ive just recently been diagnosed with ibs ive been going through a stressful time and i am quite young however i was wondering if anyone had the same symptoms as me for months ive had stomach gurgling and lost of wind/trapped wind some slight stomach pain in both upper and lower. also severe constipation and urges to go even when i cant. however one question i would like to ask is if anyone has had their back passage feel uncomfortable like sometimes its feels like you need to go but but you can feel it in your back passage ive been put on fybogel and its help slightly but i dont want to up relying on it has anyone else felt like this and has any tips one thing i should mention is i had a ct scan and the only thing it showed was a lot of poo in the colon so i dont know if im emptying my bowels properly or what
If you have a lot of stools building up in your colon, this means you are not emptying your bowels properly. When my IBS started,I could feel the stools backing up. There is no one size fits all treatment for iBS because everyone is different. Over time, you will find solutions that work for you. What helps me is lots of fruit and prune juice.
yeah i dont feel like im emptying them completely and yeah are there any fruits that are better than others or just any im assuming this like my first flare up its been going on for about 3 months how long do they typically last
I too am hoping someone will come up with a solution for that "something stuck but still can't go" feeling! I know just how uncomfortable that one is, as I often suffer from it for days at a time. You really have my sympathy.
I also have the feeling of being completely "full up" though I have up to 20 BOs per day - some small quantities of liquid faeces, some hard and impacted-looking, some large and perfectly normal. And I mean this combination all on the same day, and in random order.
I'm going to push my GP for an X-ray or CT scan. At the moment he won't buy anything except a colonoscopy, which I'm holding out against. For a start, I have a slight rectal prolapse (started 11 years ago but only progressing slowly) and, for the past six months, painful haemorrhoids. As a former nurse, I know that neither of these conditions is going to be helped by a colonoscopy.
I'm also fairly sure no one will see anything on a colonoscopy, as I have a history going back more than 50 years of colonic preparation having no effect on me, leaving my colon loaded. This was first discovered when I was supposed to be having a barium enema back in 1968 (no CT scans or flexible colonoscopies then). The doctor screamed at me for not having taken the preparation, reducing me to tears, though I'd followed all the instructions to the letter. 50 years on, I'm quite used to this behaviour. I now accept the fact that no doctor will ever believe me that the preparation just doesn't work. It's just that at age 75 I don't see why I should be subjected to all the indignity and potential damage (in my case) of yet another colonoscopy which will be pointless anyway.
yeah its not a nice feeling at all and im new to all this so i have no idea whats best and whats not and really i had no idea about the ct scan being best but i also had to push for it the only thing they found was obviously in my colon being full but no idea how to treat i think they think a lot of it is stress
No doctor should have screamed at you and reduced you to tears. I hope you reported him because no one should have to get used to this behaviour.
this is how my IBS is and worst when am about to have my period or ovulate, the constipation is the worst and i do feel the poo in colon too
Oh pippa, I think you must be quite young and idealistic, but thank you for your lovely post anyway.
Back in 1968 this was perfectly normal behaviour for UK doctors - especially when the patient was known to be a nurse. Doctors occasionally even got away with hitting nurses in those days, and there was no come-back if you didn't want to be struck off the national register.
Worse still, I'm afraid this kind of thing is still alive and well today (though not the hitting, I hope!) Here in the continental European country where I now live, only about five years ago a friend was yelled at, and also reduced to tears, when her colon was found to be packed with faeces at colonoscopy. As she's an OCD sufferer, I totally believed her that she'd meticulously followed all the instructions on preparation. Unfortunately, the doctor didn't, and refused to listen to her protests.
I think this is a dangerous attitude on the part of the medical profession - not only on emotional grounds, but because it seems to me that failure to respond to extreme laxatives must in itself be a symptom of disease, which should be taken seriously.
To be honest, I would rather lose my job than accept verbal abuse from a colleague . I reported two nurses, one for causing me permanent neuralgia after a blood test that she was clearly unqualified to do and another for laughing at me. It took me years to pluck the courage to do it, but my doctor listened to me when I complained.
The reason why this behaviour is still going on is because many people do not report these abuses and doctors rely on this to get away with it. Many people fear reprisals from the medical profession if they speak out . Doctors are not gods; they are mortal beings like ourselves who make mistakes like the rest of us. The only difference is that they have more knowledge than we do. This is what gives them power over us. This, however, is an illusion. Any doctor doing this should be sacked with immediate effect and perhaps a sanction like this would concentrate the minds of other bullies.
While I am young, I am realistic rather than idealistic. Remember, everyone, including you and your friend has the power to change things for the better. Do not give any doctor the satisfaction of seeing you cry; that gives them more power. You do not have to put up with abuse. If a doctor yells at you again., tell him that you will not accept bullying in any shape or form and that as a woman you will not tolerate discrimination due to your previous job as a nurse or for any other reason.
Tell him that if he continues to insult you, you will report him for serious professional misconduct, take legal action and go to the newspapers to ensure he is named and shamed and even blacklisted. He will not want his conduct to become known to the public. I assure you, he will be the one coming crying to you to stop. Bullies are all the same. My father, has been very stern indeed with abusive colleagues and has has not let any doctor master him either When faced with these individuals, you and your friend have to be prepared to show your teeth. This is the 21st century and there is no place for medieval practices in the modern world.
yeah its awful honestly dont know how to relive it
yeah your exactly right no doctors should be like that thankfully its seems most now are not like that however there will always be a minority of them out there hopefully that never happens to you again and also well done for reporting them pippa it can take courage to do it but its the right thing to do nobody should be treated like that
It is such a shame that doctors have not got to grips with this yet. Diagnosed at 19 or so, soon to be 76 IBS has plagued me my whole life. Most of the diets I was given made me far worse,, for instance,, no bran, cereals or other gas inducing foods. Once irritated the colon takes up to ten days to settle down. Once I gave up bread , except for an odd slice once or twice a month, my life changed totally and regular bouts of IBS became things of the past. So, 2 investigations by camera,, which I knew nothing about and so did not hurt me at all, 3 trials where I had to send in samples over a period of a couple of weeks, done every two years resulted in confirming that I did not have bowel cancer or polups etc. I take colofac if the familiar uncomfortable feeling of being unable to pass a huge amount of wind and the agony of the pain that comes with it, The colofac takes about 2 minutes to work There is apparantly no simple solution or even diagnosis and my advice is to watch your diet closely, I do try to continue to eat vegetables even if they can set me off but never, ever will I touch brown bread, white bread or any other type of bread save for that made of sweetcorn. It is not gluten in my case , I can eat other products made from flour with no ill effects and so I think it is the yeast, doughnuts have always had a bad effect too.. Good luck and find your own solution while being sensible and having regular checks with your doctors
yeah its a shame not much is know they think mine is because of stress which was due the worrying about my health which obviously didnt help my ibs the thing i struggle the most with is the constipation i cant seem to get it to go and makes me feel so uncomfortable and the thing im stuck with is the foods that help constipation make the gas worse
i too believe yeast do irritate me, i can eat white or brown bread and it doesnt bother but my husband baked some bread two days ago and i barely ate any and i wasnt feeling like myself after i asked him what he put in it and he said yeast, sugar and flour, at this point i want to give up on eating, i find the other day i ate piece of chocolate and my skin start to itch and i was gassy, i had a skin allergy test done and nothing was found so it cant be allergy, unless its the dairy inside it, at this point food isnt my favourite but lately i have been eating junk when my depression sets in. i fear the older i get the more my health is gonna deteriorate.
agree, when am stress or a new medication irritates my IBS, i suffer with depression and anxiety together so that doesnt help the situation, my constipation is out of hand too, i know am not finishing properly because ill go twice in a day and i have to force it
Sam, don't complain about having to go twice in a day because you can't get it all over in one go. It can be up to 20 times for me. This is a fairly new development - last year or so - and I'm frankly at my wits' end.
I find if any blood tests need done, I have them done at the hospital where the staff are competent, well trained and pleasant.
The bread thing doesn't affect me unless I eat it regularly and after a couple of weeks it starts. One specialist told me white bread can stay in the bowel for weeks, it becomes like cotton wool what a revolting thought. I believe diet is the answer, I am rarely constipated but it is at the other end of the problem with diarrhaeo when it can swing both ways.. I eat vegetable but small amounts.. Try cutting out all bread from your diet and give it a month and see if you improve, I did, drastically. I know its hard,, nothing nicer than a fresh crusty slice or roll with raspberry jam.. but, its worth it
yeah exactly the same here i have tablets for my anxiety and the doctor said that probably does not help and glad to hear im not the only one struggling with constipation and the feeling of not finishing and getting it all out food wise im not sure what triggers it i heard that carbs are not good which is hard obviously would gluten free make any difference and has anyone found that any meds like buscopan help?
not complaining, just wish i would empty my bowel because its uncomfortable, its still a relief i can even go cause there is times where i dont go for 2-3 weeks just imagine how uncomfortable that would feel, when i get diarrhea i do go alot in one day so i do understand where ur coming from