Thank you for responding.
Yes, I have done the Fodmap diet with great success. I did it for several weeks and then did slow re-introduction of foods. I did very well with re-introducing certain things and then I just laxed up, then holidays happened, some other stressors as well, some sickness..and then whammo it's like I'm at square one again. I don't really want to go back to being so strict, though, becaause even on the diet very strictly I was symptomatic, though better.
My gas and bloating are far better now and I have never returned to how horrible I was this summer...but the back pain and incompletion sensations, as well as trapped stool and gas feelings are just awful at times.
I probably should go back to square one.
So do you think the back pain and rectal fullness sounds normal? Back pain while lying down and especially on my side? Rectal fullness while on my side? Does THAT sound IBS-ish??
My "incomplete" feelings are hard to pin down, I read that article you linked to. I read lots of articles that spun off of that. Thank you!!
The thing is that I don't have diarhrea, but I feel like my rectum gets into quirk-ing, even with drinking water!!! I feel like I should be having diahrea, but when I get on the toilet again (and again) it's these narrow, soft stools that are small and hard to pass but NOT hard themselves. It's like my anus doesn't want to relax. This isn't really talked about a lot in the incompletion materials I read. I read about hard pellets that are hard to pass and watery diahrea that is hard to pass...but mines in the middle of that.
I like what I read of the links you included about trying to quiet those urges through relaxing. I HAVE noticed that when lying in bed when that rectal fullness/quirking/pressure starts (HATE THAT!!!) then if I try to take lots of deep relaxed breaths it will ease at times. Other times I will get a sure-fire bowel urge and have to get up and go potty if I lay down.
With all of this extra info, do you think it still sounds IBS-ish?
I will consider going back to Low Fodmap. And I think I also need to up my use of the peppermint tabs. Those capsules do seem to quiet my rectum.
I'd love to know if my stuff is due to IBS as opposed to prolapse.
I think I've got some serious anxiety about my prolapse and probably need counseling for that.
Also, and I think this sounds crazy, but I'll be honest, I have some people in my life (extended family ) that makes me SO tense, that when I'm forced to be around them, I WILL have terrible backpain, and inability to go to the toilet and have bm's, until I'm away from them again. I sort of feel like what's the point killing myself to eat all the right things and do everything right when I can get so tense in certain social situations that nothing can stop the blocked up constipated feeling, the gas trapped in my back and rectum, and the terrible low back pain. It's so discouraging. And it all seems so odd that it makes me fear my body is just coming to pieces. It hardly seems believable that getting stressed can cause SO MUCH actual physical trouble and pain.
Edited by newagain (12/26/15 02:40 PM)
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