Flare up

[LEENOL48]

I seem to be going through an IBS Flare up don’t know why been eating relatively safe no diarrhoea just bloated like I’m pregnant and feeling sick is this normal

[Maureen1958]

Yes, I feel sick a lot of the time, lots of us get nausea. You don't say if you are male or female, but if you're female you could be pregnant! 😃

[Luisa22]

I can get flares out of the blue too, even if I have been eating foods that normally suit me well. For me anyway, that's the way my IBS goes. It has a mind of its own. Tonight my lower belly is bloated again suddenly and I have no idea why. I hadn't had bloating for about 3 weeks. I can't even blame any foods I've eaten, as because of too-soft bm's recently I have been eating really safe foods every day.

Sometimes I wake up with a sinking feeling that feels almost like nausea. But in my case I think it's more emotional, like a kind of mild anxiety. When I get up and get going I can snap out of it. But otherwise nausea doesn't normally bother me.

But sometimes I can get a vague queasiness which comes and goes for a couple of days then doesn't come back for months. It's so vague I often wonder if I'm imagining it....but no. I know I;m not. Just a physical sense of unease in the background.