IBS - terrible nausea - help!!

Hi Fiona,

Thank you for your reply. I had tried this before but I maybe didn't stick to it long enough. I'm really underweight with this and it's a lot of foods to cut out at the beginning. However I think in the long term, looking at it, it's probably worth it to stop feeling sick all the time!

I'll look it up again now. Thanks and I hope things continue to go well for you

Hi Elle,

i know now what you mean, I have Coeliac disease as well as IBS, also I’m intolerant to all dairy, so my diet is already restricted. I dug my heels in when a dietitian suggested it to me as I thought it would be very limiting. However my symptoms got a lot worse and I had no choice but to try it.  I have about 2 more weeks to go before I can start to re-introduce foods, and have found the diet very helpful with my condition and I’m pleased I tried it now.

That's a shame you have a lot of foods you need to cut out. Must be difficult.

I'm glad the diet is helping you but! Hopefully the culprit causing you issues is soon revealed too!!

Thank you, yes, me too. I do think you may benefit from it, it’s certainly worth a try and you will find out within a short time if it’s the same for you.

Hi Sam, thanks for your reply. I got tested for celiac a few years ago and it was negative.

However I will still keep at my doctors!!

Hi, thank you for your reply.

I don't have abdominal pain. I've tried Imodium but I feel better if I actually empty my bowels when I have flare ups rather than not go.

I will look into the diet. Thanks!

You probably need more tests from your doctor.  You may not have IBS if you don’t have abdominal pain  Last year I had an IBS D attack and had to take Imodium because the diarrhoea went on for three days and wasn’t stopping.

That sounded awful for you.

I have had a lot of tests done in hospital but nothing showed up. I think it's more me who's saying I think I have IBS as not sure what other tests can be done.

I just have no clue what I am eating that is causing it. I think it is two foods, Cut them out but still get little flare ups. So looking right into all ingredients in foods. It's just so hard. I wish there was a place out there that helped!

What tests have you had done?  I had an ultrasound, stool tests for fecal caprotectin and h pylori, a urine test and celiac test. Everything was negative so I was diagnosed with IBS.  The best person to go to for help is your doctor.  I had to go eight times to various doctors but I got answers in the end.

Have you tried a food diary? Have a look at the Low Fodmap diet.

Oh is it not. You always hear of nausea not being a main symptom but I guess there are a lot of us who do suffer it.

I am the same as you. Feel really sick, sometimes feel like i am going to be as it's so overwhelming but never am! Severe episodes can knock me for days too!

After saying my illness is more intermittent after being ill only a few weeks ago and thinking I was good for 6 months guess what I had a repeat today, only something very unusual happened. I was ill from about 8 until midday and if I am going to be sick it usually happens around this time. Went back to bed for a few hours and usually after this I feel better. I still felt tired but I could move about and just started the washing up at 4pm and I was sick. That delay was the longest I have had and screwed me up a little as wide awake at bed time. 

it is ibs gas and vomiting is a symptoms