IBS?? Not sure.. Advice needed

[fairyclairy]

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone can help me.. I have always thought I have ibs from being anxious an stressed etc, my symptoms have mainly been trapped and excessive wind, an having discomfort in my tummy if iv eaten a huge meal or a stodgy meal.. However, over the past couple of days my stomach has felt awful and I'm not sure if it's just a bad flare up of ibs or something else? I have had a very stressful week.. It's been my granddads funeral, broke up with my partner after 6 years and work has just been awful.. So I have been very anxious an had a nervous tummy all week but the last few days iv had;
Extreme excessive wind/gas
Tummy has been making very strange noises
My whole stomach feels huge an like it's stuck out 10 feet!
My tummy feels full, heavy and pressurised
Tummy feels heavy
I have sharp pains around my tummy
Lower back ache
Lower abdomen pain from time to time
Burping more than usual
Tenderness an discomfort when I press my yummy
I can feel the gas moving around when I massage my tummy
Tummy feels tense
Can't empty bowel alot
When I do try an empty my bowel, it never feels like iv emptied it all

Does this sound like ibs?? Iv never had it this bad before, it's horrible!
Does anyone know anything I can take to relieve the symptoms?
Any meds/herbal things that I could take long term to stop it happening again

Advice would be much appreciated, thank you x

[honeyp1e]

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone can help me.. I have always thought I have ibs from being anxious an stressed etc, my symptoms have mainly been trapped and excessive wind, an having discomfort in my tummy if iv eaten a huge meal or a stodgy meal.. However, over the past couple of days my stomach has felt awful and I'm not sure if it's just a bad flare up of ibs or something else? I have had a very stressful week.. It's been my granddads funeral, broke up with my partner after 6 years and work has just been awful.. So I have been very anxious an had a nervous tummy all week but the last few days iv had;
Extreme excessive wind/gas
Tummy has been making very strange noises
My whole stomach feels huge an like it's stuck out 10 feet!
My tummy feels full, heavy and pressurised
Tummy feels heavy
I have sharp pains around my tummy
Lower back ache
Lower abdomen pain from time to time
Burping more than usual
Tenderness an discomfort when I press my yummy
I can feel the gas moving around when I massage my tummy
Tummy feels tense
Can't empty bowel alot
When I do try an empty my bowel, it never feels like iv emptied it all

Does this sound like ibs?? Iv never had it this bad before, it's horrible!
Does anyone know anything I can take to relieve the symptoms?
Any meds/herbal things that I could take long term to stop it happening again

Advice would be much appreciated, thank you x

all what you have listed are most of my symptoms of my IBS so i would say it does sound like you have IBS but am no doctor may be you should make an appointment with your doc to rule anything out before confirming it is just ibs thats what i had done all kinds of tests etc and its just IBS but i have peppermint tabs for the bloatedness, also motillium tablets not much you can do for ibs really xx

[fairyclairy]

Thank you for your reply - iv had a motillium tablet but it's not done anything so il keep taking them an see if it works. It's so awful this feeling, it's making me just want to cancel everything an stay in cos I feel horrible. How long do your flare ups last? X

[honeyp1e]

Thank you for your reply - iv had a motillium tablet but it's not done anything so il keep taking them an see if it works. It's so awful this feeling, it's making me just want to cancel everything an stay in cos I feel horrible. How long do your flare ups last? X

can be a few hours to last a few days it never stays the same butu am silly as i always end up eating my trigger foods (chocolate) but i really need to stop cos i end up in so much pain my stomach feels like am pregnant (which am not) or sometimes it gets like a heavy weight feeling in it or the burning is the worse (had this all day) ate porridge this morning was fine then i had two cookies with a cup of tea and had to shoot the loo and had pains ever since

[fairyclairy]

I'm not really sure if I have a trigger food.. Think mine comes on when I'm stressed, which doesn't help when im suffering from anxiety most days.
My stomach has started to settle now though, feel loads better than I did before which is good.
Iv had that pregnant feeling and weighted feeling.. It felt like there was a balloon expanding in my stomach, not nice at all x

[honeyp1e]

I'm not really sure if I have a trigger food.. Think mine comes on when I'm stressed, which doesn't help when im suffering from anxiety most days.
My stomach has started to settle now though, feel loads better than I did before which is good.
Iv had that pregnant feeling and weighted feeling.. It felt like there was a balloon expanding in my stomach, not nice at all x

i just hate the fact am suffering with bad acid all day & night but i no most of the time it kicks off unknown then i will eat something i no that will make it worse so thats my own fault but i just cant help eating sweet things when i dont eat much as it is :( so the things i do eat are doing me for now but my diet does need sorting out so i have decided am no longer gonna buy biscuits how about jelly babies?? would these cause acid ? i need to quit smoking aswell