I am going through the same thing...I have this little bubble under my Belly Button...and it's uncomfortable. And there are times it even hurts.
While going through the worst of the w/d I lived in the B/R so maybe everything is settling down.
Hopefully someone here will have an answer. I thought it was just me.
Happy New Year
Gip
Good morning, happy new year. Day 4 for me. Tired, sluggish, but slightly better.
I haven't read about "distension" as a w/d symptom but GI problems and "stomach cramps" are definitely part of the package. Opiates hit central nervous system (the high) and peripheral nervous system (pain reduction, respritory, heart, etc. AND GI tract). When on opiates there is the whole slowing down of the GI tract with constipation. Then, without anything to slow down peristalisis (smooth muscle movement of the bowels) they all WAKE UP and hence the runs. I've had that during w/d...stomach cramps, runs, totally dehydrated, couldn't keep anything in...it would go right through me. I remember one time looking at myself in the mirror during a past w/d and seeing a bloated gut and saying "do you see what you are doing to yourself?" I've even had gagging, wrteching happen-usually around day 2 or 3 as my upper GI is coming online. Pepto-Bismol and Immodium have been slightly helpful for me.
Ultram reportedly only hits peripheral nervous system so it claims to reduce pain "without the high." I don't know about this...just passing on what I've heard.
I don't know if this is helpful but I'm posting for what it is worth. Simply coming to this forum and seeing others struggle and chip away towards clarity hour by hour and day by day has been helpful for me. For those who haven't gone through addiction or w/d, they have no idea what it is like so hearing about others who are going through what I am experiencing is helpful.
W/d is like blood poisoning...it is with me, in me, all through me, persistent, all encompassing, wherever I go or whatever I do it is there surrounding my thoughts, feelings and physiology. There is no way around it...I didn't WANT it, but it is a result of my abuse of Norco.
Everyone keep up the good work. The cellophane wrapping us in the pain of w/d DOES slowly unwrap with time.