What would cause the bowel to loop above the stomacn?

[jann1212]

I went to the doctor after experiencing abdominal, back, and side pain in the upper left quadrant for a couple months.  The pain started as a localized pain in my abdomen but eventually spread to my back and side, where it's worse than in my abdomen.  In my back and side the pain is really more of a pressure; it feels like something is pressing on my back and my side from the inside.  The pain is constant and doesn't seem to get worse (or better) with either eating or when I have bowel movements.  I'm also nauseous most of the time, and though I still have regular bowel movements, I feel as though my bowel hasn't emptied completely and that I have less control (not like I have accidents or go without meaning to, but a strange feeling like I'm disconnected from my bowel).  The doctor ordered an x-ray, where he saw that a portion of my bowel loops up and goes above my stomach.  He could see on the x-ray, too, that I have some gas in my stomach and bowel and some stool throughout my bowel.  He said that the bowel above the stomach isn't normal, but he seemed to treat it as something on the low-key side of abnormal.  He prescribed an antibiotic for a mild urinary tract infection diagnosed through blood work which he thinks is incidental, and he also prescribed a laxative.  He thought maybe my pain comes from constipation or that maybe I have IBS.  He told me to give it 2 weeks, and if I feel better, I don't need to go back for a follow-up visit.  If I don't feel better, I should go back for a CT scan.

I'm not sure if it's related, but my abdominal pain started about 2 1/2 months ago in what seemed to be an acute illness.  I had 2 days worth of severe localized abdominal pain along with vomiting what looked like coffee grounds, but no diarrhea and really no nausea -- just pain that led to vomiting.  After 2 days the pain remained but was more dull, and the flu-like symptoms were gone, but a few days later I started vomiting again, and again it looked like coffee grounds.  I went to a walk-in urgent care facility, where the nurse practitioner I saw informed me that coffee-ground vomit was most likely blood in my stomach, but since I seemed to be feeling generally better she told me to take an over-the-counter course of prilosec and a liquid antacid and to cut dairy, coffee, spicy, and acidy foods from my diet for 2 weeks and then to make an appointment with a doctor if my symptoms didn't improve.  Since I stopped vomiting and the abdominal pain remained but only dully, I didn't get too concerned until the pain and symptoms spread and got progressively worse.

My question is, can constipation or IBS cause your bowel to move above your stomach?  This seems odd to me, and I wonder if I'm not slightly constipated because of the abnormalities in the bowel rather than the other way around.  If it's not constipation, what could make your bowel move?  Can the bowel go back to where it belongs of its own accord?  And if it can't, should I truly not be concerned about it if laxatives relieve my pain?

Thank you very much for your help.

[kathwi]

the lower intestines can be looped. it can be done to you by electronic witchcraft/voodoo. i wind up sick from blood infection because of it. if you don't keep a lot of fiber in your body, you can die. they must go to a doctor get a gastronomy

[crambone]

i think he has lost it,,,i do not see how its even possible for a bowel to loop your stomach!!!
there is mesentary that holds it all together,it does NOT just flat around in your gut.
it sould like you have something elce going on like chrons disease or acure colitis,,,,i wouldnt believe for a moment that the bowel looped over your stomach,and thats your pain!!....no way.
if your pooping black looking coffee ground looking stools,,your bleeding somewhere along the way...period.
pain that is on the left side mostly,radiating into your back,vomiting,and diahrea,,sounds like pancreas,issues to me...possible gullbladder/pancreas issues.

ibs would not cause any of the issues your getting except some diahrea.