IBS caused by Naproxen?

The type of anti inflammatory drug you are taking can mess with your gut; this is a recognised problem. However, whether these drugs cause IBS, I do not know. I would ask your doctor about that.

not by any means an authority on this. You need to ask your doctor but unlikely to have been caused by one tablet. But if you have an inflammatory condition that can affect your gut. More likely to be that I feel.

Doctors have said that one tablet won't have caused a long-lasting problem but I feel it's too much of a coincidence with the onset on symptoms. I also feel that doctors never want to blame anything on medication, since they're the one prescribing.

Unfortunately this is true with some doctors. However, I got immediate bad reactions from taking one anti spasmodic tablet that my doctor prescribed to test out whether I had IBS. My doctor accepted that I had had a side effect. The bad reaction was not long lasting. I knew a friend who developed permanent gut problems after antibiotics but she had taken a full course of the medication and not just one tablet.

Perhaps see a different doctor for a second opinion.

I struggle with naproxen, I need it for my period pain but I get terrible reflux and my doctor believed it probably contributed to my gastritis and oesophagitis I had earlier this year. When I take it I have to have a double dose esomeprazole. I am not sure if it causes IBS though because my period gives me IBS and that is the only time I take it.

I'll be following this with interest. I started developing IBS-like symptoms about two years ago, in my early 70s, and things are now getting worse.

I'm afraid I've been a bit silly - though as a former nurse I should have known better. For many years now I've been waking up with headaches - which my GP thinks may be down to sleep apnoea - so have long been in the bad habit of taking 200-400mg of ibuprofen (brand name Nuro/fen - trying to avoid getting modded!) every morning. I've sometimes been taking another dose when waking in the small hours as well. My total intake has been around 20 200mg tablets per week. I honestly can't remember when this started but it must have been something like 10 years ago.

I've only recently come across the information that NSAIDs can cause - or at least trigger - IBS, so stopped all ibuprofen two weeks ago. I've now been drinking an extra glass of water on waking, although I'm generally quite good about hydration anyway. To my surprise, this works just as well as the ibuprofen tablets! I've never taken paracetamol/acetaminophen, as I've always found it completely ineffective, so that wouldn't be an alternative solution. In any case, it's far more toxic to the liver than ibuprofen.

I figure that if it is indeed 10 years of heavy ibuprofen use that's caused my bowel symptoms, it's going to take a lot longer than two weeks for the symptoms to subside, but I'm hopeful of good results. I can't believe I took that stuff for so long, especially now I've discovered a big glass of water works just as well and almost as quickly.

i refuse to take anything this they are all rubbish and make you feel rotten!