The longest I have gone between attacks is 27 days and it is very ramdom!! I may go a week, two days, etc. In my attack diary, it did look like I would usually get a really bad one around my period.....I know hormones are tide in with the IBS, so now that I've just had surgery and won't be having periods, I was hoping that would help, but they left my ovaries, Hormones! After surgery which was just the 15th, my first BM, was horrid and terrible, terrible colon cramps to where I was screaming, then I had one again two days later, and had the 2 1/2 hours of colon spasm, after taking a levsin, elavil, drinking peppermint tea and laying with theheating pad on my tummy....again this was at night. I did take colace which was suggested after the surgery to soften things up a bit and both days I had the cramping I took a colace?? I thought it was supposed to be gentle, so I'm not going to take it anymore, just in case that was the culperate. I have been tested for gluten, and some other stuff, which were all negative. All three colonoscopies show spasm in my ascending, transverse and descending colon, with the descending being the worse! My gi guy before the one I have now said he had never seen anyone's colon completely close like mine did and it's the exact spot I have the unGodly pain when I have an attack. He said he had to blow so much air into my colon to get that particular section to open, just so he could finish!!! So we know where the biggest problem is, but there doesn't seem to be anything they can do about it....
Thanks for the reply!!! I will be recuperating for another 5 weeks, so hopefully I can stabilize during this time.
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IBS-D, extreme pain and cramping - GERD - lactose/dairy intolerant, OCD, Fibromyalgia
DX: w/ Multiple Sclerosis 3/10
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