Is this a symptom?

Your symptoms sound depressingly familiar.  But everyone experiences IBS differently.   My main symptoms are pain and constipation. I take Buscopan and Ibruprofen but now I rarely need any medication because my pain is very mild.  Intitially, I had IBS A and four different types of pain that radiated to my back, joints and ribs. The doctor tried me on Mebeverine while trying in vain to diagnose me and the chemist told me that this medication was very good.  But within minutes of taking it, I developed five new symptoms and felt 50% worse.

Hi. i have colitis, ibs-d, bam (bile acid malabsorption), & fructose malabsorption- all succesfully now controlled by meds & diet with the odd mild blip. Your symptoms & triggers sound the same as what i went through. any fruit or veg & fibre food made my symptoms worse(diarrea, cramping, stomach ache, urgency). i saw a specialist gastro dietician after gastroenterology sorted me out to help with diet problems of coping with ibs-d & fructose malabsorption. i was worried that i couldnt eat any fruit or veg anymore as it would cause symptoms & pass through coming out looking like it went in. she suggested some root veg in small 80g(handful) quantities at a time: butternut squash, carrots, swede, turnips. i am ok with all of these in small quants sometimes a but of "twisting" in gut after but not painful & no diarrea. fruit she suggested small bananas, kiwi, & canteloupe melon (all in small amounts of about 80g(handful) at one time. dont like melon but have been ok with bit of banana & 1 kiwi in a smoothie. dairy is my saviour when i have no appetite. half a pint of semi skimmed or 1% fat milk i often have for brekkie as it is a nutritious food in liquid form & better than nothing at all. if i feel sickly or warm acidy tummy, milk soothes this. but everyone is different, not everyone gets on with dairy. i gave up porridge & brown bread as this made bloating remarkable after eating. i have white bread now. if even fruit juice gives you diarrea as well as fruit, maybe worth you asking to be tested for fructose malabsorption. after my colitis was clinically controlled i was still getting symptoms like you so my gastroenterologist had me tested for bile acid malabsorption which mimics the symtoms of several bowel conditions. it came back positive & within weeks of starting meds for this my symptoms dramatically improved & i was able to return to work & go about daily activities without worrying about urgent toilet needs. I think you should ask to be tested for this too-its called a sehcat scan. i like a glass of red wine or two at the weekend & it doesn't give me any problems with my bowels either. stress can be a trigger for ibs, but drinking 3 glasses of wine a night to relax isn't the answer-i've been there & it just makes any depression/anxiety worse in the long term. i am on a maintenance dose of anti-depressants which keeps me stable long term & controls my general anxiety very well. hope this helps.

p.s in answer to your question about golf ball feeling, i havent had that, but used to get a terrible regular feeling of incomplete emptying causing bowel muscles to spasm/strain(feels like you still have some more to come out) the frequent spasming caused me to have anal fissures several times(a very painful tear in the rectum) but this feels like you have glass inside your bottom not golf ball.