Curious about IBS symptoms, right side abd pain

Hi, I'm in same boat with you, right side, tests seemed ok (No colonoscopy though). Do you have any updates?

Hi, I'm in same boat with you, right side, tests seemed ok (No colonoscopy though). Do you have any updates?

I have exactly the same symptoms (also 29 years, male in decent shape). Right tummy in pain but rather 2-3 inches from the belly button, I got right back pain too. Sometime its a tight/ tense pain, sometimes its stabbing pain. I can feel how my tummy pain moves into my back. Sometimes I have loose bowels, sometimes my bowel movement is completely normal.

The only difference is that the pain also moves into my right groin and pubic bone. Do you have that too? 

I am really unsure whether this can be caused by IBS?! Anyone here with this symptom?

I will get a colonoscopy on the 28th of August. My doctor already told me that she is convinced that its IBS.

Thanks a lot,

Marc

as far as I know, there is no cure. Lifestyle changes and medication can ease the pain. It is usually a chronic lifelong condition. However, you can have periods of no symptoms and no pain.

What symptoms do you have exactly?

Br

Marc

Helpful to read all of this. I have the same symptoms with two clean CT scans — originally suspected appendicitis but the pain was not that severe. Any updates from the posters? OP how did you decide to try acid reflux medication? I have a colonoscopy in a month. GI suspects IBS or gut sensitivity. 

I have only just started treatment but having heard about others who were "cured" of IBS after everything else failed using bowel directed hypnotherapy in Wythenshaw university hospital in manchester england I did some reasearch and found out about a professor Peter Whorewell who is a supposed genious expert on treating ibs and I believe has written books. He has set up a team of clinical hypnotherapists which have been treating ibs patients for some time now.

Like I say I have had four one hour sessions so far and it's supposed to be at least twelve one hour sessions over twelve weeks along with recordings to use each day at home.

I am lucky as I live 40 minutes away from the hospital and being a British citizen get the treatment free on the national health service but I do believe other patients get treatment via Skype as they cannot even leave their homes due to ibs so I am assuming they would take on other patients from different parts of the UK. I do know that their are other Hypnotherapists who are private who also offer hypnotherapy for ibs and they call it a special name like pure hypnotherapy which Is supposedly a strong hypnotherapy that is longer sessions but has lasting results opposed to usual hypnotherapy that often only provides a temporary fix. I have had hypnotherapy before for other reasons and will tell you it's not magic or voodoo and your not in any trance or made to do things. They do not dangle a medallion in front of your face and put you in a trance they just show you how to relax and so then you are focused on their voice so you naturally stop thinking about all the problems and stresses in your life or things you need to do. When your feeling relaxed they suggest things that they want you to visualise and ask you to place your hand on your stomach and think about the palm of your hand being warm against your stomach but the back of your hand feeling colder. Then they ask you to visualise or imagine that your warm in your palm is sinking into your abdomen and calming your stomach and bowels and let me tell you it does seem to relax it even though I have only actually had two of the actual treatments out of four sessions. The first session was questions and answers and explanation of the treatment and the second session was just hypnotherapy to help you relax. I believe private hypnotherapists charge something like £120 per session and again it's over maybe 8 or 9 weeks but I think so me offer a discount if paid all in one. I suppose some people have such bad symptoms with ibs that they would pay anything to get rid of it. I couldn't afford it but had I not got it free on the NHS I would probably have had to borrow the money for private treatment. I have had mebeverine buscopan ranitidine all kinds of anti anxiety meds some were like torture!! and had all the usual peppermint meds and none of them worked for me so just hoping hypnotherapy works like it's worked for all the other people who have mentioned they have had hypnotherapy on this site.

I was also found to have a fatty liver although a non alcoholic fatty liver as there's a difference and I don't drink alcohol. Was told losing weight would help dramatically and went on the low carb high fat diet and lost a stone in weight which brought my blood sugars down below diabetic range. So I reversed my type2 diabetes which I was diagnosed with two months after I started feeling back pain and bloated. Saying that I also had oesophagitis and gastritis and found to have helicobacter pylori in my stomach which took weeks of two strong antibiotics and a proton pump inhibitor acid reducing drug being taken all together each day. I cleared the h.pylori infection but it made bloating worse and the proton pump inhibitor gave me a temporary heart murmur hair loss and dizzy spells which were frightening thinking I may need heart surgery. Turns out it was just side effects of the drug omeprazole (nasty nasty drug to me) anyway hopefully hypnotherapy will do the trick or at least improve my ibs a lot as well as ease stress which has for years been called a trigger for ibs.

Was also told IBS is a very vague name for our problem and that it should really be called chronic bowel malfunction as it affects so many parts of the body and it's like as though your abdomen is your second brain or mind. People suffer many symptoms of IBS brain fog back pain thigh pain stinging fingers toes stinging arms legs and thighs and I am told around 70% of IBS sufferers will have general anxiety disorder and around 60% will have different degrees of fibromyalgia and especially women. As a man I was terrified finding pain in one testical until this professor told me it's a symptom of IBS that's not well known. I also found three other men on this web site who suffered with testicular pain also and it was a huge relief to be honest.