Yesterday when googling "rectal tension" I came across mention of a book called "A Headache in the Pelvis", and actually spoke (twice!) on the phone with the research MD who wrote it. Basically, I...
yeah i called, they didn't do an STD test, so i suppose i should get one at the same time, it doesn't really make sense; as i said i've been with the same partner for a long time, and i don't have...
they've taken my urine twice at two seperate places, and blood, so i think that's all been considered. I've had the same partner for 2 years now, as well...
i don't even get to talk to the neurologist until 12/02, and I may not get an MRI, my PCP doesn't seem to think there's a neural cause to this. I have to ask, is it common to have any urinary...
well, the fact that it's not chronic for you gives me hope that i won't be totally fixated on this the rest of my life!...
does it bother you chronically, or are you largely unaware of it unless you think about it? ..and when you do have movements, are they ever normal? I've basically normalized mine, but it doesn't seem...
...even though I've been going pretty consistantly and passing good stools. Is there any advice for this? Bentyl doesn't seem to do much except make my C worse....
if this helps, I'm on a lunch break, and my boss tossed this on my desk this morning thinking it might help me, it's from a woman's health magazine: "a recent study found that people with IBS who...
I'm at a loss, and doctors cannot tell me much until I see a neurologist, so since there are so many IBS'ers here, I wanted to see if anyone has ever experienced anything like what I'm going through....
i'm male; if this was only 1 or 2 times a month i could deal with it; not sure if i;m going to be able to handle it if it proves to be chronic :(...
I've heard complex carbs are hard to break down and milk is bad, is why I stayed away from cereal and whole wheat bread. I don't think I'm gluten intolerant, though, so that should be okay. Besides...
I sort of switch from C to D, but I'm trying to get regular, because my doc thinks what I need is to have one regular movement a day, and get a pelvic MRI to look at my discs. The diet I'm thinking...
given my history with back pain, and that I'm 6'2" and 140lbs, i wouldn't be surprised if my lower discs are a little messed up. I'm built like a tall bird. Part of me has been wondering if a disc...
well i saw my regular doc from years of old today he's put me on miralax, to try to get me to have 1 regular movement a day, and says if that doesn't resolve the tenesmus, we can look at other...
at this point my only symptom is a dull pain/discomfort the feels like it's under my rectum/spine base i'm not convinced this is IBS, but i am convicned that it's maddening...
more reading makes me think this isn't a hemmorhoid :-/ It's so bizarre, though, it's sort of just a very minor pain during the day, and then by 11 or 11:30 PM it's very severe, makes it hard to...
i think i may in fact have a hemmerhoid! to me this is good news, because it's common, easy to treat, good prognosis, and may in fact be responsible for more of my discomfort than I've realized! I...
I'm so sorry lil. I've been going through a much mor eminor version of the same thing, if that helps at all , because out of my whole family, my father has developed a drinking problem, my sister has...
so what would you advice be, beyond baths and not straing needlessly? i take it this is not a standard symptom of IBS? and could I have a hemmerhoid without extra pain during stool / rectal exam?...
As you know (and thanks for the support!) I'm battling a really first-time bout of IBS, and it sucks However, when I have all my other symptoms under control, I get a dull pain in my rectum. Is it...
hmm, I got this from quackwatch, which seems to go around debunking medical hooey: "Around the turn of the twentieth century many physicians accepted the concept of autointoxication, but it was...
so, are men less likely to get IBS, or less likely to want to talk about their poop? <--boy...
jKeriamon, I basically agree with you, and think the notion of fecal matter building up for years is a little ludicrous - a lot of these places mention that "fiber abraisivly removes recent build up,...
well, i may feel a little better psychologically I was a real mess this morning, because I couldn't move anything at all when I first woke up (which is a time I can usually move SOMETHING)....
I've been on Klonopin 5 years, although I had been gradually scaling it back around the time this all startred. i suppose that's a possable link, though since this all started i've been back up to my...
*sigh* okay, i'm just in a lot of discomfort and things like http://www.oxypowder.com/oxypowder/oxypowder-works.php look so promising..... on the one hand, the medical communicaty seems to have...
I've seen a lot of sites implying that there can be years worth of buildup in the colon, some have profucts to sell...
couldn't get prune juice on the way in, so I'm drinking cranberry juice. I'll get some prune juice at lunch. my pattern seems to be, feel slightly okay in the morning, progressive more gummed up all...
also, if i still feel so "gummed up" inside tomorrow, would it be a bad idea to drink some milk of magnesia to make whatever's in me drop through? Is this likely to make me feel worse?...
my aunt sent me some kuzu starch and advised that i mix 1 tbsp with a cup of apple juice, heat to a thick consistantcy, let cool and drink, 2x a day. going to start that today. I feel very...
I'm very very scared now because I spoke to another male roughly my age in my area who has the exact same symptoms with a similar onset date, but a few months earlier. He echoed the sentiment that...
yeah, symptoms are still there, just as bad. I WANT to see a GI person, not a frickin shrink. I know all about mental health, I've seen enough shrinks over the years. The person I got sent to told me...
well, i took 10mg of bentyl about an hour ago, and i still feel all bottled up. I keep feeling like I'm right at the edge of what I can tolerate without running down the road yelling "I AM INSANE...
okay, my main problem is that the symptom is so constant that I can't think of anything else. I'm going to try increasing fiber (soluble and non) and taking this at 1/2 dose first, god, I pray this...
do you have the tenesmus symptom? what meds do you take to help?...
so rectal spasms could cause this feeling of tension, even though I don't feel like there's any muscles spasming? How long should I have to take it before I feel relief? I filled the bottle today,...
I saw my primary care doc today He wants a series of fecal occult tests, but his feeling is that I don't have an inflammatory disease, and with 'clean' CTs and XRays, that pretty much just leaves...
well, i might feel slightly better today; it's so crazy because i might feel better enough that if i wasn't obsessed witht he sensation from my rear, my i wouldn't even notice it! But it's all I can...
I honestly don't know if I can get through 5 or whatever weeks of this, but, we'll see. It's like the pain / discomfort in my rectum is so discomforting that I literally can't think of anything else....
thanks for the useful info; I started an eating and pooping diary that goes back to last thursday, which is as far as I can get with good accuracy. I'm a 24 year old male, and did have the CT which...
well, sorry to be so scatological, but maybe this is significant. an enema brought up nothing except for a very, very small amount of very small movements, and then a minute later, mucus. A self...
I will definately post what I find out. Diverticulosis has been ruled out, via a rectal CT series. I had a very small movement this morning that was rather unpleasant and if anything, I feel worse...
[tr ][td class=msgThread2 vAlign=top height="100%"]I'm reposting this here because I was told by the ulcerative colitis subforum that this does not sound like UC. I should preface this by saying...