Pigeon
04-01-17, 15:40
Hi All
I have a history of gastric issues eventually having had had various tests in 2009 when they were ruling out any problems in the upper GI system (I did have a small duodenal ulcer). More recently in 2014 I had a blood test and physical examination (but no scan/endoscopy) in 2014 to rule out bowel cancer as my brother had been recentlydiagnosed. My symptoms subsided after this so no further follow-up was needed and it was left with my GP saying possible IBS. So i don't really know whther IBS is a 'formal' diagnosis as such.
I have been well since then with only minor, short, flare-ups,but in the last 4 or 5 weeks my digestive system has been all over the place. Some of the symptoms (moderate stomach pain - sometimes under left ribs but also elsewhere in lower stomach etc, a pulling feeling, back pain, acid indigestion and burping) I'm used to and they don't worry me too much
However I do start to get a little anxious if anything different happens - hence this post.
This may seem trivial or silly to others but I have started to have the loudest stomach rumbling I have ever heard in my life! I do have a rumbley tummy so wouldn't normally worry, but this is just excessive. It just doesn't seem natural and it's extremley embarrassing - and it's happening constantly - it seems like all day, every day. I had to leave a meeting at work the other day because it went on for over an hour and everyone was looking at me. The odd thing is that the amound of wind passed (sorry :blush:) is nowhere near the ferocity of rumbling would suggest. It just feels like it is all rolling backwards and forwards , getting stuck and never really going anywhere.
I just wondered if anyone else had experienced similar with IBS? Could there be any sisniter casues for all this? Should I go back to GP (I domn't really want to)?
Any help/comments appreciated
I have a history of gastric issues eventually having had had various tests in 2009 when they were ruling out any problems in the upper GI system (I did have a small duodenal ulcer). More recently in 2014 I had a blood test and physical examination (but no scan/endoscopy) in 2014 to rule out bowel cancer as my brother had been recentlydiagnosed. My symptoms subsided after this so no further follow-up was needed and it was left with my GP saying possible IBS. So i don't really know whther IBS is a 'formal' diagnosis as such.
I have been well since then with only minor, short, flare-ups,but in the last 4 or 5 weeks my digestive system has been all over the place. Some of the symptoms (moderate stomach pain - sometimes under left ribs but also elsewhere in lower stomach etc, a pulling feeling, back pain, acid indigestion and burping) I'm used to and they don't worry me too much
However I do start to get a little anxious if anything different happens - hence this post.
This may seem trivial or silly to others but I have started to have the loudest stomach rumbling I have ever heard in my life! I do have a rumbley tummy so wouldn't normally worry, but this is just excessive. It just doesn't seem natural and it's extremley embarrassing - and it's happening constantly - it seems like all day, every day. I had to leave a meeting at work the other day because it went on for over an hour and everyone was looking at me. The odd thing is that the amound of wind passed (sorry :blush:) is nowhere near the ferocity of rumbling would suggest. It just feels like it is all rolling backwards and forwards , getting stuck and never really going anywhere.
I just wondered if anyone else had experienced similar with IBS? Could there be any sisniter casues for all this? Should I go back to GP (I domn't really want to)?
Any help/comments appreciated