What do you consider your WORST symptom
#259243 - 04/20/06 11:56 AM
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taroh73
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I'm just curious? I consider the worst symptom to be the bloat... followed by fatigue. What about you?
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Pain followed very closely by bloat. 
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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is the worst, and also fatique. I find it quite difficult to truly enjoy life with both of these symptoms. The fatique is bad for me, I always feel like I'm in a dream-like or mindless state. One time I came home from a friend's house and slept for 15 hours straight!
The bloating just makes me feel utterly horrible about myself, and it's also very difficult to completely control.
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Diarrhea by far! I do have the fatigue as well, but I'm also anemic and not sure which is causing it and don't understand how the IBS would cause it. My fatigue IS bad, definitely, but the D is worse b/c of the bad situations it creates.
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Erin
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IBS-D, GERD...
I got it comin' outta 1 end or the other!
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Spasms and gas! Bloating is up there too!
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Michelle
IBS-A, pain predominant
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Incomplete evacuation, and that wonderful full of poop feeling
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The spasms can be just horrible .. but the wave of pain/nausea that come over me at the height of an episode is just excruiciating for me.
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gee tough question, that is like asking which food I miss the most? how do you pick just one?
I guess I would have to say spasms and pain or trapped gas
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Microscopic Colitis, IBS-A, GERD, Hiatal Hernia
Bethany, Ontario, Canada
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TRAPPED GAS by far (and the accompanying oh-so-attractive bloat). When people ask me to describe my IBS to them, I say it's like my ascending colon (where all my cramps are) is being squeezed in a vice, and someone has blown up some balloons in my gut behind that vice.
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IBS-C, lots of spasm and trapped gas.
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OMG... I describe it almost the same. There really is NO way to explain to people how excruciating the bloat is!
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I would have to say bloating. I feel like a blown up balloon and so unattractive. I usually wear somewhat baggy shirts just because I do feel fat all the time, even though I'm trying to gain weight! It prevents me from wearing these cute tops I bought before I got IBS! 
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Tierney
IBS-C
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for pure unsociability and embarrassment factor.......the award goes to............... the "is there a dead animal in here" smelling farts when I eat food that does not agree with me. They are the reason I rarely eat icecream in public, or broccoli.
The after alcohol cramps can be horrifying too but they don't happen as often as the stinkiness.
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S.
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Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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A toss up between trapped gas and the "full of poop feeling"!
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Maia Nartoomid
IBS-C, spastic gas
Kaua'i, Hawai'i
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I feel like that everyday. But for the past 2 weeks I have had 3 attacks and went to the hosptal
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I totally agree with this one...the pungent smell like sewer,eewwww...I hate it, GAS!!!!! This is when it doesn't matter what I eat!! Also the D. and pain/nausea that goes with it during a flare. Sue
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I would say fatigue. I've had IBS for 5 1/2 years but just started getting the "brain fog" fatigue and it is really depressing. I think it's an advanced form of IBS.
I could probably have a top 10 for this pretty easy unfortunately.
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Jon - (IBS C)
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Re: Cute Tops!
#259319 - 04/20/06 05:31 PM
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renee21
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...and skirts, and dresses... I have a whole wardrobe of them, never getting worn, slowly going out of style.
I want them to address the issue of dressing an IBS-bloated person on TLC's What Not to Wear! LOL
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IBS-C, lots of spasm and trapped gas.
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What a tough choice! So hard to choose because they are all pretty rough to live with. Everytime I read someone elses post I want to change my answer. 
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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My worst....
#259364 - 04/20/06 10:20 PM
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atomic rose
Reged: 06/01/04
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Was always the diarrhea itself. My D attacks always left me feeling like someone beat my abdomen with a baseball bat. Thank goodness I'm not dealing with that anymore! I have a little bloating and occasional C now, but I'll take that over D any day!
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BLOAT, sometimes painful, all the time uncomfortable. Makes me want to crawl right out of my skin!
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~jules
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I'd have to say nasea. Sometimes it take me hours to be able to lie down at night, usually after I've eaten the wrong thing, just to fall asleep. If I sit up, I'm fine, but once I lie down it comes right back in a matter of seconds. It would be followed by bloating. I wish I could just stick a pin me & let it out!!! Then there's the stinkin' fatiuge....I could go on.....
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Kiwi
IBS-C
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Kiwi
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Yeah, I just don't know what to do anymore. I don't want to be like this. I find it very upsetting. My prom is coming up in a couple of weeks, and I have no idea what to do. The bloating is getting so bad, I don't think I'll be able to fit in my prom dress.
I'm actually getting very upset about it at the moment, I think, because I'm expecting my period very soon, so I guess anything can make me upset. I'm supposed to be careful with my diet now, but I have a horrible attitude which makes it even more difficult.
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Michelle
IBS-A, pain predominant
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Have you tried fasting for a few days to see if the bloat goes away? The only time I'm truly bloat-free anymore is if I'm fasting. I will have to fast before my wedding because I *will not* be bloated on my big day. You might try it before your prom... after about 2.5 days of drinking only clear liquids and "eating" chicken broth, my bloat and pain go away.
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Elizabeth
all those years it wasn't IBS - it was celiac!
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That actually does help for me a lot. But thats something that I can't really do everytime I want to be flat, which is always.
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Has to be the fatigue after the attacks. I can't function because I'm so tired, and it lasts even when the attacks are gone.
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Cassandra
Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you've never loved before.
IBS A 20+ years, Chronic Migraines, Chiari Malformation (decompressed June 22, 2010), Brachial Neuritis, and ??? the list just keeps growing, but I'm still shiny side up! 
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Doesn't fasting make you more C? I wouldn't think it would be good for the IBS. Don't we need a coninual input of food to keep the spasms from getting too bad?
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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I started a fast last week (only lasted one day) but for that one day I had ZERO bloat. Got dizzy and crabby from not eating, so I ended up eating. Makes me think that I do have food allergies or something.
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~jules
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The worst for my is the big D and waiting for the Imodium to kick in. For a while there though, trapped gas was wrecking havoc in my tummy! I was popping Gas-X pills like candy. 
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NAUSEA
#259717 - 04/23/06 07:48 AM
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Miso
Reged: 04/20/06
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Loc: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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and since i have a fear of throwing up it sthe worst part, if i could get rid of the nausea and the fear, as i am sure they are intertwined i could handle th eothr symptoms.
I am sttarting to go to hypno for this so hopefully it will work, i have seen some progress but also have slipped back to it when i start to feel sick, my mind takes over.
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Really? I'm usually like that, say, if I take a laxative -I'm emptied out, if I don't eat the following day I will not be bloated. Does this mean I have food allergies and not IBS?
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I wondered the same thing because I was at such a low and was always bloated I didn't know what to do. Of course, I ended up paying a fortune for them to prick my back about 35 times and then to tell me I was not allergic to anything except possibly hazelnut... and I don't even like hazelnut! So I don't think these symptoms mean you necessarily have food allergies. But if you're curious, you can pay a lot for the tests too
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Re: Fasting?
#259851 - 04/24/06 10:02 AM
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michele
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Loc: southeastern michigan
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How long do you guys fast before the bloat goes away? I wake up bloated! Tuck in a shirt??? I'd be happy to button my pants right now!
My IBS seems to come in waves. Its ok for a while, just some bloating and gas and mild irratation than for no apparent reason, whem! Nausea, bloating, stinky gas, C, D, cramps, you name it. Once it gets bad like this it can take MONTHS to get it to calm down. I'd go a couple of days without food if I thought it would help.
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Taking it one day at a time.....
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Re: Fasting?
#259875 - 04/24/06 12:27 PM
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jules
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Loc: Michigan
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I may get blasted for saying this, but I was desperate for relief.
According to cleanse directions, I drank a cup of laxative tea (Smooth Move) before bed time...then woke up and drank a salt water flush, then fasted on a homemade beverage.
Long term it probably wasn't good, but short term...I woke up with a flat belly and maintained it until the SECOND I ate a Saltine cracker.
I felt skinny enough to go try on bikini's in harsh flourescent lighting.
ETA: I'm hoping that my insurance covers testing. I refuse to accept that this is my life forever. I'm sick of feeling sick!
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~jules
Edited by jules (04/24/06 12:33 PM)
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I fast a couple of times a year for the sheer purpose of drawing near to God. My tummy is blissfully flat...I usually drink one of two smoothies a day and the rest plain liquids.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS for everyone with IBS because coming off of a fast can be very difficult.
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Have a blessed day! Rachel
Formerly poochibelly...
I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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Re: Fasting?
#259885 - 04/24/06 01:05 PM
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michele
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Loc: southeastern michigan
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I take miralax daily so I know the bloating isn't from C. Not sure how practical this is either if as soon as I do eat something the bloating will come back.
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Taking it one day at a time.....
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Yes, I always do this. However, it takes so much work ..watch out because sometimes near the end of it I would become frusterated and start eating ..a lot, say if my period came or something.
But I definately would not recommend this to anything with a previous or existing eating disorder, as I am 100% sure that it would trigger it.
This is something, however, I cannot do too often because I also exercise rigorously, and I have a high metabolism so I would lose way too much weight.
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