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Hey all!!So I finally managed to get myself signed on to some sort of IBS support group/forum after a while of searching...I'm a 24 year old female , living in Toronto , ON ( Canada) sorta caucasian? LOL (Hispanic father , Moroccan mother , raised here in ONT ) , normal bloodwork , lost/losing weight but still overweight , light smoker , no drugs , not big on the booze either. No family history of any GI disease (except my mom has acid reflux which she is on meds for still - I think! ) , however the rest of us get the odd bout of reflux from time. I do suffer from panic / anxiety on a fairly moderate level. I'm not currently taking antidepressants , as my episodes are too inconsistent at this point.This seemed to have creeped up in Jan '09 , when got this strange sensation the upper left side of my stomach and I was bloaty , gassy , getting these weird spasm sensations ( that seemed to radiate up my chest ) and I would get hungry , but take two bites of something and feel like I ate a whole meal
I went to my doctor , he gave me Motilium and that seemed to help. I had odd stomach pains as a child also , but they never returned until last year. It seems as now its developed to a point where the pain is usually lower left or right quad ... and sometimes I swear I think its my appendix , but it isn't. Abdominal / Pelvic Ultrasounds last July came back normal. I have another Abdominal Xray in 2 weeks.I went to my family doc , who insisted it was maybe a muscle, and then from that it was gas , and finally IBS. I would say I'm definitely more on the constipated side of things , however my bowel movements seem to constantly change in shape , colour , frequency....What the hell is going on here!!I seem to always be in some type of pain , I get randomly nauseous sometimes (usually night), the crampy/bloaty/sharp/stabby/achy feeling all the time is wearing me thin!
I went to a GI doc to get another opinion and he said it was definitely IBS - however he didn't request any bloodwork or tests , which I found strange. I then made another appointment with a GI doc to get yet a THIRD opinion and he is also absolutely sure based on my symptoms that its just IBS...Does anyone else get these strange pains that end up EVERYWHERE at different times , even to the point you can almost feel it in your ribs?!!!He has booked me for a colonoscopy / endoscopy which i am SCARED SH*TLESS ABOUT!! Its not til June but still!!! He's offered to run these tests to give me peace of mind and hope that knowing everything will come back Negative " I can learn to accept and deal with the fact that I have IBS and I have to manage it "..... So is anyone with me on this or am I going batsh*t crazy? .... I don't know how to deal with it . This sucks!!!!! =(*cries*PS - Does anyone else suffering this get hungry in the middle of the night even if they had dinner? .... Wtf!!! I think I'm losing my marbles guys lol : (