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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Batgirlknight
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caro13
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Batgirlknight
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Batgirlknight
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On the toilet every 15 minutes to
Urinate !!
caro13
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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 .... ...so...persist! Incredible but true!