Dan21
07-12-12, 13:44
Hello.
I’m fairly sure that I’m suffering with IBS. It takes practically nothing to send me into an anxiety fuelled spiral so when I found out last week that we are experiencing our second child, I should be able to recognise that the abdominal cramping, bloating and achey/occasional spikey discomfort in my gut is almost certainly anxiety/IBS related. But, my health anxiety is going haywire thinking it’s bowel cancer or some other awful reason.
I’ve no ‘red flag’ symptoms at all and I’ve had similar episodes of this kind of digestion problems. So why can’t I get my head around the fact that this will be the same issue? Don’t get me wrong, I’m overjoyed at the idea of another child, however there is some evidence it ‘might’ be twins. Even trying to objectively consider that something like this could trigger an anxiety related tummy problem, there’s just something inside me that won’t let me believe it’s almost certainly something stress triggered and instead a serious condition.
It’s odd really as I’m not exactly in pain, just an ongoing real discomfort that comes and goes. My stomach muscles seems to be really sore too but I think this might be to do with my posture changing due to the IBS-like symptoms. Doesn’t disturb my sleep and no weight loss or any other danger sign. I think I might go to the docs next week and see what they say but I don’t want to be saddled with any meds. Just hope I can shake this off soon.
I’m fairly sure that I’m suffering with IBS. It takes practically nothing to send me into an anxiety fuelled spiral so when I found out last week that we are experiencing our second child, I should be able to recognise that the abdominal cramping, bloating and achey/occasional spikey discomfort in my gut is almost certainly anxiety/IBS related. But, my health anxiety is going haywire thinking it’s bowel cancer or some other awful reason.
I’ve no ‘red flag’ symptoms at all and I’ve had similar episodes of this kind of digestion problems. So why can’t I get my head around the fact that this will be the same issue? Don’t get me wrong, I’m overjoyed at the idea of another child, however there is some evidence it ‘might’ be twins. Even trying to objectively consider that something like this could trigger an anxiety related tummy problem, there’s just something inside me that won’t let me believe it’s almost certainly something stress triggered and instead a serious condition.
It’s odd really as I’m not exactly in pain, just an ongoing real discomfort that comes and goes. My stomach muscles seems to be really sore too but I think this might be to do with my posture changing due to the IBS-like symptoms. Doesn’t disturb my sleep and no weight loss or any other danger sign. I think I might go to the docs next week and see what they say but I don’t want to be saddled with any meds. Just hope I can shake this off soon.