Abdominal bloating, nearly 40 :-(

caille

Is this common, ladies, at my age? Any thoughts? Its been going on a year (and I have been to the doctors and nothing showed up in bloods). I have put on a stone as well and its like the weight just snuck up on me. I feel very uncomfortable but I am determined to lose this stone and see how I am then.

Just wondering if anyone else is going through this.

Chemical Byrne

Is it your diet? Like, are you eating healthy enough?
Everyone's metabolism slows very gradually all the while from when we're like 25. That means that if you keep a constant calorie intake and your activity levels stay the same you will gradually lean more so to a calorie surplus which basically equates to putting on some weight.

Where is the weight going? Is it your hips, thighs and shoulders? Or is it around your middle? Do you notice any decrease in the fat around your hips and thighs?

If your answer to the latter 2 questions is yes then it could potentially be related to a sex hormone shift.

pwurple

Jeepers go back to the doctor would ya, or get a more thorough one.

There are all sorts of things that don't show up on a blood test.

I've had my gallbladder removed, didn't have any of that acute pain that people normally get with gallstones, but I was feeling a general achey back sort of thing, and started putting on weight because I was tired from it and not as active. My husband thought I was nuts, said that getting more tired and achey (and chubby!) was part of getting older, but feck that. Blood test showed nothing, ecg nothing, but ultrasound found a bockety gallbladder. I was right as rain after getting rid of it, back to feeling as perky as a teenager again.

I'm not saying you have what I had, but I wouldn't be happy with the GP just doing a blood test and telling me to lump it.

sullivlo

caille wrote: »

Is this common, ladies, at my age? Any thoughts? Its been going on a year (and I have been to the doctors and nothing showed up in bloods). I have put on a stone as well and its like the weight just snuck up on me. I feel very uncomfortable but I am determined to lose this stone and see how I am then.

Just wondering if anyone else is going through this.

Go back to the doctor and request more investigations. It could be anything causing it. I don't want to give medical advice or Internet-diagnose you or scare you or whatever, but bloating can be as a result of many, many things.

One innocuous thing - have you had any major changes to diet recently? Could it be that you have developed a food intolerance? I ask as I recently discovered that I have an intolerance to white wheat - whenever I eat white bread / pasta I bloat like you wouldn't believe. (I can't eat brown bread / pasta due to a problem with my gut, so I don't know if they have the same effect!)

But go back to the doc and ask for more testing - a full blood screen and perhaps looking at other organ groups in terms of potential illnesses that can cause bloating - you'd be surprised how many of them can be implicated!!! Even a very simple hormone imbalance. Ask for a check of your lady bits too!

Ignatius in bloom

caille wrote: »

Is this common, ladies, at my age? Any thoughts? Its been going on a year (and I have been to the doctors and nothing showed up in bloods). I have put on a stone as well and its like the weight just snuck up on me. I feel very uncomfortable but I am determined to lose this stone and see how I am then.

Just wondering if anyone else is going through this.

A good old fashioned detox works wonders for this. I did seven days just juicing as i had similar and also bad acid and it was like gaining a new stomach. I now once a month for two days just have a liquid detox and it works brilliantly for me. Sometimes you have to remove the limescale from the kettle to get clean water again

caille

Ladies, thanks a mill, I am doing brilliant already, after just 10 days on the 5:2 diet. I didn't want to give too much info in my initial post as I didn't want to look like I was looking for medical advice. I should have said that the blood tests were thorough, hormones were looked at, I even had the CA25 for ovarian abnormalities and everything was normal, in fact my hormones were in great nick for my age. I also had bleeding going on from my bowel and the doctor found a pile. My diet had been pretty bad at the time and I was under severe stress (ill family member), through change of diet, I managed to heal up the pile and blood loss stopped. But the bloating had been continuous, hence my post.

I had been looking at the 5:2 diet and started on 1 January (at the time of posting, Id say I was still in a bad way), however, after just four days, I could feel the bloating going and it was gone by Friday just gone. I still have weight to lose but I honestly feel so so so much better :-) During 2015, I was under so much stress that I think I just couldn't my head around to cutting down on the food and eating more vegetables and after Christmas, I was feeling so awful that I couldn't wait for 1 January.

Thanks, ladies, I will be back to my doctor anyway in February for more bloods so I am hopeful that nothing sinister is going on now and obviously, I am going to keep this up, early days I know on this diet but it is miraculous to feel so much better already.

To add, Ingnatious In Bloom, thanks for your post particularly, I only wish I had done a detox during 2015, I know better now and am going to keep up the increased intake of vegetables and fruit.