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Posted 7/13/2010 5:50 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks Marsky, I appreciate it. So far I've only discovered that too much gluten, too much sugar and lactose are sure to set me off, also if I 'do too much' (ie, have a life!) it sometimes sets it off. I can go for weeks with virtually no symptoms, then have a whole week where I feel like rubbish and poop during the night.
I take a vitamin, mineral and probiotic supplement every day, as a course of antibiotics last Autumn set off a really nasty bout which lasted for 8 weeks and was active both day and night.
I just get incredibly frustrated with it as it's so unpredictable and when it happens, it destroys my quality of life.
Ah well. *sighs* Guess I just have to find ways to live with it.

Thanks again.
Posted 10/8/2010 3:20 PM (GMT 0)

i dont know if its what i have or not but i wake up in the middle of the night, once a month or two months, and i feel hot and like im going to be sick, so i go to the bathroom incase i am, and my stomach feels as if i have diarroeah, and its like i need to go to the toilet bad i fell like its going to come out both ends, then i start to be sick, but when im sick nothing actually comes up, im just doing the motions but last time it happened a few weeks ago stuff came up but not much!, also after being sick the need or the toilet goes,  i dont know what it is or why and dont want to go to the doctors and look like an idiot. but my dad had gall bladder attacks and got gall stones removed as did my uncle is it early stages of that?

the post is quite old so i dont know if anyone will reply, but thanks if you do.

Posted 10/8/2010 6:16 PM (GMT 0)
Kimbee, why would going to the doctors make you look like an idiot?

Some people get the feeling of nausea with their IBS. Vomiting is a red flag symptom.
Posted 10/8/2010 6:17 PM (GMT 0)
In IBS there is a problem with the release of serotonin which is mainly produced in the gut from cells in the digestive tract. It is also a chemical that signals nausea.
Posted 12/3/2010 6:02 PM (GMT 0)
Hey everyone. So i'm sixteen, and lately I've been having frequent migraines, and occasionally ill get what these women are describing as, "oh god, I'm going to throw up" moments, and I always feel very sore and tired with a very thirsty and hungry feeling, but I can't eat or drink anything without feeling horribly nauseas and very faint. Although the migraines run in my family, they're worse then I've ever had them in the past, and I've been getting them since age eight.

Recently I've been trying to shrink my stomach, and I read that cutting down on your meal sizes, and eating very healthy helps that. So for the last couple weeks I haven't been eating too much, maybe even at times missing a meal or two. Last night I ate a full meal for dinner for the first time in a week, and I drank about 28 ounces of water, and about five glasses of fruit juice throughout the day. I also took some new excedrin migraine pills for the migraine that I was starting to feel developing.

Almost an hour later, I had bad abdominal bloating, and a few cramps, and then a runny bowel movement that was very short. I hung out with some friends, and felt almost perfectly fine, besides a small stomach ache.

Then this morning I woke up for school, and felt VERY sick, as if I had the flu. But I had no fever. When I tried taking a shower I had to stop and take breaks to sit down, because I felt the sudden urge to vomit, and almost out of breath, as if I just got done running.

I don't take vitamins, or drink milk, and I hardly eat a lot of meat. I need help PLEASE!
Posted 12/4/2010 7:58 PM (GMT 0)
trisashples

were you diagnosed with IBS?

what has your doctor said about the migranes?
Posted 12/10/2010 6:24 AM (GMT 0)
Hello folks, I am a 50 year old male diagnosed with severe IBS. I gather it is somewhat unusual for "men" to have IBS. But I have it. BIG TIME. My wife found this forum posting and emailed it to me. I have similar but different issues with nausea/dizziness/energy drain. But mine occurs after voiding either urine or stool, but not all the time. I can go two weeks without any symptoms then go empty my bladder or stool and 10 minutes later I'm hit HARD by nausea/dizziness/energy drain. It sucks the life right out of me. Dare I say - this crap sucks!!

This started up after having 12 inches of my colon removed due to Diverticulitis. I call Diverticulitis little men with machetes!! I'm truly grateful to be free of that misery but now I have to fight recurring nausea/dizziness/energy drain. My GI surgeon who did the resection says sometimes when they go into the gut the disruption caused by the surgery causes what I have. Well aint that special?! How do we FIX it?! He has me on Nortriptylene nightly, Zofran and Hycosamine as needed for the nausea/dizziness/energy drain. Sure these help somewhat but I want this crap to STOP!!!

I totally understand when some of you say your doctor looks at you like you are a freak of nature. I get that a lot in my quest to RESOLVE this. I want this to STOP! Because it stops me. It truly ruins my life. I haven't worked since Feb of this year. I am a talented Systems Engineer who has built a successful career. I stopped working because I can no longer trust "my system" to not let me and my employer down. I'm trying to figure out what next looks like. I've no clue right now.

So that's my misery. If anyone else is in the same boat I'd love to hear from ya. I'm at my wits end with this............................... I'm prone to using vastly more offensive words to describe my misery so please forgive any of the above.

Do know that I understand what this misery does to us.
Posted 12/23/2010 12:46 AM (GMT 0)
I normally dont use these types of forums but I am so fed up with my health. I have always had stomach issues since I was a child. But about 5yrs ago I started having sudden nausea,and I would feel like someone rubbed bengay all over my body, which would be relieved by having a BM. It's not C or D just soft stool. Then I would feel fine until the next wave of nausea would strike about 5 mins later. Then off to the bathroom again..This cycle would continue until I would take a few immodium. Now its to the point to where 2 or 3 immodium dont work. I sometimes have to take 10 immodium before i get relief. I have had an endoscopy, and colonoscopy. I also have been tested for gluten disease. All the doctors say is you probably have GERD and IBS. They give me prevacid and tell me to take benefiber or miralax. However nothing helps. Any help or suggestions would greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Posted 3/31/2011 7:08 PM (GMT 0)
I have been fighting IBS for at least ten years and have been on every med imaginable and none work for a long period of time.   Right now, I'm fighting nausea and have been trying Zofran which is a drug used to keep the nausea down in chemo patients.  It doesn't work either.  I live near a hospital and one of the chemo patients there was telling me the nurse told her to try graham crackers and coke (four or five squares of graham crackers with sips of coke--aybe 1/4 bottle).  It works! I know it sounds crazy but I was willing to try anything for the nausea.  Then, there's the sometimes constipation problem for which the gastro MD put me on MiraLax 2X a day and that almost killed me.  So, now, he's suggesting once a day which still gives me 2-3 bouts of diarrhea in the morning but at least I'm not constipated (for a while, anyway).  I do have one problem and wonder if anyone can help me.  My stools are pencil thin and have been for about a month.  I'm seeing my gastro man next week and we're going to talk about that.  I've had CT scans of my stomach, x-rays of my intestines, colonoscopy 2 years ago and everything just pointed to IBS but this is something new.  Can anyone help or do you have any suggestions????    Thanks--this forum is wonderful.   At least I don't feel like I'm battling this alone.  What do you tell your friends when you know you better now make any plans because IBS is so unpredictable.  I'm losing friends quickly because they just don't understand and I'm not going to try explaining because this whole thing is so gross.

nono  

Posted 5/3/2011 12:40 AM (GMT 0)
Hi! I've had similar symptoms where I will be perfectly fine and then all of a sudden, i feel like I'm going to throw up. I am also extremely afraid of throwing up or anyone else throwing up so I thought part of it was in my head. I thought I just had a little stomach ache and was turning it into a huge deal, but then I realized it kept happening. It started this winter and there were points I was over the toilet for hours or I'd just have to lay down. I am a college student so sometimes I have to skip class or leave to go to the bathroom for being afraid I am going to throw up, but then I go to the bathroom and it eventually goes away. Usually I don't have D but sometimes my stools are loose and then other times I am constipated and won't go to the bathroom for a couple of days. I've put a pattern to it where I will feel sick almost every time before I go to the bathroom. It usually doesn't last long, but sometimes it does. I am lactose intolerant so when it first started happening, I thought it was that but now I'm not so sure. Also, I started taking Yaz for my acne recommended by my dermatologist, but that was making me feel really sick so I got off of that in March. I know Yaz has some pretty terrible symptoms and and cause gall bladder disease, so I am thinking after reading all of these posts that maybe this is gall bladder?? I just really want to know what I should do about it because it is starting to interfere with my life. Thanks so much for your help!
Posted 5/8/2011 11:42 AM (GMT 0)
I have been reading a lot of your answers, doctors, tests tests tests and no results. I honestly think some of you should go check out a colonics specialist, there are parasites in over 90 percent of human beings bowel movements and there are only certain ways you can get rid of them, they can cause you to become very ill because they hold toxins in them. I also recommend a good detox and liver cleanse to get rid of the toxins in your gallbladder and liver, which a detox does not have to be the California way, which is not eating for 4 days and replacing meals with supplements(it works though), you can also detox over 28 days by changing your diet. I recently had a lot of the same issues as I see here but I detoxed and went to get a colonics, I thought i was going to pass out before my last bowel movement, it felt like I did recently, my temperature went up, I had a horrible headache, I thought I was going to throw up, and when I released it, it didn't even smell, it was all just the toxins in my intestines, it's because a lot of the food we eat and things we consume are not as good for us and have alot of by products. I really recommend looking into it, I have a friend with lupus and after her colonics and detox she immediately noticed a massive difference in her joints, I also recommend cutting out all meat with hormones and antibiotics in it as well, that made a huge difference in my health. But really, if you are having problems, save yourself the trouble and find a good colonics clinic, that is responsible for more of your symptoms than you realize.
Posted 6/13/2011 2:47 PM (GMT 0)
Hello, I have the same thing going on for the past few years. Its gotten worse the past year. Ive also had lots of blood tests. h plori, my lipase and white blood cells were elevated for a long time. Had a ultrasound done last month. gallbladder, pancreas and all that were normal. I was just wondering if you ever found out some answers. I just started a new job and waiting for my health inc kicks in before seeing a GI doc. Already owe 3000 in hospital bill for this.

thanks for your time

CATRIN1197 said...
Ok, any help or advice with this one would be great.
I read a previous thread that talked about sudden nausea followed by the urge to have a bowel movement. But there was no advice on what caused it or how to make it stop!

I've had this problem that I call "oh my God I feel like I"m going to puke" attacks for about 5 years. They come and go every couple of months, but when they come, I get them about every other day. I'll be doing normal day to day things, like sitting here typing on my computer or washing dishes, or cooking, and suddenly I get this feeling in the back of my mouth and throat, mouth starts watering, I start shaking, sweating, and swallowing like there is no tomorrow, and I think I'm going to throw up at any second. I usually don't have dry heaves with it, but sometimes I do, and let me tell you how petrified I am of throwing up. . . . this is just a wickedly horrible experience even though it only lasts for a couple of minutes. When it starts to go subside, I get gas really bad and need to have a bowel movement.

I've heard the panic attack stories and reflux from my docs. They tell me basically that I need to deal with it because they don't understand what I'm explaining to them. They seem to think as long as I'm not puking, then nothing is happening.

If anybody can help me, I'd so greatly appreciate it.

Thank you!

Posted 6/13/2011 2:56 PM (GMT 0)
This is the same situation for me...... I am 22 years old and have been through this now for about 4 years.   It took my doctors over a year to find that my gallbladder was bad. But that did not seem to make me feel better.  I still get flu like symptoms followed by going to the bathroom.  I tried medicine for acid reflux and it did not work.  I had an endoscopy as well... to find nothing. Most recently I had a colonoscopy to rule anything else out.  My doctor explained to me that she feels that I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, constipation, which I did not know existed.  I always thought IBS was only associated with diarrhea.  I hope that after my colonoscopy results come in that I am able to find relief. My largest obsticle with this is my age.  I am consistantly hearing "your too young for it to be this...."     It always helps to hear that I am not alone..   Thanks to all for your posts.
Posted 7/18/2011 5:31 PM (GMT 0)
I am a 60 year old woman who has had queasiness, extreme nausea and intermittent diahrrea for the past month. For the past 5 years, I have had pain, on and off, under my left ribs and in my back. They diagnosed three bulging disks but this pain seems tied to my stomach issues. I had colitis very badly in my 20s, but since that time, I have been a constant exerciser and feel great most of the time. My GI problems are back and worse than ever....The problem I am having right now is that this situation scares me to death---feel like I have cancer or something. I have had cat scans and MRIs over the past 5 years and nothing shows up. I am having anothe colonoscopy Thursday and am going to the Dr. today....Has anyone else had these symptoms? When I was in my 20s, I was really sick with IBS and inflammed colon for about a year....no meds helped and I was an emtional wreck---I went to a holoistic center and was told to juice cabbage and carrots everyday and drink the juice fresh...It healed me back then almost overnight. I need to go buy a juicer and try that again....it can't hurt you...and it really tastes good....has to be freshly juiced though....
Posted 7/18/2011 5:37 PM (GMT 0)

Grinch said...
I have been fighting IBS for at least ten years and have been on every med imaginable and none work for a long period of time.   Right now, I'm fighting nausea and have been trying Zofran which is a drug used to keep the nausea down in chemo patients.  It doesn't work either.  I live near a hospital and one of the chemo patients there was telling me the nurse told her to try graham crackers and coke (four or five squares of graham crackers with sips of coke--aybe 1/4 bottle).  It works! I know it sounds crazy but I was willing to try anything for the nausea.  Then, there's the sometimes constipation problem for which the gastro MD put me on MiraLax 2X a day and that almost killed me.  So, now, he's suggesting once a day which still gives me 2-3 bouts of diarrhea in the morning but at least I'm not constipated (for a while, anyway).  I do have one problem and wonder if anyone can help me.  My stools are pencil thin and have been for about a month.  I'm seeing my gastro man next week and we're going to talk about that.  I've had CT scans of my stomach, x-rays of my intestines, colonoscopy 2 years ago and everything just pointed to IBS but this is something new.  Can anyone help or do you have any suggestions????    Thanks--this forum is wonderful.   At least I don't feel like I'm battling this alone.  What do you tell your friends when you know you better now make any plans because IBS is so unpredictable.  I'm losing friends quickly because they just don't understand and I'm not going to try explaining because this whole thing is so gross.

nono  I have nausea now and diahrrea too and pain under my left ribs at times---how old are you?

Posted 7/20/2011 9:12 AM (GMT 0)
Over the years I have been suffering from bouts of nausea and bloating but since the beginning of this year my symptoms are getting very severe. I feel nauseas throughout the day and particularly nauseas after emptying my bowels. I get chronically bloated and have gagging/choking sensations. Gastro specialist confirms I do not have reflux but IBS. Following a low fodmap diet and banning milk products. Waiting for a H Pylori test but after reading all these posts it seems there isn't a diagnosis or solution to my problems. I live off peppermint tea and peppermint capsules but symptoms persist. Any help, ideas or suggestions as to what can help me?
Posted 7/20/2011 1:02 PM (GMT 0)

   i am so sorry you are going through this too----mine just started three weeks ago---I have been having tests this week---today I hear about my abdominal ultra sound---of course I am feeling scared because I can hardly eat anything---last night I ate a potato and a boiled egg and this morning have the diahrrea and constant nausea.....I will try forcing the graham crackers and coke---years ago in my twenties while in grad school I had a type of ulcerative colitis and felt terrible then too----but mine started with pain between my shoulder blades and in my left ribs----felt queasy for about three weeks but was still eating alot---then last Saturday this intense nausea set in which won't let up----something is definitely wrong----can you work with the nausea? I can't....

Posted 10/9/2011 7:39 PM (GMT 0)
Hi. I've been having all these problems for years! As soon as I got to the bathroom I feel like I have to puke during. Sometimes it comes on before and that's my cue that I'm gonna have diarrhea. I have terrible migraines, panic attacks, stress. For the past year I've been poop blood and lots of it, I'm scared bc colon cancer runs in my family. I'm 27 so all these things scare me very much. I went and saw a doctor (not my usual) and she said all of my experiences are normal!! So as much as I begged her to get me tested, she just wrote me off!! I'm so sick and fed up with my stomach problems I've practically stopped eating all together, I lost over 30lbs in 2months. It's so bad for me even a glass of water gives me diarrhea and puke! I'm not really sure what's going on or what to do when doctors are blowing me off?!
Posted 10/9/2011 8:41 PM (GMT 0)
I am so sorry you are going through this---I am much older than you but truly know how scary and miserable this is---i definitely would demand a doctor do some testing because you are miserable--
I had severe colitis in my 20s where I had blood many times---They did do a colonoscopy on me and then medicated me but the meds didn't help much-what helped me was taking aloe vera juice in the morning and juicing carrots and cabbage juice (mixed) twice a day---I had gone to a naturopath for guidance and it worked---of course I had to lessen my stress load too---But before you do anything, please get a doctor to diagnose you and then follow his/her instructions,,,good luck
Posted 10/13/2011 1:17 PM (GMT 0)
Hello, i am a junior in highschool and have been dealing with similar problems sense 5th grade. My symptoms usually are extreme gas, bloating, the lack of bowel movements for several days on end.  I tend to get extremely nauseas if I haven't had a bowel movement for awhile, or before Im going to have one.  I get bloated almost all the time with a lot of gas.  Sometimes I feel it is triggered by social situations but it always seems random.  I've had moments of diareah in the past few months. I've had to skip school because of that.  I have had that cold feeling, sweeting, and nausea every now and then for unknown reasons. I know that my symptoms go in relapse and remission, because over this summer I was completley fine, maybe cause I was at home most of the time.  But now that I've started school again I am begining to have problems and am thinking about doing online school.

I hate always feeling sick, my mom thinks its all in my head. but It is not normal.  This is the first year of school that I have had at least a month of being "normal".  I have kind of worked out a system of evoding my symptoms from coming up while I'm in school. I made it so I do my bowel movement before school then I am usually good for the school day.  But there are days like today were that doesn't work out, I decide to stay home, and I thank myself for that decicion 'cause I suddenley get diarhea.  But now I feel that system is not going to last long, and my problems are only going to get progressivley worse as the year goes on.

I have a feeling I could have IBS or Crohns disease, I have had no tests done, and don't plan to because I know their are no cures for these disease so what's the point for the uncomfortable doc. appointement. I eat mostly a good diet, i never eat fried foods, i eat whole grains, fruit veg., but i do eat a lot of candy.  Plz help, I just had a taste of how fun school could really be and now that glimour of hope is fadeing, I don't want to do online school.

 

Posted 10/13/2011 5:03 PM (GMT 0)
I really hope you do decide to see the doctor because then you will know if there is a physical problem or if your emotions are causing or exacerbating the problems---

Also, how about going to see a counselor who specializes in anxiety problems? It sounds like you may have an anxiety problem..My oldest son had the exact same thing as you do and he was senior class president after he got some tools from a counselor. This problem doesn't mean you are weak or crazy, just that you are sensitive and many gifts come from being sensitive. However, the emotions are very tied to the gut. I just want you to know that you DESERVE to be able to go to school comfortably and you can DEFINITELY heal it (quickly) if you get some help...A book I would suggest is "the anxiety and phobia workbook" by Edmund Bourne----It has an overview of these problems and step by step solutions----please know, you will be in my prayers and let me know how you are doing---

Posted 11/11/2011 6:18 PM (GMT 0)
can anyone help me please? here's my problem...

It comes and goes in waves but right before i have a bowel movement i get severe cramping and nausea and on some occasions vomiting. I have no idea what is going on? Anyone else experience similar symptoms?


Here is a bit of back story.
Back in October I went to the local ER 4 times. I experienced several varying symptoms such as sharp pain, lower back pain, diarrhea and vomiting, and upset stomach all at once. I thought i was dying. I had what they thought was a ruptured ovarian cycts, kidney stones, UTI, and a severe kidney infection...not sure about the diarrhea and vomiting. I had been on several different medications for all these problems and thought i was finally better except the symptoms i described up above^

Ive had CT w/o contrast, x-rays, ultrasounds, pelvic exams, rectal exams.....is there something gastro related that could be missed with these?

Someone help please!

-Kristin
Posted 2/22/2012 6:50 PM (GMT 0)
My Problems started last September, before then i was out every weekend walking hiking climbing, going out two three times a week cycling 100miles + and now i am almost house bound to ill to go walking desperate to get my life back, trying anything i can, but to no avail.

It all stared one night with a very bad sickness and diarrhoea attack which lasted for 7 days, a week of absolute hell, i went to the doctors, and was told ooh its just a virus you will be fine in a day or two and sent me off home.

a few days later i had back stomach acid and went back to the doctors, they gave me some gastro resistant tablets Omeprazol thanks but they did nothing.

A few days after this i was very ill again for 24-48 hours, it then passed i did not eat much for the rest of the week, i then felt better had a good meal something spaghetti bolognaise, 3 hours later very ill sickness and sickness and diarrhoea and stomach pains like you would not believe, i have broken bones and bad cuts etc but this was something else, this cycle repeated it self for several weeks each week going to the doctors, the symptoms ranged form the crazy attacks of sickness and diarrhoea, to feeling nausea dizzy mostly when i needed the loo and generally unwell all day every day.

The doctors kept giving me stuff every time i went to see them
here is something for the dizziness, here is something for the feeling sick, here is something for the nausea etc and this soon racked of to over £100 in prescriptions with none of them doing a single thing to make me feel any better.

Eventually i decided the only way to get help was to go private so i paid £190 to see a consultant that was in December and still i am ill every day, I have had the scope up the bum, and the mri, and heard nothing from them.

I now live off chicken, chicken soup, bread, crisp (plain), plain dry biscuit's, the odd banana now and then and ice cream all in small amounts.

I try not to eat anything after 6pm. I had a spoon full of mince when cooking for the rest of the family the other day which knocked me for six i felt really ill for a the entire evening and went to bed at 8pm. The next day i was fine so now i am to afraid to try to eat anything else well, have have been fro a a couple of months really. I also have to drink around 2 and half litres of water day and ensure i have a pint next to the bed as i wake up several times dying of thirst, with really bad headaches.

In a nut shell the doctors could not care less, i have paid national insurance for 20+ years and get treated like an idiot as if i am making the whole thing up and fobbed of with pills which i have to pay for which do nothing, currently i have boxes of:
Omeprazole
Plochlorperazine
Domperidone (not wine)
Buscopan
But generally take nurofen on a daily basis to help the pain and sickness. So what else can i do, i hear you all and sympathise with you, but we should not just accept this and demand better treatments and support.
Posted 2/24/2012 5:28 AM (GMT 0)
I am so sorry you have been so sick----I went through the exact same things if you look back at my posts--I literally was nauseated for six months, couldn't eat and KNEW something was not right...they did so many tests on me---i won't list them all as they are in earlier posts, but I just couldn't get better...Then in November last year, they ran a stomach emptying test on me and found I had very slow motility...The doctor prescribed Domperidone and after two doses, I could feel a difference---i could actually eat and not feel nauseous...However, the new doctor I saw right after that took me off the med and put me on a whole new protocol...I now take liquid erythromycin (2cc twice a day)

protonix (40 mg. each morning)

Zantac (150 mg before bed)

I also take a digestive enzyme after lunch, a probiotic and vitamin D...

I have gained back the 18 pounds I lost and I feel so much better..

I still have some left sided pain but am going to a physical therapist who has really helped me...

I know how hard it is---truly i do---but don't give up hope, you can start feeling better...So many people on this forum supported me and tried to help for which I am very grateful so let me know if I can help in any way....Blessings---Lillye

Posted 2/29/2012 5:28 AM (GMT 0)
Coldclimber,

Are you having pains in your upper right quadrant after eating, particularly something heavy or greasy such as spaghetti bolognase? Have you had an Ultra Sound of your abdomen to check for gallstones? And if not gallstones, a HIDA scan would detect if your gallbladder isn't functioning properly. I am so sorry for your pain and suffering, if it is gallbladder related, a low fat diet like you are currently eating is best. Hope you feel better soon. Take care, Ruth

Lillye,
I am glad to hear you have gained some of the weight back and are feeling better - what a relief. Glad you got a good doctor working with you and I hope continue to feel better! Take care, Ruth
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