Bloating after bowl movement?

[Edgar77]

No bowel movement for 3 days. I usually go twice a day, but feeling good. Last two days been a lot and feeling very bloated now. This doesn't make sense to me.???

[Luisa22]

I don't know what causes it but I had that happen to me once. I hadn't been 3 days between bowel movements, only one day (I have IBS D mainly but occasionally cconstipation, though that's quite rare,

So I went the morning after that day, and very well, and it was soft but not diarrhea. But my tummy felt kind of 'uneasy' difficult to describe, and my lower abdomen was swollen up a bit though it did go away. I can't remember how long after

[Frasina]

IBS can fluctuate if this is what you have from not going sometimes to going a lot for a few days with no set pattern. You need to monitor the situation and if you are still going a lot, then cut down temporarily on foods that are high fibre (basically, eating more white or beige coloured foods). See if this helps; if it continues past a week then I'd see the GP.

[Fergie53 in reply to Frasina]

Yep this happens to me regularly, I can go 3 or 4 times in a day then get a bit constipated, I think it’s called ‘Mixed ibs’

[Bobb1e]

hi Edgar,

Agree with Frasina & the beige diet. Simple foods . I don’t know if you can take bananas or oranges? But try a banana mashed with juice of a fresh orange. Might help you ‘go’

[Fergie53 in reply to Bobb1e]

Bananas best

[Edgar77 in reply to Fergie53]

Everything I eat is gluten free as I am a coeliac. I have porridge every morning a banana lunchtime with a high fibre sandwich. Dinner is usually meat and at least 2veg. An orange for pudding or a treat of strawberry. But still have wind?, maybe its too much fibre or the pro biotic.