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hi my name is tatiana and i am 21 years old i was daignosed with ibs almost exactly 1 year ago in february that is when my symptoms first appeared before that i would go to the bathroom almost 3 times a day everyday. now i have ibs- c so they tell me. i go usually once a day but still feel like i have to go more, even though the amount is usually enough i am bloated all the time constantly it never gets relieved, i had never felt that before now this is where i am confused fist off i never get pain i mean once in like 3 months ill have slight mild i would not even call it pain. i have never experienced pain with this. and two, i have this sausage shaped lump that moves up and down what i inhale and then exhale i can move it. it lies at the lower part of my abdomen and my cecum, which is the first part of your colon, in the right lower quadrant is distended as well. i have had a ct scan and an ultrasound last april and nothing came up. so i guess these lumps are my bowels full but i have never heard of that symptom in ibs patients and from what i see and hear ibs usually is accompanied by pain. and then again i am not going to the bathroom as much but still go once a day religiously in the morning. now i quit smoking 2 to 3 weeks before the symptom started i heard smoking is a stimulant and makes you go so that could explain the decrease in stools. not having great bowel movements was normal when i was little i would have pellet like stools all my life and then started going normally when i started smoking now sometimes pellet sometimes normal never diarrhea. is this ibs or is this chronic constipation? now the bloating is the symptom that really irritates me bloating and distention. actually i just have distention from the lumps in my bowels gas sometimes but nothing out of the ordinary. im confused they say i have ibs but do i fit the criteria? can a person have ibs with no pain at all?

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