I’m back with a painful lower belly. I have a breadmaker which makes great bread but I’d become very suspicious that the [b]bread[/b] might be part of my belly problems. Certainly it makes me fatter at the very least but the FODMAP diet warns against wheat. I’m also suspicious about the yeast. Anyway I stopped making bread for most of the summer and had no problems and did feel generally somewhat better. Not sure if it is the wheat or the yeast. I suspect both but am becoming more and more suspicious of yeast.
Now the colder weather is here I have now made 2 loaves of bread. Yes delicious. But my belly problems have kicked straight back in. I’m not saying it is the bread for certain but I had bread and baked beans for dinner last night and for the second half of the night my lower belly has been miserably painful.
[b]Treatment regime[/b]: I’ve sat down and read right through every post on this thread to remind myself of what it says. I’m going to have nothing but boiled water this morning. I’ll go to the shop and buy some zuccinis mushrooms spinach tuna chicken oatmeal bananas. Having [b]kefir yoghurt and sauerkraut[/b] in the fridge would be good.
The other thing I’ve been wondering about is [b]exercise[/b] that works the lower belly hard. I did some trampolining yesterday morning. I’m growing in thinking it can upset my lower belly.
Have had a lot of [b]sleep[/b] in last 24 hours.
I’ve also just gone and had a quarter of a glass of [b]silver colloid[/b] as what I’ve read definitely argues for lowering the total bacteria count in the gut.I’ll have another tonight and repeat tomorrow. Don’t want to overdo it.
I’ve always been keen on lots of [b]yoghurt[/b] for “good” bacteria but I’m more careful about this now. I was making my own yoghurt and it is delicious. But I stopped at the same time I stopped the bread-making. Now I’m thinking a lower total bacteria count with the “good” ones predominant but not in plague numbers.
The other thing I wonder about is the diagnosis. This comes back. I don’t have a sense of the “periodicity” or whether it is random. I’ve read stuff on [b]ovarian cancer[/b] which makes me nervous. I’d like to see this clearly dismissed as a possibility. I don’t think that has been done. I certainly haven’t been offered a simple pelvic examination by any doctor and I’ve now seen quite a few about this.
I’ve put some information on the Cancer Support Group on keeping a diary of lower belly discomfort as a diagnostic tool for [b]ovarian cancer[/b]. I’m going to download that and start doing it.
I don’t take [b]pain killers[/b] if I can possibly avoid it and my understanding is that pain killers cause problems for our tummies and bellies. Not sure if that is every type of pain killer.
I prefer to use a [b]trigger-point tapping[/b] approach to dealing with pain. Mostly it is a help or makes pain go away completely. I have been pressing and tapping gently on pressure points along my pelvic bone and up the centre-line of my lower belly. There are certainly some painful points there. It helps but isn’t making the pain go away completely.