Sorry it took me so long to post the results. Three days after my scoping, my Mom was admitted to the hospital and had to have emergency surgery to remove her gall bladder before it exploded! Then my...
Well yesterday was the BIG day and I got through it fine! The doctor said I did really well and that everything looks pretty good on the inside. He said my colonoscopy looked perfectly healthy, but...
Went to the store and stocked up on ginger ale, vitamin water, veggie broth and jell-o. I've got a stack of old towels at the ready and I've covered the couch - *just in case*. I got my super-comfy...
Well, today is the big day. Or maybe tomorrow is the BIG day and today is the awful, day-before-the-Big-day day. In a few minutes I'm going out to buy the stuff so I can do my very first bowel prep...
Thanks Raea. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to handle beans at the moment. Not in any sort of quantity anyway. My problem seems to be linked directly to gastroparesis and incomplete emptying....
Sophie, I had something similar to what you describe. I wouldn't be able to really poo for three or four days, with just these little rabbit-pellet poops, then I'd get what my family and I call "The...
It's been over a week now on the Reglan and I'm happy to report I'm doing MUCH better!! HOORAY!! I've been able to eat again without feeling like I'm going to throw up or die. It even took away the...
Apparently there's some kind of indicator in the blood that can help diagnose it. The way he explained it to me was like this: If the "normal" levels (of whatever it was he said - I can't remember)...
"This makes sense." That's what the doctor told me yesterday. My symptoms make sense, and he thinks he knows what's wrong with me AND how to go about treating it!!! I can't begin to describe the...
Meeting with the new doctor today at 3pm. I'm a nervous wreck!! Barely slept last night, and I can't stop thinking about all the horrible tests I know they're going to order on me. I'm trying SO hard...
Oh yeah, definitely terrified of puking!! You are NOT alone on that one!! I've done the Camp-Out In The Bathroom, too. My Mom, who also has IBS, also does it and we take turns keeping each other...
Any of you guys get a sensation like you have a lump in your throat? But it doesn't go away? I've had this feeling for WEEKS and it's only getting worse, not better. Sometimes it'll feel like there's...
Yeah, hormones are a bugger for IBS. My period always made it worse (part of why I'm now trying the constant birth control to stop my periods - I'll let y'all know how that goes). My mom is going...
YES!!! The heat KILLS me!! It only takes a little while and if I can't cool off, I'm all lower abdominal cramps, pain, and queasy. I usually try to cool myself off ASAP when this happens by putting...
Ooooh... I'm a little forum-hopper now! LOL So I'm allergic to nature, pretty much. Dust, pollen, mold, mildew...if you can breathe it in, I'm allergic to it. I'm also allergic to nuts (mild) and...
Wow... When you say water is pouring out of your mouth, do you mean you're throwing up? Or that you're salivating way too much? I sometimes get the ridiculous amounts of salivation when I have a...
To everyone: Thank you all so much for the support and commiseration. I'm so glad I found this forum and SO glad I found it WHEN I found it. Clearly I have a gaurdian angel and they're looking out...
I just found out the other night that someone I've known since I was a child thinks my IBS symptoms are all in my head and that I do it to myself (along with some other, really unpleasant assumptions...
OH man... I so feel your pain with the being unable to be intimate. In my opinion, it's the things like THAT that make it unbearable. It's bad enough that you're in pain all the time, but when it...
Yeah, I get the back-and-forth between D and C thing too. Sometimes the C will go on for three or four days, accompanied by the MOST painful bloating that makes my stomach swell up two pants...
After poking around these forums and reading a bunch of really helpful stuff...and realizing my doctor never told me HALF of it... I've decided I need a new doctor. Like, I said to my doctor "I have...
Kim, I WAS on antibiotics - really, really horrible and nasty ones at that! I had thought that might have contributed to it as well, but I didn't know what to do about it. I can somewhat stomach...
Quick intro: I'm 27, female, living in the North-eastern portion of the US. I first started getting IBS-type symptoms when I was 21, but I've had tummy problems since I was a baby. Both my Mom and...