Hi. What does YOUR ibs pain feel like?

Digestive health
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do you feel it daily?

im trying to see what others go through as their struggles .

thanks

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I've had the ibs tag for over 20 years. For me it's a tight ball in my tummy, so tight I can barely stand. I take antispasmodics daily and if I don't it gets so tight I wretch uncontrollably. I'm now seeing a consultant for ?crohns disease. I say ? as my tests came back raised for inflammation and I'm suffering with terrible joint pain, rashes and blisters in my mouth but my colonoscopy was clear. The theory is its in my small bowel. I have pain most days but can differentiate between the ibs pain and the possible IBD pain

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Hi I think I am one of the lucky ones . I only feel a bit bloated now and again plus I may get constipated maybe once a week ( other 6 days fine ) once in a while I get aches and pains like someone is stabbing my stomach but this is very very rare and it lasts no longer than a few hours .. Usually trapped wind I think . I used to moan about my IBS but after reading some of the stuff that people on here go through on a daily basis , I thanks my lucky stars that I only have the symptoms I do .

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Yep pain most days unfortunately. Have tried loads of meds etc including Buscopan Colpermin Mebeverine etc etc . Tried omitting bread,lactose,coffee etc etc . Some success with Dicycloverine but also use co codamol. I was diagnosed with UC nearly three years ago but have managed to suppress it with Asacol and suppos. Tummy bloats most days and can only describe pain as "period like pain'. Tummy makes lots of noise and have loads of gas! Sometimes wonder if it's partly trapped wind pain? Often gets me down but others seem to suffer even more.

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I have constant pain which is either dull, deep grinding, stabbing or sore to touch.  I mainly get constipated but I have also had loose stools.  The pain moves about all over my stomach, sometimes into my back and joints. It is aggravated by stress.

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I don't get it everyday. Sometimes it's just swapping with constipation and diarrhoea other times its a knot in my stomach that's being twisted and twisted. Immense pain until everything is out of my stomach and bowels. Sometimes doesn't stop and can't keep anything down so end up in a&e for intravenous drugs.

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i have everything everyone has said below..including really bad stomach cramps. knotting feelings... feeling like some's squeezing my stomach. hate the feeling that u need the loo all the time, especially after coffee!!

i cant eat wheat, or drink milk. sad and no cheese for me. sad I feel for IBS sufferers.. :'(

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yours is very similar to what I had for about a year and a half.  I got to the point where the pain was constant in my left upper abdomen and eating anything aggrivated it.  Constipation followed by diahhrea, round and round.  Finally I got aggressive with the doctors and had several tests and had a colon resection in September. They took out a foot and a half of my colon and now I have no constant pain. I still have some other issues that are very mild and now I am able to eat real food instead of soft stuff.  Plus I have more energy. 

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See that's why I never brought into up the ibs label. There's more to it, it's just an investiagtion process I guess sad I plan now on taking a intestinal anti inflammatory supplement now  . My probs started after being put on two antibiotics which made me so I'll I was forced to take anti inflammatorys and pain relievers every few hours for days until the antibiotic course was over and THEN I found out there was no reason to take the antis anyway it was just precautionary. I suspect damage done to gut lining as a result

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I have pain/discomfort every day that can be anywhere in my abdomen, often feels like a badly upset stomach/food poisoning.

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I often wonder if anyone else is going through this. While many say pain is "severe," that doesn't quite capture it.

I have attacks. I dread them. Pain gets gradually worse as stools get more and more loose. Eventually, the pain is so unbearable that I am crying, begging it to stop. trying to somehow escape it. My hands turn red and swell, my heart races, my head gets hot and my ears ring, and I am scared the pain is going to literally kill me. Usually, the stools finally become pure liquid, and then it gradually calms down. At times, I have even thought of suicide while in the throws.

Is anyone else this bad???

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Those sounds very much what I am experiencing

I am so very sorry

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Me too. Same exact.

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I feel the same way I'm in so much pain and I don't know what to do it affects my work to a point I don't wanna leave the hous.

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With mine I start feeling crampy, I try to hold on as long as I can but a lot of times you just can't I have to go into the bathroom and it gets so painful I start to sweat I get so hot when I have to take all my clothes off I called for my husband he's so helpful he brings me a fan and gets a cold rag or my neck and I know once the constipation is gone it will start feeling better but it seems like it takes it forever I get so week it feels like I'm going to pass out and I have to lay down on the bathroom floor and yes there has been times many times over this happens at work and I have to lay on the bathroom floor it there as well it comes and goes when it wants it doesn't matter where I am at or what I am doing it's going to hit me I even had a gastric bypass and I thought that would ease it all up but it didn't. I've tried many things nothing seems to work and I figured I'd just have to live with it.

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I forgot to mention that I did cry I do yell in pain and when it's all done it takes me out for a few hours where I'm just so weak.

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I still have a major problem believing this is IBS. I was "diagnosed" three years ago. Im generally ok I get a lot of heartburn but apart from that im generally quite well. Except when i have what im going through now, i have explained it all in a post of my own, but the D is unbelievable  the cramps are terrible, i lose weight as i literally give up eating whilst in a "flare"  I look pale too. I have no energy and feel like I have flu. This like what im going through now lasts up to three weeks at a time, it depresses me. I mostly wake up with horrible cramps and wind pains through my stomach in the early hours of the morning. I go to the toilet about three or four times, empty my bowels and then im not so bad , until the next time (usually after overnight sleeping) it all starts again. 

Im waiting for another endo and colonoscopy. The Dr thinks it could be Bile Acid Malabsorbtion.. Im trialing some acid reducers to see how that goes. 

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I wake up, or am woken up, by pain and bloating in my stomach, usually accompanied by back pain.  This usually improves through the day, then repeats the next morning.  

Symptoms vary from mild to severe but rarely do I wake up with no pain.  

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I have bile acid malabsorption and I'm nothing like that 

Also when you get diagnosed with bam you get told you have ibs aswell and that you'll probably get chrons. Dr said bam is intestine damage so makes sense to keep being checked for chrons ect

I was told bam doesn't cause cramps ect but does cause yellow D .... I on this medication still have horrible horrible pains and they palmed it off as ibs BUT rarely get D now!!!! So if it's bam and if your D doesn't stop UP YOUR DOSE i take like 3 questran daily at least but email a man called Julian Walters I did he's a bam specialist and gives you lots info :D

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Strange though I have bad heartburn and bad pains and Bam meds haven't done anything for it got told with bam you always have ibs aswell.. be interesting to see what your dr says and if ur meds rid the heartburn ect I'm on the sachets not pills for it smile hope it sorts you out man I had this 5 years before treatment and I'm only 22 I know it sucks!!