IBS or IBD ? ... Or something else ?

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Hi , to start off im am a 24 year old female who has always been in reasonably good health , my weight has fluctuated somewhat throughout the years ( my own doing as I've had problems with hardly eating and eating too much , I don't know if this contributes to any factors of why I am in this pain now .... So it all started around a year ago I started to get rectal bleeding when going to the toilet usually if I strained or went a lot , and I did go a lot around 7 times a day .... doctors kept saying ibs so I just agreed and because there was no abdominal pain at this point I brushed it off . Then around 8 months ago i'd get a sudden sharp pain in lower left abdomen so bad it would make me cry and that was usually followed by a few bowel movements , sometimes painful and the pain subsided after 6 hours or so .. This happened several times .....In December I was on antibiotics for a bad chest infection which is when the problem I've had since pretty much then started after the antibiotics , It started as an infection in my

Bladder , like cystitis but pain in my legs also and back , then couple of days on came the bowel problems , mucus in stool , black bits in it , sometimes very pale ones , the swelling feeling moved from the lower left to the right as well and I felt ballooned and in agony ... I also had faintness , neusea , back pain , a pain in my throat / sore throat , which I still get 10 weeks on , my blood test showed inflamation and protein count was slightly abnormal but the doctor said nothing to worry about , I'm having a flex. Colonoscopy end of this month , I believe it to be colitis as my large intestine is always inflamed and from my blood test results , but the doctors even the gastrologist thought ibs is more likely , can ibs effect blood test results as I'm certain it doesn't

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    I'd also like to add I get a lot of gurgling activity with this problem and do not usually get pain in my upper intestines , most of its situation in the lower left q. And radiates around my side and back , with pain also in lower right q. But not as tender as the left . My lower left has slightly swollen , and is visibly bigger than the right by about an inch ... ?
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    Did they test you for Coeliac disease first of all? If not they should have. See Coeliac Org UK website for lots of information and use their Talk to Us link for help - asap.!
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    Thank you I'll check it out , :-) , no they felt no need to check for other diseases they are determined its ibs but possibly colitis
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    I'm just in agony at the moment as well had something slightly spicy yesterday and that's all it takes lol . I'm more concerned about this pain as when I go to the toilet if I push I get pain in my back as well and pain in my bladder , sometimes the pressure on my bladder is incredible and I'm

    On the toilet every 15 minutes to

    Urinate !!

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    Persist! Go back to GP and ask for a referral - perhaps a Gastroenterologist or Urologist for a start!

    A GP on TV stated over a year ago that they were told not to refer someone on to a specialist until they had visited the Surgery at least 8 times for the same problem in one year .... sad ...so...persist! Incredible but true!

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