It's hard to say whether it is ever related. Everyday living does not seem to bring it on, but it has happened at 3 Broncos games, months apart. It happened at an Open house where I was on my feet for a long time. But most recently is happened on a National Park trip. The first day of the trip I walked 6 miles with a pretty good grade (Arches) and was fine though exhausted. The next day I'd say I walked less than a mile before the worst pain flare up I've ever had hit me like a ton of bricks. The next day a 2 mile flat hike started what I thought was going to be another bad one, but it faded before it got bad. The NEXT day (this story is almost over, promise) I took it as easy as I could, walking 2 miles, but slowly, on the flat rim of the Grand Canyon. I was in agony again.
The fist attacks were months apart, and mild enough that I just thought my pants were too tight (I'm overweight). I have acid reflux disease and take Prevacid daily, so my next guess was a side effect of that (I stopped long enough to rule that out, I believe). At one time I did believe that a bowel movement relieved the pain (thought I was constipated, which still may be true), but at that point *I* was drawing at straws. I only finally really made the connection with walking on this National Park trip.
THis is a recent development. A year ago I spent a month in Bournemouth UK for work and had to walk everywhere. I had horrible diarrhea (never got used to the food, and living in a hotel is hard anyway) but no pain at all. I think the first pain came after that trip at a football game.
As far as I know I have not had any injuries that would account for this.
One thing is interesting. From December thru February I was doing Bikram's Yoga regularly. This is a fairly strenuous yoga, and it never caused a flare up, but in the middle of that 3-month period I had a flare up at a football game (you have to walk far from your car, plus you stand and sit down often during the course of the game).
Sorry for the long post, but I've just got to figure this out.
Figures that the one soluable fiber product I chose would be the only one that doesn't work for everyone.
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