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Anybody ever felt like you just got punched in the gut?
Anybody ever felt like you just got punched in the gut?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:07 pm
by Hopeful2015
Sometimes I'll get this weird feeling in my stomach. It's a combination of three feelings:
1. like someone just punched you in the solar plexus,
2. A "pre-hungry" feeling like you haven't eaten in a while, and
3. That feeling you get when you ate too much.
It is the weirdest thing. I've had the "MS Hug" before, and it sort of feels like this is a variation of that. It happens whether I've eaten or not.
Anyone else had this symptom? It makes it difficult to stay standing for very long, like I'm weak as a kitten...even if I know I won't fall over, I have to go find somewhere and sit down or I'm really uncomfortable.
Re: Anybody ever felt like you just got punched in the gut?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:09 pm
by Scott1
Hi,
Yes. I found two things helped; what I ate and a pilates type exercise.
After my last attack, which is detailed elsewhere, I had very troubled stomach muscles. I also had that gnawing feeling when you feel you need to eat, even you aren't really hungry. When the "hunger" hit I would also feel weak.
I tried to break it down to different symptoms needing different treatment. What seems to work for me is to imagine I am diabetic (which I'm not). When the weakness and hunger hit I would drink a small take away size bottle of apple juice. That gave me a hit of sugar and after about 20 mins I would feel better.
The bigger thing to do is change your diet. I have tried different diets and found nothing is completely right for so I just adopted some rules: avoid dairy, gluten and pulses, eat saturated fats (good meat not processed, avocado and coconut cream if you can manage it) not trans fats. I vastly increased my intake of a variety of fruits but preferred the ones where the colour goes right through (berries, mangoes, apricots, peaches etc) rather than ones where the colour is just on the skin (apples, bananas etc) although I would eat them if I wanted them.
I try to make breakfast into a big meal and lunch into a smaller meal. This means I eat a lot of fruit and then I eat 3 boiled eggs. You can work out what best works for you but stay away from dairy and gluten. I tend to graze on fruits (grapes, berries) if I feel hungry in between meals. In the evening I always try to eat meat and after dinner I will have a snack of more berries. It helps that they are in season for me and cheap at the moment. I did try whizzing up mango with coconut cream as a substitute for yoghurt but it was just too much fat and I felt too full. A small amount could help and an avocado is surprisingly filling.
I also found this style of food can't be rushed so meal time gets stretched a bit. I am trying not to be prescriptive or measure things because we are all different.
On exercise I just do Pilates but find stretching the psoas is critical. As I am a long time advocate some exercises are suitable for me but might be hard if you aren't used to it but anything that involves twisting the torso, stretching the hip flexors, lengthening the psoas and mobilizing leg muscles will help.
Try the apple juice trick first and see what happens.
Regards
Re: Anybody ever felt like you just got punched in the gut?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:30 pm
by Hopeful2015
Scott,
Thanks for your detailed response. Good advice nutritionally even without the added stomach muscles prroblem.
What are psoas?
I'm hungry just reading your post. Mmmmmmmmmmboiled eeeeeeegggggssss and avocadoooooooo (Homer Simpson)
Re: Anybody ever felt like you just got punched in the gut?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:51 pm
by Scott1
As the great sage, Homer, once said, "Trying is the first step towards failure". So we better do something!
The psoas is a very important muscle that is hard to stretch and hard to strengthen. Nonetheless, we need to do both. A simple way of thinking about is to try to lift your leg. As much as you want to attribute the action to the leg muscles it wont lift if The psoas does contract so everything you do with your legs can relate back to it. It takes time to stretch this muscle eg - but don't ever underestimate how important it is. It dictates the quality of so much of our movement. There are more complex exercises but I'll let you find them on youtube