Please tell me if my symptoms do or do not sound like IBS to you? My doc said IBS. But he was pretty useless. I'm going to another doctor soon and hoping she can help me manage my symptoms.
My symptoms all started at a horribly stressful time of my life. I had just had my baby and I was having pelvic organ prolapse symptoms. I can't know if my symptoms are IBS or prolapse.
Low back pain ESPECIALLY when lying down and in the wee hours of the night, and especially when on my side.
Rectal fullness and pressure especially when lying down, and especially when on my side.
Some ab pain and discomfort, though this is not my main symptom. Feels better after a bm.
My low back pain is ALWAYS better after passing stool or gas.
Gas.
Bloating.
Trapped gas (back pain) in my colon and rectum.
Sometimes I have multiple soft, formed bm's a day...and the stools can be small and narrow.
Other times unless I take magnesium I would only have one bm a day...but I would still feel VERY blocked up in my lower back and have pain in my back.
Anxiety about the whole thing. Trying to understand my symptoms and figure it all out.
Depression...I would feel better if I thought this was IBS, but somehow I wonder if it is my internal prolapsing and that scares me very badly. I also just feel trapped by my body. Isolated.
Low Fodmaps diet helps.
Acacia fiber. I've done the whole slow introduction of it. Im up to 4 TB and STILL I have to have magnesium daily to keep from having that "backed up" feeling a lot of times in my lower back.
Some mornings I awake to my back hurting and have to go potty at wee hours (430 AM) in order to relieve myself. That is when I know I'm in for it and will have a bad day.
BAsically I feel constipated but it's NOT normal typical constipation. I do not have hard, packed stools. I do not ever skip a day, even when off magnesium I'll have SOME stool everyday..but I won't feel like I emptied out.
I feel things change a lot and correlate with my hormones, and my stress levels.
I feel confused. I have a hard time drawing conclusions and finding cause and effect because of the constant changing patterns.
The only thing I know if that I can NOT let myself get backed up. I have to keep my bowels moving, with fiber AND magnesium or the pain gets bad and everything gets worse.
Wanted to ADD:
Some days constant urge to defecate. Those are usually the days that I have 3 to 5 stools and some are small stools and very narrow. And I also feel I can't pass gas from my anus on those days and lots of rectal sensations.
The low back pain and rectal stimulation from laying on my side SEEMS to be linked to the fact that lying down on my side brings up gas or puts pressure somewhere that activates my bowel. For some reason these things are the most mentally disturbing to me. I've told this to more than one doctor and they said NOTHING and had nothing to add so of course it only heightens my anxiety.
Edited by newagain (12/26/15 11:36 AM)
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Do my symptoms even sound like IBS?
