I don't understand one thing...
#238132 - 01/12/06 07:52 PM
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I've been diagnosed with IBS for a while now, but there is one thing I don't understand, that doesn't seem to be an issue with anybody else:
While most people seem to have an episode after they eat something in particular, I don't seem to have that. After about 1 hour is up, my pain will start to grow in the lower middle pelvis region, until it's gets bad enough where I need to use the restroom during a total course of two hours. The thing is, this happens to me EVERY SINGLE two hours. Now, I am having C and no D (I'm having rabbit pellets), but could C with that type of stool give you a pain that grows every couple of hours, until you release it in the bathroom?
I do have the other symptoms, like lots of stringy, wormy mucus that comes out of me... oh and I always assumed that in the middle lower pelvis region, thats where your small intestines where. (Which is where the pain is). Stranger still, when I had my upper Endoscopy done, the only problem they did find was some aggitation in my small intestine, which I think is kind of wierd because I thought IBS hurts people in the large intestinal track. (Sigh), well I'm kind of confused at the whole thing, so maybe somebody could clarify for me if this does still sound like a logical IBS issue, or if I've blew my mind yet.
Thanks again,
Chris 
(I'm sorry about posting this in the eating boards, but I can't find any other board..)
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Hello,
IBS is not contained to the large intestine, and symptoms can be very different for different people. Irritable Bowel Symdrome is a catch-all phrase that the medical community uses and diagnose people with after all tests are done to rule out other illnesses like Chron's Disease, etc. If they can't classify it as a known disease they call it IBS because they really don't know what is wrong except that something is wrong with the GI tract and people complain about various pains, and cramps in the abdominal region, D, or C, or both, with mucus, etc.
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Okay, thank you Gracie for your information. I'm just worried that because my symptoms seem different from the majority's experience that I could have something worse...
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Btw, this is the right forum for all general IBS queries as well as EFI ones.
Pain that is relieved by a BM is classic textbook IBS. A SFS should help the cramps and rabbit BMs.
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I swear that I can often feel the bm move from my sigmoid just before I poo. It is a strange non-menstrual cramp that "waves" through that area and then I need to go.
Between infertility issues and IBS I have become so in tune with my body sometimes I think the only think I can't feel is the blood coursing through my veins! 
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I just find it bizzare that nobody that has IBS can tell me why I would be getting pain exactly every hour 1/2 to two hours. Everytime I do go as a result of this, I do either have a movement or mucus. But can the digestive system get so messed up that I would go every hour or so like this? Or let me ask it this way: If I were eating IBS aggitation foods during the week, could those particular foods (dairy,meat,etc) really cause someone to go every single two hours with high C?
I would just sleep so much better knowing if this is even normal, but nobody on any boards can tell me... 
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Here's what I think you're saying:
You wake up. You feel okay. After an hour your midsection starts to hurt. After an hour of increasing pain, you have a bowel movement. You feel okay for an hour. Then your midsection starts to hurt again. After an hour of increasing pain, you have a bowel movement. You feel okay for an hour. Then your midsection starts to hurt again. And so on.
This happens to you all day, every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, regardless of what you eat or when you eat or anything else you do.
Is this correct? If so, does this continue throughout the night or does it stop once you go to sleep?
If this is not an accurate understanding of what happens to you, could you please clarify?
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Yes, you are right on. I apologize for my lack of detail, but I was typing this at work with not a lot of time. During the night, I usually wake up between my 8 hours of sleep (so only about once) to use the restroom. It's not the feeling of something like (oh I need to pee) either, its the same feeling of fullness and needing to get the movement out and mucus.
I know I've written on the boards a lot about this, but I'm just trying to understand what is happening. As you said, my body starts to need the restroom after over an hour, where i'll usually be able to do something. i am still having C issues, and I wanted to know for certain if that is giving me pain every hour.
I wanted to also mention, when I first knew something was wrong with me, it never got this bad. I was going between normal movements and C, but it had no schedule that I could see, and wasn't as frequent. Then at the end of last year and this year, my body just started doing this after every hour or so. I can't just forget about it either, because it will hurt enough where I have to expel something. If this doesn't help, I will try to be more detailed.
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Linz I also have another question. After reading about controling IBS through eating habits, reading Heather's book on combinations of foods... so if someone wanted a sure fire way to see if the pain they had in the gut was in fact caused by a food reaction, couldn't you technically eat only oatmeal for seven days (a week), and it should go away? I realize you also need the other fiber in small doses to live, and greens, vegetables etc to be healthy, but for one week shouldn't that prove something to someone who has bad C with IBS?
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