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Does IBS cause anal symptoms?

Has IBS caused anal symptoms for you? Like prickling sensation or Tightness spasms? Or when you're stressed? Random feeling of tightness or uncomfortable...

Has IBS caused anal symptoms for you? Like prickling sensation or Tightness spas...

•2 years ago

Probiotics 👍 or 👎?

How has your experience been with probiotics and IBS? Have they helped you or made things worse?

How has your experience been with probiotics and IBS? Have they helped you or m...

•2 years ago

IBS or visceral hypersensitivity or Brain gut connection

Does your IBS cause a wide range of symptoms? From gasses moving in the stomach, to weird anal sensation, to maybe indigestion to alternating between good...

Does your IBS cause a wide range of symptoms? From gasses moving in the stomach...

•2 years ago

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Bowel movement changes

Does anyone feel their stool appearance/size/ varies all the time? Different consistency, sometimes it's more mushy then the next day it's log shaped. Have...

Does anyone feel their stool appearance/size/ varies all the time? Different con...

•2 years ago

Feel gasses move upon waking

Do you feel gasses move as soon as you wake up , in bed? I feel that's when I feel them, Soo many when I'm just waking up

Do you feel gasses move as soon as you wake up , in bed? I feel that's when I fe...

•2 years ago

Gut microbiome ruined.

Does anyone have any advice please.I recently had to have a week's course of Amoxicillin for a UTI. It's completely trashed my microbiome. I have been living...

Does anyone have any advice please.I recently had to have a week's course of Amo...

•2 years ago

Mebeverine

Hi….a nurse practitioner prescribed Mebeverine when I had a flare up of IBS a week or so ago. I take 3 a day of 135g and the pains have stopped. Do I now stop...

Hi….a nurse practitioner prescribed Mebeverine when I had a flare up of IBS a we...

•2 years ago

Stomach gnawing sensation

Have you experienced stomach gnawing sensation? Feels like you are hungry but it happens even after eating

Have you experienced stomach gnawing sensation? Feels like you are hungry but it...

•2 years ago

Alverine or mebeverine

Please can anyone tell me from past experience which they prefer or works best Alverine or mebeverine?

Please can anyone tell me from past experience which they prefer or works best A...

•2 years ago

Fibre in the diet

I have probably written about this before, but I am really unsure where to go. So it appears that lots of things play up with my stomach particularly fibre....

I have probably written about this before, but I am really unsure where to go. ...

•2 years ago

soft, sticky stool which is hard to pass - any advice?

I feel embarrassed describing my poop but am at the end of my rope with my gut issues. I’ve had IBS for 25 years but the last 5 years have been non-stop,...

I feel embarrassed describing my poop but am at the end of my rope with my gut i...

•2 years ago

Stopped taking Linaclotide (Constella/Linzess) for chronic (idiopathic) constipation, a new medicine for me to try.

So I finally had my consult ('second opinion') in Leuven (Belgium) at the gastroenterology unit of the university hospital, after I did see a specialist at the...

So I finally had my consult ('second opinion') in Leuven (Belgium) at the gastro...

•2 years ago

FDGuard...any Functional Dyspepsia

patients take this? Helps? Any recommendation before or after meals or how you take it for maximum effect. Thanks in advance. New to this drug.

patients take this? Helps? Any recommendation before or after meals or how you ...

•2 years ago

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Fear of pooing during surgery

Hello I am due to have open heart surgery in a few weeks. I have IBS with diarrhoea and urgency. Am so frightened of soiling myself while I can't get up to the...

Hello I am due to have open heart surgery in a few weeks. I have IBS with diarrh...

•2 years ago

bungi61

I don't know how 2 put this but here goes anyway has anyone had 2 pick poop out of your bum? as I had 2 as it got stuck and that was the only way I could get...

I don't know how 2 put this but here goes anyway has anyone had 2 pick poop out ...

•2 years ago

Gastritis

I had a gastroscopy this afternoon after experiencing stomach and back pain, for over 2 years the consultant said I had gastritis and took biopsies for a...

I had a gastroscopy this afternoon after experiencing stomach and back pain, for...

•2 years ago

Piles

Last year I was diagnosed with a anal fissure and piles I was given suppositories and laxatives and it all cleared up.Had a issue a few months ago when I...

Last year I was diagnosed with a anal fissure and piles I was given suppositorie...

•2 years ago

Slow colonic transit

I have been diagnosed with slow colonic transit after having all the usual bowel investigations. I have been suffering suffering from chronic constipation for...

I have been diagnosed with slow colonic transit after having all the usual bowel...

•2 years ago

AGA - American College of Gastroenterology Clinical Practice Guideline: Pharmacological Management of Chronic Idiopathic Constipation - 2023

https://journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext/2023/06000/american_gastroenterological_association_american.13.aspx Abstract INTRODUCTION: Chronic idiopathic...

https://journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext/2023/06000/american_gastroenterological_as...

•2 years ago

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Weird stuff with my leg!

In the morning after I get up, come downstairs, get a hot drink, my tummy starts to tell me a bowel movement will be needed soon. But worse than that, my left...

In the morning after I get up, come downstairs, get a hot drink, my tummy starts...

•2 years ago

Anus/rectum symptoms

Does anyone have anus/rectal symptoms associated with their IBS? How would you describe it?

Does anyone have anus/rectal symptoms associated with their IBS? How would you d...

•2 years ago

Stomach pain- do you experience this?

Do you experience stomach pain with your IBS? If so, how would you describe it? Does it come and go? Please share your experience. This is a new symptom...

Do you experience stomach pain with your IBS? If so, how would you describe it?...

•2 years ago

bungi61

Well today I have had my COVID/FLU jabs ( seasonal ) so no more of the of them now until May/ June 2024 thank goodness I had 2 take all sorts of Med's 2 try...

Well today I have had my COVID/FLU jabs ( seasonal ) so no more of the of them n...

•2 years ago

Endoscope..functional dyspepsia and Prilosec

Finally had endoscope which shows not much of anything that one takes Prilosec for....been taking for well over a year....I think it is actually causing my...

Finally had endoscope which shows not much of anything that one takes Prilosec f...

•2 years ago

Does IBS come in bouts?

I thought IBS was supposed to come in bouts. I’ve had it for 9 weeks now day and night, is this normal?

I thought IBS was supposed to come in bouts. I’ve had it for 9 weeks now day and...

•2 years ago

Stomach pain

Where do you feel your IBS associated abdominal pain ? Is it in the pit of your stomach where you feel it? How would you describe how it feels? Thank you for...

Where do you feel your IBS associated abdominal pain ? Is it in the pit of your ...

•2 years ago

bungi61

Is anyone like me on this forum really P****D of with this IBS/Divert Disease always spoiling our lives never knowing from 1 day 2 the next what the thing is...

Is anyone like me on this forum really P****D of with this IBS/Divert Disease al...

•2 years ago

Waking up a sleeping colon

I have had this happen several times. Yesterday I had a call from a person who was going to stop by in 2 hours with their grandchild. Of course I was...

I have had this happen several times. Yesterday I had a call from a person who...

•2 years ago

Foam/bubbles in stool- have you had this?

Have you seen at random times, sporadic like a little cluster of foam or bubbles along with your bowel movement? After you have your bowel movement in the loo...

Have you seen at random times, sporadic like a little cluster of foam or bubbles...

•2 years ago

blood test showed high ALT levels

Hi so recently had a blood test done everything was fine apart from my liver my ALT level 18 months ago was 26 now it’s 106 🤷‍♀️. My doctor has booked me in...

Hi so recently had a blood test done everything was fine apart from my liver my ...

•2 years ago

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