IBS (?) for eleven months

[jmphipps0428]

Hey all, 38 year old male. My name is John. In 2013 I had a couple months of constipation and mucus. Begged the gastro to do a colonoscopy and she did to make me feel better. Completely clear. My symptoms vanished.

Fast forward to 2019. Since April of 2018 I've had almost daily symptoms: sometimes weeks of constipation (never gone longer than a day without a bowel movement but they're clearly hard dried stools), sometimes ragged looking stools, sometimes mucus, sore achy lower back and sides, and constant, CONSTANT, daily gurgling and noise in my bowels. Constant. The gurgling is either this sort of low rapid feeling in my upper right abdomen, or a popping noisy gurgling in my lower gut. Like every damn day, off and on all day. I don't remember experiencing that in 2013. I can count on one hand the amount of times I've had a totally normal looking stool since last April. Nothing I've tried helps. Went back to the gastro in July and she was adamant I didn't have bowel cancer. Then I went again in December. Kept saying "you had a colonoscopy in 2013. We drew blood this year and you have no inflammation. This isn't how bowel cancer works. You have IBS and it can last for years, unfortunately". But I think she has to be wrong. This can't be normal. I refuse to believe symptoms could last thing long without something being seriously wrong.

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Let me add: this started literally the day I suffered a rather humiliating public embarrassment, but I'm over it and no longer anxious about it, so this can't be simple anxiety.

[nomorepanic]

Hi

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[KrankerMann]

All of your symptoms are classic IBS. Every one. Polyps take years to grow, and if you had a clear colonoscopy then you don't have bowel cancer. IBS has a mind of its own and if it wants to last for years, it will do so.

[Carys]

It certainly can be IBS to last so long, years and years and recurring over a lifetime and I reckon your specialist will be 100 percent right - but, it doesn't seem from what you have written that they are offering any assistance with finding out triggers and managing it- as there are things that can tried to manage it and help. Finding what affects you in terms of food stuffs and drinks with logging what you eat etc, trying some herbal approaches, drinking enough fluids, and more besides like probiotics. I think your time would be better spent than stressing about a serious bowel condition, in finding out much more about IBS.

[jmphipps0428]

All of your symptoms are classic IBS. Every one. Polyps take years to grow, and if you had a clear colonoscopy then you don't have bowel cancer. IBS has a mind of its own and if it wants to last for years, it will do so.

Even a colonoscopy from five and a half years ago?

[Many321]

We drew blood this year and you have no inflammation. This isn't how bowel cancer works. You have IBS and it can last for years, unfortunately". But I think she has to be wrong. This can't be normal. I refuse to believe symptoms could last thing long without something being seriously wrong.

---------- Post added at 18:05 ---------- Previous post was at 17:38 ----------

Let me add: this started literally the day I suffered a rather humiliating public embarrassment, but I'm over it and no longer anxious about it, so this can't be simple anxiety.

I'm a 33 years old and suffer from IBS.

I've had this syndrome since 2011 and didn't know the symptoms I was having were due to that until after 2015 when I was diagnosed with my anxiety disorder and my GP was trying to trace the onset of my disorder.

From the information I've found online sadly it will last during the entirety of the lifetime of some while others the symptoms fade away after psychological therapy/ and or taking medications for psychiatric conditions, or spontaneity goes away after 50.

[jmphipps0428]

I'm a 33 years old and suffer from IBS.

I've had this syndrome since 2011 and didn't know the symptoms I was having were due to that until after 2015 when I was diagnosed with my anxiety disorder and my GP was trying to trace the onset of my disorder.

From the information I've found online sadly it will last during the entirety of the lifetime of some while others the symptoms fade away after psychological therapy/ and or taking medications for psychiatric conditions, or spontaneity goes away after 50.

Are your symptoms constant also?

[Many321]

Are your symptoms constant also?

I have them daily. Though, they come and go. There not constant and always shift from one area to another.

[jmphipps0428]

So here's a question.

Why does constipation related gas and stool smell so strong/foul? Like......old rotten coffee or something.

[nomorepanic]

Cos it is sat in there so long at a guess