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I know it is a weard question ..but has any one experienced some kind of movement down in the belly that looks like baby movement of a pregnant woman ??

i can actually see my belly rise up and down ..i feel some thing moving inside me ..did urine and blood tests many times all came back negative for pregnancy..

as i suffer from ibs ..i assume it could be gas or the colon moving !! but my tummy is growing resulting in a bloat that i have never had before ..is this just one of the ibs symptoms ??

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Lisahelen profile image
Lisahelen

Hi, could be wind taking a trip around your insides. Try peppermint after meals to help get rid of gas.

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notibs

I experienced exactly this long before I figured out what it was (and it wasn't another baby). I experienced feelings like a baby kicking in my belly. Years later I developed muscle fasciculations elsewhere on my body and realized that these things in my belly were twitches of deeper abdominal muscles. That is what they were for me anyways. I get muscle twitching after I eat sometimes. I am not sure why, but taking supplemental magnesium does help reduce it.

NOTIBS

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Eternity78 in reply to notibs

yes I also read during my research that dehydration and vitamins and minerals imbalance or deficiency can cause muscle spasms and / or involuntary muscle movement..but I wondered why only in my stomach ..exactly under my belly button !! still puzzled and still searching as my doctor said all tests are clear and may be it is just accumulated gas 😕 i'm still not convinced.

Thanks for sharing 🌸 ..i'll bring this subject to my doctor next visit .

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lyonstamerrr in reply to Eternity78

This just started happening to me 2days ago.. Right behind my belly button.. No way I'm pregnant.. It's freaky.. No IBS or anything.. Will def bring it up during my next visit..

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maisiemai

Endometriosis can make your stomach bloat like that and give IBS symptoms!

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Mspink

I get exactly the same thing, my tummy also constantly rumbles I haven't found anything to stop it I have ibs d, I take peppermint twice a day after trying every prebiotic I could find over he last 5 years with no difference. If you find anything that helps let me know!

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Eternity78 in reply to Mspink

yess sure ..if i find any thing that could help or relieve our symptoms I will definitely post it here ..I was shocked when I read that parasites living in the intestines can cause these movements !! they feed from the host ( which is me 😓) they move and even urinate inside the host 😷..hope this is not my case 😔

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villages2

Yes, also get this n im 65 n definately not pregnant !'

I have always assumed its just a bad build up of wind . I personally take Windsetlers which help break up the wind therefore reducing the bloated look n feeling.

If really bad will take this for a 24 hour period but for me i just take when a little wind.

Good luck.

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Eternity78 in reply to villages2

yeah ..maybe i need something to target the wind tour down in the gut ..it is not just the feeling ..it is seeing my belly move that actually freaks me out 🤔 is Windsetler a medicine or you mean a group of Meds that settle down the wind ?? is there a specific brand for this ??

Thanks for your help 🌹

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villages2 in reply to Eternity78

Yeah its real weird - To actually see your belly kinda ripple !!

You can buy Windsetlers from any chemist by this name.

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sandybeach12066

bloating is a big symptom in ibs

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BettyA

Do you think you could do two days just drinking liquids?? I have a friend who tells me that does the trick for her....Sometimes she just does one day. Anyway, good luck to you!

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Eternity78 in reply to BettyA

Hi Betty ! how are you now ? hope you're feeling better 🌷 ..well as i'm already starving my self inorder to decrease bathroom trips or as I call them Horrible (prison hostage) 😳 i'm afraid that drinking only liquids will worsen my diarrhea ..does your friend suffer from constipation or diarrhea or both ??

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BettyA in reply to Eternity78

Hi Eternity, From Diarrhea only, I believe. I can understand (completely!) why people are afraid to try certain things or new ways.

You might try Googling Benefits of a short liquid diet... and see if anything some articles say might be of some interest to you... I do know that one of the 'big' things a short few day liquid diet does is 'give your intestines a rest'... which can be very healing in itself. Anyway, good luck to you. Don't give up! Something will help you!! Take care now.

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Eternity78 in reply to BettyA

Thanxxx for the support 🌷🌷🌷

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6359

Yes. Apparently it's quite common, but don't know what causes it. Not only in ibs sufferers but also crohns.

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Hatfatter

I've had this for about 5 years now and it's not a natural phenomena. After extensive observation I have concluded that it is a or a number of spirits. The pressure is coming from outside the body. I now live next to an A-road and the undulating pressures or a knot inside my stomach are ever prevalent and they bring with them sounds of cars passing like rockets although I'm 3 stories up and have double glazing. The only solution I've found is to relax the stomach and after alot of fuss (ie. doors slamming, people shouting outside and incredible volumes of rocket cars as well as muscles all over the back of my body shuddering with incredible power. Also, my temples (on the sides of my head) are also experiencing rhythmic pressures. All these symptoms co-inside with a variety of ludicrous 'engine' type sounds which become extremely abstract the more you 'let go' in a response similar to a tick biting down when you try to pull it out. I'm not a hippy dippy type but in trying to understand how I've been vibrating for a number of years now I've settled on the conclusion that they are spirits. The pressures are alien (ie. not from my body and not in fact muscles spasming. The key is to not freak out no matter how much they 'the spirits' attempt to derail your relaxing with high energy shuddering and door slamming/argy bargy with people shouting outside, loud knocks in the walls and maybe hammering etc.

These are playful but dispassionate supernatural forces who can be forced out with will but after so many years I think my best option is to relax them out and I have had some success with this. They also climb inside pipes and continually break the central heating and hot water (hopefully an engineer tomorrow can fix this problem as it appears to be water pressure being affected).

They may also arrive at your door with random and unlikely reasons such as food delivery to wrong address or even police etc. You can recognize these 'mimics' by their lack of understanding of human interaction and appear childlike and a limited intelligence.

They have also taken to making the fridge emit loud bussing sounds followed more recently by a loud 'crack' noise. These noises very in intensity or location based on how much you have 'clung' to the physical discomfort, hence giving them a target with which to intensify the focus of their attacks.

I made the mistake of giving in to being vibrated in a squalid apartment I was given by the council after being made homeless by my landlord after I somehow got stuck in my flatmates room followed by a roller coaster ride of insane manhandling by 'police' and locked in various 'institutions' for a number of years, having to relinquish my freelance graphic design career to focus on the problem.

The key is to relax your stomach and muscles and not focus on negative thoughts as these are the intentions of these sprites creature things.

Do not worry though as your body and mind naturally combats these intrusions unless you focus on them and override the natural defense systems in your body.

Western medicine appears to have no answers to these problems so although a scientific person, I had to resort to admitting all these phenomena were supernatural in origin.

They are trying to stress you out in order to gain control of your mind and basically send you on silly fruitless wild goose chases to solve problems in your life they have caused. This to them is 'humor'.

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Pattyday in reply to Hatfatter

Sweetheart, I’m going to say this with compassion and good intention...what you’re suffering from there sounds awful, You need to go to your doctor asap and describe all of this. There is help for you.

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Madzz28011 in reply to Hatfatter

Hello are you there ? Do you remember y you ?

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Hatfatter

I may be mad but unless I've passed into another dimension (possible) this may be how the world has always been. If whacky beings start inhabiting your life and you start getting lingering looks from strangers wherever you go (I don't look weird it's not that) from people who are in some way strange seeming as in their behaviour does not seem quite right... Why are they standing on the spot fixated by their phone for hours on end? Why are they walking and swinging their arms wildly as they go or looking with their gaze fixed straight ahead with arched backs and looking so purposeful as to their purpose seemingly to be just to look purposeful, gliding along or swaggering about clumsily always with a seeming sense of intense self satisfaction.

PS. They may also be children or birds.

I had a hysterectomy ten years ago, don’t suffer IBS, do have fibromyalgia, and I keep getting the the fluttering and rolling movements in my tummy and see it sometimes, I suffer wind occasionally, I cannot move around much because of replacement hips and knees but I don’t get the funny feeling when I belch etc., I have been belching a lot just recently, it’s always to the right and I get an occasional sudden sharp pain in the area where my ovaries were! Any ideas

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Meldro

Hi. Wondering if you ever got a diagnosis.....im going through the same thing.

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Bungiecat

Yes I have had all those symptoms it is normal welcome to the world of IBS land hope you are better soon I am suffering with mine at the moment have you got buscopan if not use pain killers Gail

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Lulububs

I get this quite often it is generally wind or trapped wind it built up and trying to get out colon.

I take buscopan as soon as it starts and some peppermint capsules and generally as soon as it come out 💨💩, it goes .

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Maybebaby04

This, I'm sure, is NOT what anyone wants their abdomen movement to be but intestinal worms can cause movement that looks and feels (internally and externally) just like fetal movement. Many developed nation docs will say it is impossible if u haven't traveled outside of the country to a developing nation but they are WRONG! Parasites don't need passports...they live EVERYWHERE on our earth and are way easier to contract than anyone wants to believe. Truth is, most developed nation diets are prime time for parasites as they thrive on sugars, carbs, starches, etc...so basically they do best with a junk food eating host. Plus they spread in public swimming areas...esp theme parks that see visitors from around the world. U can get them touching a surface an infected person left microscopic eggs on (everyone should wash waste wash hands ESP after using restroom), from handling uncooked meats (ladies...we all do this weekly if not daily!), from gardening without gloves, WALKING BAREFOOT ON BEACH....or even barefoot in your own backyard.

These things often will not show on ultrasounds too...esp if doc isn't looking for them specifically. They will often be diagnosed as intestinal blockage/constipation or if nothing shows on xray/scan then as ibs or chrons. If u have ibs/chrons symptoms (some experts now think many theses diagnosises may actually suffer from parasitic infection of the gi tract). If u suffer from stools that alternate between very soft and very hard, tummy noises, excessive gas, strong sweet cravings, abdominal bloating/dissension(esp if to the point that u look AND feel 7 months pregnant), nearly constant indigestion, and most esp if you experience movement that is like fetal movement but test neg and either know or really don't think you are pregnant then either seek a doc that specializes in parasitic infections to be tested or treated or research a good colon cleanse program or kit. Then research how to make your body inhospitable to the critters in the future and adopt those lifestyle changes. Hope this helps someone and really hope docs around the world stop acting like these things stop at wealthy nation borders....they are ALL OVER EARTH AND CAN AFFECT ANYONE ANYWHERE! (And if a doc tells u otherwise laugh in there face because that's what many docs did to me for years after I researched my issues and requested to be tested since I live in the us of a and that's just unheard of....yeah, now have irreversible damage from severe unchecked infection of these and eventually had to be my own doc and research, have confidence in my personal diagnosis, and treat myself at home naturally....my docs...MANY of y docs AMD expensive tests didn't catch this n with me specifically asking...they were wrong! (After all, the proof is in the pudding u know and GROSSSSSS is I'm gonna say about my post colon cleanse pudding!!!! 😝😝😝)

Best of luck to anyone suffering and really hope this might help somebody somewhere fighting the same symptoms and medical battle I fought for nearly a decade before I had to diy it!)

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Fancy_Face in reply to Maybebaby04

Hey I'm siffering from this. Please help! I try everyday to not lose my mind. Sometimes I feel like im not here anymore when the flare ups start. It's like it takes over me. At first I had hpylori. After testing negative afters years. It still have same exact problems. When it first started it felt like something was eating me alive. Over the years it turned chronic. I went from not eating to eating everything it wants. Please help.

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Druzil in reply to Maybebaby04

I can’t remember when this started happening to me but it seems to intensify after eating. When I place my hands on my belly it feels like someone is rolling a few marbles lighly on the inside. I’ve tried talking antacids, and those seem to help somewhat. Is this merely aggressive digestion? I have to admit that I haven’t tried altering my diet and almost everything I drink contains either caffeine or alcohol so that may be a factor. I’m a retired Air Force veteran but this activity started recently.

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Water5 in reply to Maybebaby04

You sound JUST like me except that I still have these parasites and I’m SURE of it went to the dr and they prescribed all sorts of meds to treat the symptoms and not test for the parasites. I don’t just feel them anymore I SEE my stomach move, it’s like a rolling motion across my belly so I have no idea how many worms are feeding off of me 🤢🤢 I have a cleanse I am waiting to try but I’m nursing my daughter and read that burdock root (one of the ingredients) is not safe for nursing because it can be toxic to the liver. I’m also scared to completely cut out food and not be able to produce milk. I’m not able to get any real help from anywhere and don’t want to have to wait until I’m done nursing to get rid of these things. Any help?

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Krstvlkr1 in reply to Water5

Any luck? I’m also nursing and not pregnant and swear I have a worm or something. It’s now waking me up with movement. Its only in one spot. I’m calling dr tomorrow.

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Eternity78 in reply to Krstvlkr1

mine is without pain ..just like a ball moving under my skin in sea waves motion exactly the same place every time ..around my belly button ..i was told it's because i'm too skiny that i can see the intestines movement !! Not convinced at all ..it's just another way of saying ( we don't know ) !!

creepy when i see my belly going up and down and sometimes stops a little in the " up " position as if it has a spasm ..then relaxes again ..all involuntarily !! driving me nuts 😨

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Heather2463

I feel movement in hiatus area

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Squirrel83

I had this for years, started like a feeling then I could physically see my belly move, as though a baby was turning. Always in the same area, mine was behind and just to left and lower abdomen. I was told it was my ibs, change diet, constipation, diarrhea... Doctor never seemed concerned so I didn't either,.. To start.... Over almost 4 years this was worse. Doctors refused all tests to explore as bloods were always OK (except my iron levels, I was alwats quite anemic).... Then I was sick and pain from area in belly were movement was. I ended up with emergency surgery Xmas eve and discovered I've a rare jejeual adenocarcinoma. I'm not saying that it's the same for everyone but that feeling I had for years was a tumor slowing food getting through. The pain etc eventually that I felt was because it blocked the intestine and forced its way through the intestinal wall.

After speaking with my surgeon and oncologist I was told my doctor should have investigated more as my anemia never cleared up with medication and with the pain increase, visual of the movement, diet change, eventually the weight loss and sickness that normal ibs should have been dismissed and more tests done. I begged for a scan and they refused and even though I'm not out of the woods yet, that Xmas I almost died. I went into shock at hospital and was told I most likely would r gave been here if I'd waited another day. Always push for the tests that are available if you have concerns xx

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Alanna1

Yoga is good for this. Just lie on your back and rock side to side slowly. Then hug your legs to chest and rock side to side. Always stretch and move slowly not abruptly.

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