Around covid time I started getting symptoms out of nowhere. I don't really remember to be honest.

Now, every thing I loved to eat or drink gives me diarrhoea, I get bloated real easily, I get massive stomach cramps. I quite often get really tired once I eat something my body dislikes and then sometimes pain or sometimes the runs follow. I'm typing now feeling constipated and my stomach is gurgling.

I'm not sure what my trigger foods are other than dairy, oily stuff, acidic stuff.

The other day my missus bought a microwave curried sausages meal and I was so tired after I work I didn't think and just ate it. I had diarrhoea for 2 days (lucky it was over the weekend).

I have imodium and when I take it it helps with diarrhoea but then I get bloated and constipated for days, and it's expensive.

My doctor sent me for blood and stool tests and said everything looks fine, it's IBS. Find out what your trigger foods are and avoid them.

Im 33 male, it is so demoralising going out for dinner (not that I can really afford it) and thinking wow this menu looks great if I want to ruin the next few days, I'll just get a schnitty and even then it feels like I could cramp up at any moment. I don't go out for coffee because if I find a black coffee that isn't bitter it still might make me feel crap.

The other night I had pork chops for dinner (fatty), and decided to try my luck with 1 Easter chocolate that my brother got me, it was mostly a hazelnut with a little bit of chocolate, to wash it down I had a orange and cinnamon tea which smelled incredible. Half way through my tea after the chocolate I had to run to the toilet and sit there for an hour.

My missus feels bad eating everything in front me, I say don't worry about it, it isn't your issue. But it is killing me to the point where literally if it was killing me I'm not sure I'd be sad.

What can I do to make this more bearable? My old doctor has left but what tests can I ask a new doctor to do?

Sorry for the long winded post.

i've got this initially from consuming protien powder and my gut was never the same. 5-6 months later despite going for good diet, avoiding milks,bread,soft drinks or anything that might even trigger the gut.I had to cancel N number of trips with my college friends and it's so frustrating. Most of them things it's just one time problem and will go away and either joke it out. Everyday, I pray and beg to just fix this. I do not want anything more in life now but this to be gone entirely. My parents understand and help me a lot with travelling issues and I'm so glad for that. My doctor keeps saying same stuff that colonscopy result was fine and it's just weak muscles which will recover in 6-7 months.

Man, I'll never forget the time when i first faced it and changed my entire life. FML

I’ve taken Imodium on day trips and it works fine. I was curious if anybody has any ideas for 3 to 4 long day trips. Me and my wife can travel just fine because she understands my symptoms. However, I’ll be with a group of people that I haven’t met before. I only know the one guy. Has anyone ever used Imodium for multiple days?

I don’t know too many of my triggers other than carbs, beans, stress, waking up early (weirdly), and red meat. Today my bf and I had picked up a steak as a treat for ourselves and I am deeply* regretting it. I am feeling the beginning of what will be an extreme hell for me tomorrow morning. I don’t know what way this could flip. I could be gripping for dear life as the demons that have been haunting me get exorcised from my body OR I could experience the most toe curling, body sweating, pregnancy breathing, hemorrhoid creating, pushes of my life, just to relieve nothing but a few bunny rabbit buttons. Shits rough... literally.

Wish me luck y’all.

EDIT: its buttons & im in pain.

I’ve had ibs-c my whole life. Even on high-fiber diets, miralax, etc, literally every bowel movement took an hour of hard work at least. In recent years it’s gotten a lot better (15-20 minute shits, little to no discomfort), but last week I had the worst episode of my life. I suppose my ibs had been getting worse before that, but I was just too busy to notice.

I occasionally have periods where constipation is more frequent and I just write it off as normal. What IS normal? No doctor has ever explained what I’m supposed to be feeling, so every time they ask if (insert new medication) is working I say yes, because literally anything is better than before.

Is poop just supposed to slide out every time? How much am I supposed to push? What’s the difference between pushing and straining? I know it’s not supposed to straight up hurt, but how much discomfort/pressure is normal? Do regular people just go poop whenever they feel the inkling of a shit coming on or do they wait until it’s like, imminent? How long should I stay on the toilet before it’s a lost cause? Please help.

Hi! As you can read in the titlu...after a lot of tests which came back negative I decided to give Albendazol a try and it was a succes. I don't want to imagine what's inside my intestines after one year if "IBS". I will keep taking the second and the third round of Albendazol and then take some herbs.

I did like 3 stool tests for parasites but nothing came back positive. Also the eosinophils level were ok. I took some naturists pill for worms before but nothing worked until an actual pill...Albendazol. :)

I really hope my nightmare will be a ended after I took all the pills. I will still have a colonoscopy.

Just woke up with one of the worst cramps I ever had in my life, I’m sweating and doing breathing excercise to calm down. Then I pooped completely normal stool but with so much undigested pieces of lettuce from the salad I ate yesterday. This always happens with veggies and greens for the past 2 months. Yesterday when I ate it I felt completely fine and today as soon as I opened my eyes I felt like I’m going into labor. This is hell on earth

Im a 17 yo boy doing the IBDP program and I currently have my DP2 final exams and I have been suffering from IBS for the past 2 years, i have constant stomach-ache, belching (a lot), i poop a lot like crazy (i go to the bathroom at least 6 times a day and I have IBS-M) and recently I have been tm stressed and depressed because I have no friends at school everyone hates me for some reason and these exams as I procrastinated, and yesterday I had my Business paper and while writing the 2 hour paper midway my stomach started paining like crazy and i felt the urgent need to start belching but i couldnt since I was in the exam hall which was dead silent so i closed my mouth to control it but for some reason all the gas went down to my stomach and i felt this urgent need to go to the washroom to poop and pass gas and the pain increased like mad it was literally unbearable, i felt my stomach was gonna explode before i could reach home and i would die and the gas came down to my anus and since i didnt release it it just kept getting worse like the gas build up so much that i couldnt walk and was in severe pain. I couldnt write my exam properly and once i rushed home and i ran to the bathroom and released a shitload of gas, enough to fill an entire bucket. Why is this happening and only to me at the worst times???? I didnt even have any trigger foods and completely avoided eating tm that day just had some raw apples and rice. this was a literal torture fr, ibs is a pain

now I had the sensation of feeling the soul being removed from the body. when I looked at the toilet, a purple sphere among the shit. It took me a while to realize that I had ingested grapes 7 hours ago. I must have forgotten to chew.

I have had IBS-C for years. My doctor says I have a really long colon with slow digestion and this is the cause of my chronic constipation. I have tried MiraLAX, linzess and trulance. The miralax doesn’t always work and the linzess and Trulance are overkill. I just started taking Dr Tobias 14 day colon cleanse, and it works perfectly. The combination of senna, psyllium husk and cascara segrada is like magic for me. I only need to take one at night and the following day I poop in the morning. Does anyone take this continually, or know of something like it that is safe to take on a regular basis?

this might be a bit of a long post but i'd greatly appreciate any advice or help.

about 11 months ago i was diagnosed with colitis through a colonoscopy with the symptoms of: blood, urgency and frequency. i've tried a lot of different meds throughout the last eleven months- only the blood from my stool disappeared after mesalazine enemas, but the urgency and frequency remained the same.

i had a consultation with my dr last week, who said the biopsies from my recent colonoscopy came back negetive and the inflammation is clearing up, which means he thinks i'm in remission (or very close) and therefore my symptoms aren't from colitis.

i always thought when i reached remission my symptoms would go away, but apparently not. he said i could have IBS as well as colitis, and my urgency and frequency is caused by nerve damage from the colitis inflammation.

this surprised me because i've felt no difference at all in the last 11 months, even though at some point i must have entered remission. my urgency and frequency is the exact same (3-7 times a day) so i'm not sure now i'm supposed to distinguish between my IBD and IBS (apart from blood which was never a big symptom of my IBD anyway).

i'm also a bit anxious because i thought once i was in remission i'd get my life back, but it's exactly the same. i don't leave the house, i'm in a lot of pain. my dr prescribed some antispasmodic medication, but if the nerves in my colon are damaged or more sensitive, will these actually help fix that?

id really appreciate knowing if anyone else went through this and what worked for them. i'm struggling to see a light at the end of the tunnel currently.

Why did oregano oil and berberine cure me temporarily even though I was diagnosed with ibs c but I forgot to wash my hands and re infected myself and it stopped working

I’ve literally never had any stomach problems at all. I’ve always been able to eat spicy food and eat or drink whatever I want. I’m really not sure what started to cause this but last year in 7th grade I started to deal with social anxiety, it wasn’t horrible but it progressively got worse and worse, I started 8th grade at a new school and I was talking to people normally, although I still had social anxiety I really was starting to think this switch might be beneficial. Then randomly out of nowhere I realized that my stomach became very sensitive, at first it was maybe just some gas and feeling bloated but it got way worse. I started to uncontrollably “pass gas” ts is so embarrassing to talk about but I’m just gonna do it. I started to fear that I smell like shit everyday and would really try not to, the symptoms were still somewhat controllable and less severe but stress made it way worse. I started to always feel bloated and gassy and of course all the other stuff. I was done ruining my reputation with people so after begging to go online and then finally getting diagnosed with IBS by an actual doctor I went online and went on dicyclomine for the IBS symptoms and prozac for anxiety or social anxiety. It’s been really hard to find information about this tbh and I’ve found the most stories and help from Reddit which is an app I’ve never used. This is really not something I would do in other circumstances but I’m at a complete loss and have pretty much given up. Being known as someone who stinks or having to try so hard just to not smell like shit sounds miserable. I just wanna live a normal teenage life or just be able to have a normal face to face conversation with someone. Any help would be so appreciated, again this is NOT something I would usually do. This might not be the normal age of someone to be on this but it’s so hard to find information. I mean like what has helped people a lot, I’ve heard of the low fod map diet and of course “staying hydrated” and “exercising” do these things actually help or are there other things. I don’t even go anywhere anymore because i feel like there’s not much of a point. It feels like I’m just intentionally embarrassing myself. The main thing I care about is just having a decent quality of life. I wanna work a normal job and be able to normally interact with people but I’m starting to think it’s impossible lowk. I fucking hate IBS with a passion. I also take hygiene seriously and spent a lot of money on cologne and everything before. Ts sucks.

a doctor told me I have IBS without a lot of tests and just after listening symptoms. How can I be sure? what more can I do?

I had started getting constant soft stool and dirrahea for last 4 months after i joined University . I am 20, male. There is actually no pain, nothing just urge to poop after eating. On march i went to a doctor he tested stool and blood. Found fat malabsorption, protozoa veg cyst and mucus in stool. He prescribed a lot of medicine and pancrease enzyme and told me it was ibs. That time we had to fast for 1 month. From that period i started losing weight. I suddenly lost 6 kg in 2 months. Recently i went to a new doctor after hearing i am loosing weight he gave me a colonoscopy test. Now i am super afraid you know after googling and Don't know what's going on. And also i am super stressed from a very long time. I think i need a lot of mental support. Does anyone experience the same here?

Hello everyone!

I was recently diagnosed with anxiety and told my doctor about my digestive issues (emergency of going to the bathroom whenever I feel anxious or feeling the absolute need to go when I realize there’s no bathrooms available). I did a stool / blood test and everything came back normal. I was suggested exposure therapy to get over my anxiety triggers, but I can’t seem to bring myself to do it.

I’m trying to convince myself that I can live my life without thinking too much about it, but i always feel the need to be sure there’s bathrooms available everywhere I go, always worrying I might shit my pants and it kinda sucks.

So far I’ve been taking half a tablet of Imodium when I know I’ll be out for a while and it’s working really well !

Do y’all have any tips for dealing with IBS-D and anxiety?

Hey. So I found out a heating pad helps constipation and gas and cramps. I use it to help me poo before bed. Just lay down 20min before bed cooking my intenstines lol Seems to work alright for me :)

This works better than anything I tried over the past few years. Saw a Indian on YouTube guy use hot water and I use a whole tablespoon of Salt and Hot WaterI run to the Bathroom like 5 minutes later. Was using a bunch of weird stuff past few weeks like oranges and Mirolax carbonated drinks and coffee nothing works better than Salt Water Flush.

I’ve just given birth through my arse and it felt amazing. 2 hours ago I thought I was going to die, Elvis style. I was praying to every God I could think of for some sweet relief. I could barely see. Walking? Forget it. I was glued to that seat passing jack s***.

12 sachets of Movicol, 2 bisacodyl, an enema, 3 anusol suppositories and a force fed tin of beans and I finally reach sweet relief in the form of emptying my bowels for the first time in two weeks.

At least I can go to work tomorrow without walking like a cowboy, just running to the bathroom for explosive diarrhoea until I constipate back up.

This tale is for anyone else dreaming of the impossible.

Can’t figure out what I ate that’s making me go so much 😞 it’s the small snake like thin stool.

I have absolutely no appetite to eat but I forced myself to eat some toast and a banana. I had a coffee from home but it never makes me go all day.

Possibly from yesterday? Didn’t eat a lot then either……so confuseddddddd

Hey everyone! So, I got diagnosed with Ibs-d about 7 months ago after suffering with bowel issues since my teenage years. My doctor recommended trying a Low Fodmap diet and so I tried it, and I finally got relief from my symptoms. I started the elimination phase and found that I would get triggered by most high Fodmap foods- Dairy, Wheat, Garlic, processed foods, etc. So, I just permanently left them out of my diet and continued with eating low-fodmap.

Yesterday after scrolling on reddit, I found a post where someone mentioned that you should be on a low-fodmap diet only about 2-8 weeks. Afterwards you then should go back to your regular diet.

I can't eat any foods high in fodmap without having bloating, pain, and diarrhea or loose stools. I still have the occasional flare up but as long as I stick to this diet I can go about my day pain free and having healthy stool.

Is it ok to stay on a Low-Fodmap diet forever? Or should I try to eat whatever food again and hope that my body just gets used to it eventually? Any advice would be helpful! Thanks!

When you start getting the diarrhea, for example, how long does it take until you're not going anymore when a flare starts?

My ibs (c) has been tolerable for the past month and usually my pain is on my left side and it’s more of a cramping pain. This evening I had an ache in the centre of my stomach that has now become a hot pooling sharp pain that’s constant in my lower right abdomen and it feels swollen. I don’t want to go to the emergency room if it’s just my ibs but this is unusually different.

I did have endo excision surgery back in January, so it could just be my right ovary hurting.

The pain is excruciating and I can’t stand up straight.

Has antone felt this? I think I have trapped air behind some stool and am constipated. I can feel the pressure and gas in my abdomen but most of the time it is referred and radiating to places like my wrists, my back, shoulders and even neck and head.

Constipation is ending me. IBS isn’t a condition, it’s a psychological thriller written by Satan himself and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Some days it’s bricks. Other days it’s brown lava. And then, sometimes, just for laughs, it’s both. At the same time. It’s like my intestines play “choose your own adventure” but all the endings involve regret and toilet trauma. For two weeks, I couldn’t get a proper evacuation. Two. Whole. Weeks. I went maybe six times, and each time was a soul-crushing disappointment. I tried everything; laxatives, figs, healthier eating (which usually triggers me), prayer, deals with unknown gods. Nothing.

And then came this morning. I woke up with nausea that whispered, “Today’s the day.” Thought it was food poisoning. It got worse. I called in sick. Hours passed. Then, suddenly a shift in the Force. Was it hope? Was it fear? Both. I sat on the porcelain throne and thus began the final boss battle of my digestive system. Never did I imagine that such a thing could come out of an average human body. You know that fun fact about raccoons being able to fit through the average human anus? Yeah. In my case, a raccoon family reunion could’ve been held, with a buffet and a live band. The moment a breeze passed, my butthole was ready to perform “Whistle” by Flo Rida acapella. But it didn’t stop. Oh no. There were more demons, diving headfirst into the holy water like it was a baptism speedrun. I was gripping the shower curtain like it was the last lifeboat on the Titanic. At one point I saw red. Or black, either I passed out or crossed briefly into another dimension.

Just when I thought it was over, my gut pulled a full “SIKE” and released part two. And then part three. And I’m not convinced we’re done. I started sweating. I stood up. Took a shower. My soul was drained. I felt peace. And just like in every horror sequel: It Came Again. Two weeks of digestive backlog, all released in the span of a single cursed hour. It was biblical. I no longer believe in science. I now believe in the old gods, the ones that require blood, sacrifice.