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Juliamidlands
27-09-06, 09:30
Having one of my hypochondriac moments again, badly need reassurance....

I was recently diagnosed with IBS, have had the symptoms on and off for a few years now but in recent months the symptoms have become more severe. Certain foods set me off, as does stress/anxiety, something that has been aplenty this year :-( Two weeks ago my doctor prescribed Mebeverine for the, erm, IBS symptoms, I take one tablet three times a day 20 minuntes before meals, and the tablets seem to be helping a bit.

I am terrified that it is something more though. I keep googling bowel cancer and stomach cancer. I go through periods of feeling fine, full of energy etc and the next day (like the past couple of days) I can feel totally wiped out, sick, weak, shakey (not in the panic sense though), and SO tired.

What doesn't help is that I'm exhausted at the moment. I've not had a holiday all year as my other half and I have been waiting around for the house we are buying to get sorted, we are almost there thankfully and should be getting a completion date soon, for about three weeks time, fingers crossed. But the problems with the sale have been since last year and we've not booked any holidays due to false promises from the estate agents (for the house my boyfriend was selling, which is now sold thank goodness) so we've been living in the hope that 'we might be moving in a couple of weeks', since the summer of 2005!!!

Though finally it is actually going to happen, just waiting for the routine arrangements/paperwork to get sorted for the house we are buying and then we can arrange a move date. (And then it will involve moving, finding a new job, but thats another story, so I am sure then I will be back here moaning again!!)

Last weekend, I felt great, really awake and ok etc, but since Monday, I've felt sick, shakey, aching, sort of like you feel when you're getting a cold, or flu, but I've not actually got a cold?? If that make sense... the past few mornings I have almost phoned in sick but I had two days off sick in the week before last due to my IBS being awful (this was before I had the tablets) but I love the temping job I'm doing at the moment and I don't want to lose it, so I've dragged myself into work. I'm sitting here at the moment feeling like a zombie, my stomach hurts, I feel sick and I'm half asleep (even though I've been in bed early every night this week due to how I feel). Part of me thinks that maybe I've just got a virus/bug thing at the moment (my mum said her glands in her neck were hurting yesterday, and my mum hardly moans about anything health-wise, unless it is necessary), so maybe that is all thats wrong with me.

But I am so scared it is something else- though from my research on IBS I know it can make you feel very rough.

We have finally booked a holiday though, we are going to Center Parcs for 5 days, week after next, I can't wait but I desperately want to be well for that as we have booked various activities, and I just want my boyfriend and I to be able to enjoy the holiday, I can control the IBS symptoms ok but I hate feeling like I've just explained. It's driving me mad and I just dont know how I can go from feeling great, to feeling totally wiped out the next day.

Sorry for moaning :-( and thanks for reading this far!!

J x[xx(]




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vernon
27-09-06, 10:54
Hi Julie, I know what you are going through; I was the same and am the same at times still. I have IBS the GP wouldn’t diagnose it he sent me to a gastro specialist to do that. Have you had any tests to know you have IBS? I was really bad with my tummy pains, runs then couldn’t go and passing blood. Gp done a blood test and she said my Calcium was to high. Then after a google test I found that Hi calcium in the blood was caused by the spreading of cancer, this scared me so much I returned to my GP on the same day and she said yes high calcium can be caused by bowel cancer, so she referred me to the specialist. Then as you know takes a few months to see the specialist, who ordered a Chest x-ray, Blood tests, barium enema and a sygmoidoscopy, then to return and see him once the tests where all complete. All these tests took best part of 8 months and at last back to see the specialist for results. I was so scared and my tummy was constantly in pain. The specialist said all the tests where clear which was like winning the lottery to me. He said you do have IBS as he could see the cramping of the colon on the sygmoidoscopy pictures. I asked about the bleeding he said piles caused it, bowel habit and has for the high calcium in my blood this was missed by my GP. The sygmoidoscopy isn’t a very nice test but if I was you I would see doctor and see if you could have one? I am so scared of hospitals and tests but for the peace of mind these tests give you it’s really worth it. After all that waiting and worrying about the calcium I was a nervous wreck, my anxiety and agoraphobia was at top level. But after knowing it was all ok, within hours I felt 100% better all round and have not had much tummy problems since. It just goes to show how powerful the mind really is. If you haven’t had any tests I would ask to see a gastrologist and get that peace of mind. Take care. Vernon

vernon
27-09-06, 10:56
Me again I think I remember chatting to you julie? I am in Coventry midlans where are you? tc, Vernon

yorkylover
27-09-06, 11:07
Hi Julia,me to Iv had stomach problems on and of for years.Did a post the other day because of stomach pains.Know exactly what your going through pet,as do alot of othere people here.Iv had the tests done to.Please dont google.I used to look at books years ago made my problem 10 times worse.
Take care ;)

Ellen XX