I’m 18 and have just been diagnosed with IBS. I saw on multiple television specials and in magazines about colon clensing helping the bowls and your digestion system, and I was wondering if it was really worth it?

Let me know your experience with it preferably, also anymore health benifits that come with it? Thanks a ton :]

What major celebrities have irritable bowel syndrom (ibs) or Crohn’s Disease? Thanks So Much!

I have been with my partner almost 4 years and he has a bad case of irritable bowel syndrome. Also he gets trapped air which causes him great pain and his burps are really long. I wondered what’s available for him to take to relieve this. He always seems to be in pain and it gets in the way of everythin. The doctor said his ibs gets worse when he is nervous. I’m dreading the birth of out child next year. Poor thing. Does anyone have anythin similar?

I have been with my partner almost 4 years and he has a bad case of irritable bowel syndrome. Also he gets trapped air which causes him great pain and his burps are really long. I wondered what’s available for him to take to relieve this. He always seems to be in pain and it gets in the way of everythin. The doctor said his ibs gets worse when he is nervous. I’m dreading the birth of out child next year. Poor thing. Does anyone have anythin similar?

Having a rectal exam ?
Heres the story.
Im going in for my annual physical exam soon with my primary care doctor.
I also see a specialist from time to time dealing with my IBS and other GI problems.
Not to get too gross, but when i go ( #2) it ‘kinda’ hurts, not enough for extreme pain but not enough to ignore.
I plan on bringing this up when i go in for the physical soon.
When i bring this up, do you think my doctor will do a rectal exam right there on the spot or do you think the doctor will recommend me going to a proctologist or recommend going to my specialist for this (which would kind be kind of a bad thing since i live so far away from my specialist, which is why i see them only from time to time).
Just wondering what to expect when i go in.

I was diagnosed with IBS when I was twelve.. I am not turning fourteen. I had stomach problems way before I had ever even went to the doctor about it. I hate my stomach , i’m only a kid.. My doctor said it was caused by getting nervous all the time like I did. She said It wasn’t good for my body,what can I do to calm the pain?

I am doing the above thing for a month. And also drinking lot of water. But still the problem exist. Is there any way to reduce the problems with IBS with life style?
I have visited 3 doctores for my problem. And have done scan for my stomach.

I’m 23 years old, no family history of colon cancer, non smoker.

About a year ago I was very constipated and had trouble passing a larger stool. After, I developed what I though were hemorrhoids or a fissure. I would go to the bathroom and feel a very quick sharp pain followed by a tiny bit of blood on the tissue when I would wipe.

This happened on and off for quite some time but has not happened in the last few months.

About 3 weeks ago I started noticing my stools have been much looser than normal. The amount has not increased. I go once a day and it’s basically really soft and breaks into maybe 5-7 pieces in the water. They are usually soft but not that soft.

I went to the doctor. She did a rectal exam as well as a FOBT test (tested stool for blood). The FOBT was negative and my rectal exam checked out fine.

She said she though it might be a mild virus or IBS and is having me change my diet a little. I did but it hasn’t helped much. Although I’ve been very worried this past week.

I’v been reading so much into this. About people being misdiagnosed, the FOBT being wrong, people getting this cancer young. It’s really got me TERRIFIED.

Do you think this is cancer or not? I have no other symptoms.

There’s this girl i like in one of my college classes.

when the class takes tests I get loud IBS that can be heard.

she sits right behind me. I get embarrassed when she hears me because it’s like a fart that can’t be smelled, but definitely heard.

do you think she will think bad about me with my gas problems?

So for the last couple of months I have been experiencing digestion problems. At first I suffered from constipation along with excessive bloating. It eventually went away after taking natural colon cleansing pills. Everything was going fine I felt like it my stomach was slowly regulating. I started taking vitamins as well and after a week or so stopped because I felt pains in my stomach. I had never experienced any trouble with vitamins and I found them easy to take. I took them with food but after a week or I started having stomach pains and my stomach was bloated and hard. I stopped taking any kind of pill and it helped, but my stomach would still hurt and bloat up even if I hadn’t eaten. Up to now I can not take my multivitamins or any kind of pills because it bloats up the lower part of my stomach and I will experience pain and constipation. Even when I don’t take any pills I wake up with the lower part of my stomach bloated until I have a bowel movement, and depending on the size of it that’s how much the my bloating will go away. I eat healthy and don’t eat greasy foods. I went to the doctor and they told me I might have IBS but that my symptoms are a little uncommon for IBS. They gave me medication and since its pills my stomach bloats up. Can anyone help me? I feel like something else is wrong and it has to do more with my digestion and my intestines.

There’s this girl i like in one of my college classes.

when the class takes tests I get loud IBS that can be heard.

she sits right behind me. I get embarrassed when she hears me because it’s like a fart that can’t be smelled, but definitely heard.

do you think she will think bad about me with my gas problems?
I would definitely date someone with IBS! actually i would prefer it because then we would be able to understand each other and work together to solve the issue.

Ok so this started a little over a month ago. It started with a tooth ache, then my lower abdomen started bothering me, two days later, I was in and out of the bathroom about 6 times in two hours feeling like I was going to have diarrhea or throw up. I went to the dentist because I though it had something to do with my tooth, which he said I was just grinding my teeth. So I went to the doctor two days later, and he said it was just intestinal cramping. It was still bothering me two days later, but it was like a dull ache with my stools being all over the place. ie. loose, diarrhea, excess mucus in them. So I went back again and he sent me to have a CT scan and X-Ray of my abdomen, which all came back negative. So he then sent me to see a specialist on May 19th, I went to him, and he gave me some Donnaltal (sp?) and said to come back in a month if it isn’t any better. Well it hasn’t gotten any worse, but it hasn’t really gotten a lot better, I bought some Bennefiber and have been taking that, and trying to make sure I get enough fiber into my diet for about two weeks now. Well sometimes when I wipe I see like little specs of what look light orange, or maybe even light red, but pretty sure it’s light orange specs in my stool or on the toilet paper (no bigger then maybe a grain of Kosher salt) Saturday and today my stool smelled real bad. Wondering if maybe this is Colon Cancer, IBS, or maybe just IBS with anxiety. not sure I can wait another two weeks to go see the specialist again. Again I am a 23 year old male, who is overweight but working on changing that once I figure out what this is.
I’ve also had blood test for Diabetes, Kidney, and Liver Function. Urine test were negative too.
Keep leaving stuff out, sometimes it kind of looks like there is undigested food in my stool.

I have IBS and this causes a lot of stress in that area, for instance the testicles tighten and once, just before that happened, some of the blood vessels were hard to the touch. One reason I ask is I tried having sex when my belly was bothering me (think I ate something bad) and I couldn’t keep it up. Now there werer a lot of other factors invloved but my testes were already being bothered by my bowels and I thought this might have played a part.

I was told I have IBS and that I should start taking Metemusil. Has this worked for you? Any other things that helped.Also did you find yourself to be very tired.I sleep for 7-9 hours a night and I still wake up like I didnt sleep at all.

I don’t want any assumptions or guesses that that is what I have going on. I want PROOF, concrete test results that say YES, you have IBS! Is there such thing, or is it just a subjective judgement call guess.

I just don’t like treating what "could" be going on. I need evidence that states it IS textbook IBS—like bloodwork, etc.

I have tried all the meds docs have prescribed,including Zelnorm.Nothing works.Though a cure would be nice,I’m just looking for something to relieve the pain and discomfort,at least enough to let me have somewhat of a normal life.My type of IBS is with constipation,not diarrhea.

I happen to have them both, unfortunately. At 1 time 2 years ago, I had the WORST abdominal pain that summer. I even had to go to the E.R. by an ambulance. It turns out, as I suspected, I had some complications with IBS. Somehow, I have thought about that I didn’t have any problems with my bowels before I was diagnosed with Diabetes almost 20 years ago. I hope somebody (perhaps a doctor) can help me with this question.

I recently found out i have IBS, and it is very frustrating and annoying because every time I have to do things at school that make me nervous, sure enough IBS affects me. I am just wondering what I can do to prevent this from happening.

I’m pretty sure I’m about to be diagnosed with IBS, does anyone know the coast guards policy on what happens to you after being diagnosed and put on medication? And what is the best medication? Thank you!!

Back ground:
I am a 20 year old female
Gall bladder was removed when I was 17
Have had digestive problems since 15 years old, also have had hemorrhoids (those don’t really bother me as I keep it under control)
I have been diagnosed with IBS, I do not have Chrones, I’ve already been tested.

Going on right now…
Ive been having crazy hours. I was working 70 hours a week, I am down to about 60 hrs a week now. (tryign to pay for a university is not fun….) I have been taking WAYYYY too much caffeine. I got an excellent brand of liver cleanse to try and pee and excrete all of that and it has worked well. I have improved my diet, It is still not great due to the fact I am so busy, but it isn’t bad. I work out about 3 days a week and I am in pretty decent shape.

It was suggested that I take digestive enzymes because I was feeling bloated ALL time time, even after I went to the bathroom. I even took a diaretic because I take birth control thinkign it was water weight. while that helped some, it definately didn’t solve the bloating. The enzymes have been working great. they helped me digest my food much better.

Lately though… my digestion is very off, even with the enzymes. (It is also a good quality enzyme) When having bowel movements, I have noticed a lot of undigested food. I also am not retaining the nutrients from my food well. I have been feeling sluggish. I drink about 70-90 ounces of water a day and still I feel sluggish.

Would anyone happen to have any ideas of what might be causing this. Could it just be my lack of sleep? (i only get about 4-5 hours a night) Could it be the caffeine? Could it be a combination? I just feel so ill sometimes.

Anyways.. thanks for any help or suggestions.

I started going to the doctor because i have been dealing with persistant nausea for about 7 months now. basically everything and anything causes me to feel nauseous ALL the time. I had a couple blood tests done along w/ the urine test and she had no clue what it was. she advised to make an appointment for an ultrasound and if that showed nothing that i would go to a specialist. She had mentioned that my syptoms sounded like some kind of ulcer but not likely. i just received a letter saying that i have IBS which came out of nowhere. I’ve only had blood tests done so does anyone know what test would show it was IBS? She told me to just go to the classes available at the hospital.
Also, my symptoms are persistant nausea, burning sensation in the stomach like i havent eaten in a long time, get hungry every 2-3 hrs and lots of burping. No specific food seems to make it worse either.

Hi, I was looking up relief for ibs, and saw that Align helps many things and diarrhea, with IBS. Has anyone used it and did it work? i need it specifically for diarrhea, and sometimes bloating/gas. Thanks for your help!

Lately ibs has been really kickin my butt, i can’t every get a break from it. In school right after i eat lunch i have to sprint to the bathroom. Which is terribly embarassing. Is there anyway i can prevent they symptoms of ibs or atleast help slow it down a bit? Thanks!

i have ibs, therefore i have pretty bad digestion. i take lots of supplements daily, multi, fish oil, cla, gluten enzyme, probiotics, digestive enzymes, peppermint oil, green tea daily gentle cleanse, and some others to help.. i also just in general try to stay away from foods that are bad for me, or will make my stomach hurt. i have also started exercising so that it helps m digestion and just to loose weight. (im not fat) juust a little big, well not really. i would just consider myself curvy, hahaha. im 15, i’m 5’2 and i weigh about 125.

some questions i have are:
1. is it my metabolism or ibs that makes my stomach bloats right after food ? because, i wake up in the morning with a flat stomach and by the time i eat something.. i’m bloated for the rest of the day.
2. why can some people eat whatever they want and there stomach doesnt even look like they ate anything. why doesnt there stomachs get bigger ?
3. i really want to speed up my metabolism, how can i do this, besides excercise.
4. this isnt in the topic buut, my period is coming up in a couple days, annnd i’m eating so much more, is it from that ?
juuustt.. so you know, i eat pretty healthy, i have junk food occasionally.. annd, all the food i eat comes from organic food stores, as well as my supplements. so they arent the crappy supermarket brand.

I have had IBS for 3 years. If I did not have kids I would cut out my own colon. I’m that desperate. I have eliminated everything from my diet. (I survive on toast only and yes i eliminated toast for over a week so it can’t be that.) I want to find a doctor to give me a colostomy. My kids are 8, 6, and 4 year old twins. Don’t blame the kids. I wonder if the ob did something wrong when the twins were born by c-section because my back hurt for a year after they were born. As soon as my back stopped hurting my IBS started. I have tried everything, medicines, natural remedies nothing works. I have given up on doc’s. Don’t say it’s stress. IBS is my only stress factor. I’m happy and calm as long as I’m not spending the day in the bathroom. By the way I have diarrhea about 5 days a month. (down fron 20 two years ago) and I’m never constipated. Please help.