within the next coupel of days , you show other symptoms or worsens then see a doctor.

Shimmer · 08-05-2008, 08:40 PM

Thanks for the replies, it hasn't been bothering me much the past two days, good sign, I believe.