Can Lower And Upper Abdominal Pain Result From Undergoing Colonoscopy?

Hi. Thanks for your query. The colonoscopy can give rise to immediate complications of perforation, peritonitis and septicemia. Colonoscopy can not give rise to the long term effect after 4 weeks as you have. It is possible that the preparation for colonoscopy, laxative misuse might have disturbed the intestinal flora causing all the rumbling and pain in the abdomen.. As you have not mentioned , I take the colonoscopy report is normal as is CT scan report. Take a course of an antibiotic and metronidazole. Add pre and probiotics to the prescription. Avoid all the foods and beverages which you must have noticed by this time to increase your abdominal problems. A treatment on the basis of suspected IBS- Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be continued as follows as your reports are normal::: Treatment: STRESS = stress is the most important cause of IBS. Please remember and you must have observed that when you do not have stress your problem with IBS is reduced Change of lifestyle. I think may be you are not coping with something. Vacation outside of your area, mobiles phones to be off. You must have noticed already that these changes help a lot. Try to avoid anything which you are / have to do against your will and wish. Getr into the hobbies which make you forget the world around you. Life comes only once, boss. If the change of routine helps, the necessity of medicines is drastically reduced to almost nil. Medicines :: You need to have a prescription of a Doctor, please discuss this with a Gastroenterologist to get a prescription. I would like to know which medicines have you taken in the past and in which dosage Vit A and Vit D in therapeutic doses, Multiviatamins , probiotics, anxiolytics help a lot. Remember the simple dictum in IBS : you have to undergo necessary investigations before you are labelled as a patient of IBS. Secondly IBS is easily treatable, controllable and within the ambit of your psychological set-up. The moment the instigating or precipitating factors come into play the problem may re-start.