Relatable symptoms to IBS?
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Hi there,
Currently under consultant for suspected IBS, I wanted to share recent experiences to see if this resonates with anyone?
I started off with issues relating to feelings of bloating in upper abdomen, which came and went. I had endoscopy which found 2cm hiatal hernia. I've been on 30mg daily PPI for just coming up to a year, but have had for periods before this (for GERD).
I do get the odd day where I get a bit of pain and need to go to toilet, have been through the usual of FODMAP and also taken probiotics but haven't really seemed to get to the bottom of that.
Recently, the feelings of bloating have become more frequent and consistent. There is no feeling of pain, more of discomfort. Going to the toilet doesn't seem to always relieve it. I was fairly active before, but I find it difficult to do strenuous exercise due to the feeling. Walking/going up stairs is fine.
Other notes are that I am regular (don't need to strain), don't have stomach / ab pain or obvious lumps (so kind of ruling out any kind of hernia??), I have passed a nuclear feeding test, and samples have come back ok for H. Pylori. Any blood is extremely infrequent, and always fresh.
All these things do tick the boxes for IBS, and don't as a collection seem to suggest anything else, but I just wondered if anyone was ot there feeling similar, and what you might try to relieve?
Many Thanks
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pippa58442 rlnc722
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Some of your symptoms sound like IBS especially if everything else is negative. However, with IBS, change of bowel habit and stomach pain are typical symptoms. Do you get these symptoms regularly? You say that you don't get stomach/abdominal pain and your bowel habits are regular.
rlnc722 pippa58442
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It's probably about 7-9 days per stomach pain / change in bowel habit.
It's more the abdominal bloat (or at least feeling of bloating - it's not obvious looking in mirror) that is more frequent, which I am starting to wonder if more down to longer term PPI use
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claire28932 rlnc722
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Hi - I haven't got any answers I'm afraid as I'm suffering exactly the same myself - getting desperate and feel like I'm running out of things to try.