IBS Sufferer….Colon tightening & lose stools.

[bloated12]

My problem is ….when i eat food average size meal i always bloat bad, i look pregnant mostly and my colon pulls tight under my bust , and it feels like i’m being strangled inside. It does subside eventually but is very uncomfortable and seems to be getting worse.

I take Mebervine for the cramps which work. Does anyone else get this?

[Luisa22]

I get something slightly like this but slightly different. About 4 or 5 hours after my dinner (but not breakfast which is a smaller amount of food)

I am fine and feel normal until about 4 - 5 hours after when it feels like my colon is getting stretched low down on the left. And sometimes there's a bit of abdominal distension so I can look about 3 months pregnant.

It's just a 'discomfort' and not any kind of pain. Passing some wind can help a tiny bit.

It goes away after about an hour and doesn't come back that evening.

Mine comes and goes too. I can get weeks without it, then it comes back for a few days. It's not related to any food I have eaten as I always eat from my usual safe foods list.

It can be related to getting loose stool the next morning but it isn't always. I am 69.

[bloated12 in reply to Luisa22]

Thanks for your reply …. the difference between us is i suffer every day … it’s become a bit of a nightmare.

[Luisa22 in reply to bloated12]

I wonder if eating smaller amounts at a time might help you? Of course, that doesn't get to the cause of it.

[bloated12 in reply to Luisa22]

Thanks for your reply.

Your right eating smaller amounts does help … but does not curb my hunger . My body still want normal size meal and feels ok when eating untill it starts to dinest it.

[b1b1b1 in reply to bloated12]

If you eat small meals, you need to have more of them - at least five or six - to get an equivalent amount of food.

[Luisa22]

Yes I understand. I like a proper dinner too, not eating small meals all day. I don't overeat at a meal, just have enough to eat.

[Hellytheelephant]

Yes,I also look pregnant if I eat a healthy portion size.and I I get that strangled feeling like I'm wearing a tight corset. I have lost a few kilos and am constantly hungry and having sugary tea to keep energy up.

[bloated12 in reply to Hellytheelephant]

Weight loss isn’t a condition of IBS nor is constant hungrer. I would visit my zHP

[bloated12 in reply to bloated12]

sorry GP

[Hellytheelephant in reply to bloated12]

I have an abdominal scan on Thursday plus a follow up with GP, so will discuss it then.

[bloated12 in reply to Hellytheelephant]

Good luck

[Coachmanbythesea]

Hi, I’ve been getting the same kind of symptoms as you for a while now. About a year ago I had a colonoscopy and diverticulosis was found. I bloated really badly with a lot of pain and discomfort but by trial and error I’ve found things that ease my symptoms-for now! I’m well aware that my body is changing all the time and at some point what helps me now may not in the future.

For bloating from trapped wind that won’t go anywhere I take Windeze pills. For me these work wonders. A couple of months ago quite by accident I found that live yogurt settles my whole system down and allows me to live a relatively ‘normal’ life. Again this works for me, it might not work for everyone but what I’ve worked out so far is that everything seems to be a process of trial and error to find what works for you.

Good luck with finding relief and believe me I share your pain!

[bloated12 in reply to Coachmanbythesea]

Thanks for your reply , contents noted. I take Mebeverine to stop the cramps but yet to try more thing to try to rid of the bloating

[Caddydriver]

i have the exact same symptoms. It driving me crazy. I've recently had an ultrasound on my pelvis and stomach to rule out any problems with my ovaries/organs, but everything was as it should. So waiting to go back to gp. No doubt further investigations. Mebeverine doesn't seem to do anything for me although peppermint capsules do help a little in getting rid of wind. But doesnt ease my bloating at all. I constantly feel like I have a bown up balloon on my stomach waiting to be popped

[Quando62]

I have been living with a squeezing around my colon and bloated that only klonopin 4 per days give me any relief

[edwangy in reply to Quando62]

how long have you been taking klonopin? Be careful, it's addictive and very hard to get off. I'm in a similar place, I have constant colon pain which keeps me awake at night n and nothing really helps except zopiclone which seems to relax my colon . The problem is that I have become tolerant to it so it only works now and again these days.

[Micro in reply to edwangy]

I’m Zopiclone tolerant.

My Doc gave me antihistamine - [ Promethazine hydrochloride 25 mg x 1]

This sends me to sleep But I only stay asleep if I take half a Zopiclone,at the same time, [ half a 7.5 mg pill.] It’s working over the past year. Good luck !

[edwangy in reply to Micro]

thanks for that , I've tried promethazine but it gives me terrible restless legs. I sometimes take half a 3.75mg of zopiclone and it works for a couple of hours , I wonder though if it is making my pain worse when it wares off as it affects your gaba receptors and downgrades them so you eventually don't produce enough of your own gaba ( which is a calming and relaxing chemical messenger produced in your nervous system) which can intensify the feeling of pain. It's a vicious circle, the pain gets worse so you need/take more zop or other benzos, tolerance hits then you have nothing.

[Micro in reply to edwangy]

hells bells, can't win can we