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[Hicking]

Hi guys , i wonder if any of you experience nerve pain with your IBS, like when you feel your bowels moving around and doing the crazy stuff that they do , is there any kind of other pain you feel.

I seem to be feeling niggles all over and im getting myself proper anxious.

I have also at the moment got a lovely bout of costochoridritis, which is really not helping .

Thanks in advance

[xjrs]

Absolutely. I have been diagnosed with IBS-C and visceral hypersensitivity, which is intestinal nerve pain. I'd experience it as a crawling pain sensation from 2am onwards when the colon wakes up to prepare for a bowel movement in the morning. It is caused by a loss of neurons in pain control centres of the brain and the first line treatment is low dose 10mg Amitriptyline. I couldn't tolerate this and I am on Linaclotide for IBS-C with nerve pain. It reduced the pain considerably, but not 100%. I have recently also started on Alflorex probiotic which has been studied for IBS and a free 2 months is available on subscribing to theibsnetwork.org. I can't quite believe it, but alongside the Linaclotide, at the moment I am pain free! In terms of feeling niggles all over, I can imagine your other condition could be exacerbating things? Perhaps worth a chat with your GP about your symptoms.

[Hicking in reply to xjrs]

Thanks for your reply.

I am waiting for an appointment with gastro but that will prob take months.

Dont like all these weird niggles, feel like electric shocks,just gets me real anxious.

[xjrs in reply to Hicking]

This is worth a trip to the GP. Are you on any medication that you might be experiencing side effects from?

[Hicking in reply to xjrs]

Only mebeverine, which i have been for years, buscopan,and omperazole

[xjrs in reply to Hicking]

I couldn't get on with buscopan myself (it gave me palpitations), though lots of others seem to use it. Defo worth a visit to the GP - to discuss your symptoms and the meds especially if either the buscopan or omperazole are new for you.

[Hicking in reply to xjrs]

Buscopan been taking for years, omperazole a few weeks

[Daisy2191]

Yes most of the time. Any feeling put me on edge. At night sometimes I just lie there as it's all moving around. I feel like mine is over sensitive like I feel every part of digestion instead of just feeling the need to go.

[Maureen1958 in reply to Daisy2191]

I feel like this too!