My IBS flare ups have been unbearable.

I've been having flare ups once a month. What I experience seems to be different than what I've read on here. I have IBS with constipation. When I have an attack, I can't pinpoint any certain food that triggers it. I call it a trapped gas attack. It starts very low in my rectum and groin area. It is very sharp excruciating pain. It feels like I need to have a bowel movement or pass gas. I am usually unable to do either. Then the pain starts moving up to my abdomen and covers my entire abdomen area. it is so excruciating that I can't sit in any position to make it feel better. I can't stand, I can't sit, and I can't lay down. Though laying down is the best position for the pain. No matter what I have tried for the pain, nothing seems to work. I just had a flare up the night before last that is still happening now. I ended up in the ER last night to make sure it wasn't my appendix. It wasn't my appendix. I took Motrin 800, Tylenol, liquid Mylanta, hyoscyamine, and Xanax for the anxiety that the pain is causing. Not one thing took the pain away. I was able to have two bowel movements but they did not give me any relief. I wasn't able to even really get out of bed. The pain hurt so bad if I moved. I was just wondering if anybody else has the same symptoms that I am having. I don't feel cramping or diarrhea. I just feel Sharp Shooting gas pains like I'm being stabbed over and over. It's causing depressionbecause nothing makes the pain go away. I'm very frustrated.

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