I've posted about this a few times and only really found one or two people that could relate.

5-6 weeks ago I woke up with painful trapped gas and since that day I've usually had soft or loose stools daily with lots of gas/bloating/flatulence.

Blood tests all normal, just waiting on a stool test I asked for for inflammatory bowel as this is my main fear.

I'm 26 and never had any bowel problems in my life but this is driving me to despair.

The thing is, about a week ago I was started on citalopram and diazepam. Very quickly the symptoms completely disappeared, but then suddenly came back again and won't go. The only thing that changed was increasing the citalopram dose (which I've now dropped back to 10mg) and getting very stressed that day but that stress was resolved on that day.



I'm finding it harder and harder to believe that this is caused by anxiety and harder to believe that even if it is, I'll ever be rid of it :(