Does anybody else experience extreme fatigue and joint pain with their IBS?
I feel that my stomach has settled and am not really suffering from constipation or diarrhea however I'm feeling very tired, lethargic with terrible joint pain the last couple of days. It seems to be some sort of arthritis more than IBS to me.
Recently I have been having joint pain with my IBS-C flare ups - when I don’t go to the loo for days everything feels inflamed and I experience neck, jaw, knee and strangely toe joint pain. I also get lots of headaches in a flare.
My GP insists this isn’t something she’d expect with IBS but I’m definitely not imagining it! All my tests are negative for Crohns (associated with joint pain) so far so she doesn’t know what’s causing it and doesn’t seem keen to investigate further 🤷🏻♀️
I always get fatigue when my tummy is bad. It occurs directly after eating and i could fall asleep. It puts me off food a lot.I find it is worse after breakfast so I do my housework before eating anything.
I never really feel like eating until midday anyway so it doesn't bother me too much.
When my tummy feels horrible I get anxious and I think this causes me to tense up resulting in pain in various places.
Perhaps your body is toxic I e not getting rid of waste for few days. This can make the body feel awful
Well this is what I’m thinking - it definitely feels that way. I just feel like I’m being poisoned from the inside - dramatic I know but that’s what it feels like!
Please look up fibromyalgia. IBS is one of many symptoms of it. The two often go hand in hand. One effecting the other. You are describing some of the symptoms. You don't necessarily have them all.
It may also be worth looking into TMJD (temporomandibular joint disorder). I was diagnosed with IBS, without having either constipation or diarrhoea but with digestive problems accompanied by fatigue, and pains/discomfort here and there. Later after I cleared up the IBS symptoms the GP thought it was probably fibromyalgia, but I'm pretty confident it's problems with my connective tissue all round my body, resulting from dental injuries, that are the root cause of all this for me. The doctors seem to have difficulty relating to the idea that the distortions in connective tissue caused by TMJD could percolate farther than the jaw and shoulder area, but I have slightly hypermobile joints and I think that's what's happening.
Nightime pain
Leg pain
What does IBS pain feel like? 
Real Chronic Pain
