Whenever I have a period my stomach gets swollen and I somehow got used to the idea. The problem is that my period had finished 6 days ago, but the stomach is still distended. It looks like a balloon, and it aches from time to time. I haven’t noticed any other symptoms so I don’t know what to think. What other conditions can cause distended stomach ? Thank you for your time!
If I told you how many conditions include distended stomach you wouldn’t believe me. The best thing is to visit a doctor as he/she is the only one who can make the diagnosis. In order to scare you to visit them as soon as possible I will count just some of these conditions. They are: pregnancy, constipation, poor muscle tone, lactose intolerance, food allergies, food intolerances, hernia, irritable bowel syndrome, colonic bacterial fermentation, pancreatic disease, acute pancreatitis, appendicitis, gallbladder disease, peptic ulcer, colon cancer and many, many others.
My doctor says I have distended bowel, what is this?