I have been dealing with a lot of stomach issues the past month and I am going through perimenopause. Just want to know if anyone has experienced weight loss with IBS? I am hungry (I think) but literally I am afraid to eat because I don't want my stomach to go haywire because then I go into anxiety mode thinking its more then IBS or symptoms of perimenopause. I started at 160ish and just weighed myself this morning Im 151sh. In the past 4 days I have eaten almost nothing. I tried chicken wings last night and got through 2.5 and started to feel the gas. So just wondering if anyone else is experiencing my appetite symptoms and if anyone has lost weight with IBS.
You can lose weight with IBS if you are getting a lot of diarrhoea and therefore not absorbing enough nutrients. Weight loss can also occur if you are not eating as much and are suffering from anxiety.
Go to see someone and explain you're going through the perimenopause and anything you eat is making you feel dreadful they need to alter or at least look at the medication you take for your set of ibs symptoms. It will be to do with the stress too, that will stop you wanting to eat properly. Good luck.