Fatigue with ibs

God yes Ann couldn't agree mire. If I had a penny for every time I was told I was anxious or stressed! So patronising and absolute rubbish. I used to believe it too then one day I just thought what a load of rubbish. I am not stressed and not anxious. I am annoyed at you lot who don't take me seriously and scared for my health but not stressy.

Anyway same goes for you Ann. Ask them to.do a full blood screen to include vit b12 esr crp and ana and see what comes up. X

I went for 40 years without it and appeared with a vengeance. Completely undeserved and turned my life upside down. I highly do not recommend it.

I have been looking at this site, manily to see if IBS cab suddenly come on, as an adult..I am 45 and suddenly have diarrhea every day for 3 weeks or so..sometimes pain and nausea, sometimes not so horrible and can function pretty normally, but sometimes it is just awful..I went to the Dr yesterday, toolkk some blood work and samples so I will know more soon (maybe) but I was really just wondering if it was even possible to have sudden inset at my age.

Sorry to hear that and yes most definitely can happen as you describe 

I am guessing there is not much to be done, if the Dr. can't find another cause..In other words from what I have read it is a blanket diagnosis and so different for everyone, that it is hard to even know what will help. I felt horrible, near tears tis afternoon, hardly able to leave the bathroom, now I am fine, ate dinner, feeling okay..Makes me feel crazy besides being sick..

 

I got IBS in 2015 in my early forties all of a sudden as a result of stress.  It can strike at any age.  I will be 45 at the end of this year.  My worst point was waitting three and a half months for diagnosis and no doctor could help or even knew what was wrong.  I had constant stomach pain, nausea, and alternating constipation and loose, urgent stools with back pain.

After being diagnosed, things got so much better.  My bowel movements got more normal which I didn't expect, I had long periods without symptoms and I found my trigger was stress.  I take Buscopan and Nurofen to quell pain.  I have very few major episodes and food poses no problem.

Indeed it is. I have played around with my food and worked well but I have been asked to work more hours at times and for me a correlation between stress and illness but I am on a contract and I want another so I do it but as most in here know I was so ill a year or so ago I did not work for the best part of a year but working lighter duties I was fine but my problem is I am good at what I do so it I should not long before I am asked to take on more responsibilities and this is not good but now at this time I am on my own so it nice so the last hour will be calm and quiet but I have been stressed during the day I know a few days later I will be ill. I have shed many tears over this. The amount of times I was meant to be doing something with a former partner and the day arrives zany I could not leave the bathroom and when I did I was so weak I need to lie down. She knows it was illness but in the end that was not enough but I remember on more than one occasion being ill and  weak then sleeping the whole journey there. I am such a heavy sleeper after illness. Honestly I think I could have slept in the boot . In the end she quite rightly kicked me into touch but I reached a point where I just became embarrassed to be ill as it was so frequent. How many times can you say running a few hours late I have been unwell before it gets boring. It might be the truth but it is grating. I am fine today but in a few days I will not be saying the same.

Ugh, its terrible to have felt just fine and very healthy for so many years, raising my family, working, going to school etc, to feeling so awful at times. I go back to the Dr. in a month (I went earlier this week for blood work, stool culture, still waiting for results) if nothing is found on tests..I will see what he has to say about an actual diagnosis..Thank you for your response, I have felt kind of alone and having someone who has experienced this helps a lot. 

I felt alone too when no one knew what was wrong and I kept panicking that something serious had been miseed and it was too late to deal with it. At the time, there was no one who could convince me otherwise.  Even my brother told me that I would have to accept that I might never be diagnosed.  Luckily, I didn't listen to this and kept going back to the doctor even when I was in despair.

Ditto to all this and I was so bad at times that my partner at the time made me go to the doc this after a year and then she worked with me for the next year on trying to find a cure and when I was still just as unwell a year later I think she was just burnt out which was understandable and sadly did not discover this site until a few years after my initial diagnosis. I am not as bad as I was but at my peak period I was to IBS what Jeffrey Bernard was to alcohol. When something consumes you so badly there isn't any room for anything else in life. On the occasional times I was well enough to attend the theatre I had to sit right at the end of the aisle in case I needed to dash off. If it was alcohol at least I could write a book or play about. Stories of IBS does not quite have the same ring to it.

With me, it was fear that made me go to the doctor even though it was the last place I wanted to visit.  Strangely enough my fear of the worst was actually much stronger than my phobia about the doctor at the time.

I will try activia if my nausea will let me, is it the liquid protic one or ordinary activia