Irritable Bowel Syndrome Treatment

Question by : Feeling as though I’m getting full quicker, nausea after meals, constipation. What could it be?
I’m 17, and a male. I usually feel sick in the morning, mainly after or during breakfast, and it usually goes away a while before lunch around 12:30. Also, lately, I’ve been feeling full more easily than usual after a meal, and sometimes I feel a little sick too, but I don’t throw up. A few days ago I did end up throwing up, but it was after working hard all day and I think I just may have been dehydrated, or food poisoning from a burger I had eaten 5-6 hours earlier. I’m very unsure and really would appreciate some help with this. Also I have been a little constipated now and then too. My BM seems to be a little more irregular than usual. Sometimes a little more than normal, usually not less. Could it be stress? Irritable Bowel Syndrome? I don’t know, and I’m worried what it could be. Please help! Also: My one uncle has chrome’s disease too, but I don’t know if that means somehow it could be hereditary and I got it too or something. As you can tell I have a lot of symptoms, but no answers for what the source is.
First off, thanks to everyone for responding so quickly.

To Barcode:
I almost never eat fast food, I was returning from a camp I visited to work at and on my way home stopped at a restaurant for a quick lunch.
I don’t smoke, drink, or do drugs, although I used to more than over a year ago now, but I have completely stopped doing all of those things.
I do try to eat healthy every day and I lift weights every day (chest and back (day one), arms and abs (day two)), play tennis almost every other, and run occasionally.
As for water, I’ve been trying to drink more, but still find myself lacking some days.
And I could use more fruits, but get a decent amount of vegetables.
I do use computer occasionally, for school work mostly, but video games are fairly rare occasion for me.
I get 8 or more hours of sleep almost every night. Stress may be a problem though.

To Pacey:
Thanks, I’ll try and get it checked out.

To Eddie:
Thanks, I’ll ask my Doctor and google Chron’s Disease.

Once again,

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Answer by Barcode
You’re stuffing your face with too much junk food, fast food garbage & sugary sweet sodas.
No smoking – no beer/ale – no booze – no drugs.
Eat healthy, get plenty of fresh air, sunshine & exercise, exercise, exercise.
Drink LOTS OF WATER to help keep the traffic moving.
Snack on plenty of RAW fruit & veggies to put fiber into your system.
Get off the computer & stop playing video games & get moving.
Get 8 hours sleep each nite. Avoid stress.

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Question by glassroseheart: How should I go about getting a diagnosis for my intermittent unexplained pain?
I have been having pain in random areas (usually upper arms and legs, usually near joints, neck and back, usually along my spine, various areas on my stomach and ribs, and scalp) for years, but the pain and frequency has recently increased. I get pain in a random place about four times a day, but it can happen more or less frequently depending on stress. There are no bruises or other visible signs of injury in the areas I have pain. I tend to ignore minor pain because of a prior health problem that caused pain in my chest (with a physical cause that could not be easily treated, that has since mostly disappeared), so the actual frequency of pain may be higher than I remember. When someone presses (not too hard, but not a light touch) on certain spots on my body, I have pretty intense pain on that point in my muscle. There are other spots that, when pressed, cause pain in other areas, usually along the same muscle or near the point that is pressed. I get muscle spasms in my back and neck pretty a few times a week. I have also had insomnia for as long as I can remember. Although I am tired almost all the time, I have a really hard time falling asleep. I have also been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, anxiety, and temperamental joint syndrome. I also have allergies, but I really doubt they’re related.

Because the pain has gotten worse over the past few weeks (probably due to stress), I am looking for a solution, or at least a diagnosis. As a result of the research I have done of my symptoms, I suspect that it is fibromyalgia, but I am open to other possibilities. I know that Rheumatologists usually diagnose and treat fibromyalgia and other similar illnesses, but I’m not sure if I should try to go to a specialist immediately or if I should go to my Internist first. What can I do to up my chances of being diagnosed quickly and correctly?
I eat healthy and have a balanced diet. I really like vegetables, especially those high in magnesium and calcium and I eat meat and fish (B12). I am outside without sunscreen for around 30 min per day without sunscreen (less in summer when sun is stronger). I really doubt I have a vitamin D, B12, Calcium, or Magnesium deficiency.

I’m more concerned with getting a diagnosis at the moment than treating blindly, so my main question is about how to get diagnosed. I also do not believe that alternative medicine can help in all cases. Neither can traditional medicine, but at least traditional medicine is scientifically proven more frequently. Treatment without diagnosis is unlikely to work.
The sleep problems can’t have been caused by muscle pain because I have had sleep problems for my whole life. The most prominent random pain I get is in my legs. My muscles are tense in my neck and back, but I can’t see why that would give me pain in my lower leg, which is the pain I’ve been dealing with today. No OTC pain medicine helps much with the pain (even in blocking it), but I remember having slightly less pain when I was on an SSRI for anxiety. I needed to stop taking 2 different ones due to side effects.
I forgot to mention that I also have restless leg syndrome. Also, the pain feels a little like restless leg syndrome at times (more constantly annoying than agonizing), but feels like stabbing, throbbing, or cramping pain at other times.
Douglas, I tried to do those stretches, but pressing in some of the areas you suggest causes the localized pain I mentioned in the original question.
I thought that my count of the number of times I felt random pain was low, so I started recording it. My count was very low. The number of times per day I feel pain is more like 50-100, but it often comes and goes in a few different areas or lasts only 30 seconds, so I’ve just been ignoring most instances of pain.

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Answer by ƦєdAиgєℓ
Firstly check your vitamin D, calcium and vitamin B12 levels as a deficiency in all of these cause all your symptoms. Calcium deficiency – muscle cramps, prone to allergies, vitamin D deficiency – bone and joint pain (misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia) and fatigue, and vitamin B12 deficiency (stress eats away at B12 levels) – IBS, anxiety, migranes, insomina/fatigue, bone pain.

Calcium:
http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Ca-De/Calcium.html

Vitamin D:
http://jeffreydach.com/2007/06/10/vitamin-d-deficiency–by-jeffrey-dach-md.aspx

Vitamin B12:
http://www.drdach.com/B12_Jeffrey_Dach_drdach.html

¾ of the world is vitamin D deficient…i would check it out just in case.

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Question by : Isn’t it the gastroenterologist’s job to detect hernia instead of me visiting the ER and getting surgery?
In december 2008, i started experiencing lots of abdominal pains and various stomach discomfort symptoms. Gastro-enterologist in january 2009 did colonoscopy and it was normal. He then diagnosed me with Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

The ibs medications never worked for 5 months and i continued suffering. Then last week, I started experiencing extremely sharp stomach pains and i rushed to ER at 3 am. A cat scan was done on my stomach and it was revealed i had hernias.

The hernia was twisting the small intestine, choking its blood supply and obstructing bowel movements. The surgeons immediately performed a hernia surgey on me and i was hospitalized for a week. The surgeon said that had this hernia gone untreated, the entire small intestine would have failed.

Yet the gastroenterologist kept saying IBS only. So is this medical malpractice on gastroentrologist part? He put my entire small intestine at risk for organ failure. And it ended up with a rough ER visit.

Per the surgeon, the hernia was caused by scars of the appendix surgery i had in 1989.

The surgeon also said that to diagnose with IBS, the gastro-enterologist conducts all kinds of tests and if the tests are normal and nothing is found, IBS diagnosis is given.

However the gastro-enterologist clearly did not do all the tests as he failed to get a stomach cat scan. He only did colonoscopy and said IBS. The hernia was not even in the colon, but near the small intestine (which can’t be seen in colonoscopy).

I kept paying thousands of dollars to gastroenterologist even when i had no health insurance only because my abdominal pains were so severe. For all this hard earned money i paid, shouldn’t it have been at least his obligation to give correct diagnosis?
now i expect huge medical bills from ER for the hernia surgery and i’m unemployed and financially struggling. I will file bankruptcy.
if gastroentrologist said i have hernia, i could have gotten health insurance before the surgery. But the sudden ER visit gave me no time whatsoever, because i trusted the gastroentrologist that I have IBS
jamie: my university offers student health insurance and pre-existing conditions are covered. The only requirement is that student must be enrolled in 6 credits at least. The reason I did not take university health insurance is because i already graduated last year.

But if i knew i had hernia and would need surgery, i would have enrolled in graduate school and taken health insurance.

Also late detection of hernia posed very serious threat to small intestine. The hernia choked blood supply to SI, twisted SI and obstructed bowel movements. The SI was put at big risk for organ failure due to late discovery. I am lucky SI didn’t fail.
second gastroenterologist said IBS too.

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Answer by Jamie M
I agree that the gastroenterologist should have run more tests to rule out anything serious, but you should have pursued the issue when you weren’t getting any better. If he blew you off, you could have seen another doctor who would run more thorough tests to find out what was wrong. It’s not the gastroenterologist’s fault that you did not have health insurance, and keep in mind, you would have had huge medical bills if he did run more tests to diagnose the hernia. If the hernia would have been caught before you ended up in the ER, you still would have had to have surgery to repair it. If you were even thinking about getting insurance, you should have done it before something happened. If you would have waited for the hernia diagnosis, insurance companies may have looked at it as a pre-existing condition and may not have covered it anyway.

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Question by fragile: why am i getting IBS flare up ?
I have had irritable bowel syndrome since i hit puberty. It used to be really bad when I was younger, but got better over the years once i started exercising more and eating more fiber.

I had my IBS under control for a very long time and everything seemed ‘normal’ for almost a year, now all of a sudden I am starting to get a flare up again. I have not changed my diet at all, although I have not been doing as much exercise as I used to.

What could be causing the flare up?

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Answer by 8D
Well have you been under more stress and pressure lately because that can usually stir things up a bit. Also your diet may be lacking a certain nutrient or something of that sort. What are you exactly feeling though a combination of things like bloating diarreaha?

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Question by rpsfu_83: I am a 23 year old,suffering with chronic bad breath for as long back as I can remember.It has been getting?
progressively worse.I have tried probiotics,chlorophyll,parsley, detox products,oxygenating products from Dr.Katz, changing my diet to exclude meats, dairy.I had also been to a fresh breath clinic where they took samples from my teeth and tongue,which concluded that I have”very high numbers of gram positive cocci and bacilli.As well very very high numbers of gram-negative cocci and bacilli,a moderate amount of vibrios”.They then prescribed antibiotic mouthwashes and antimicrobial rinses like chlorohexadine that did not work (and did not seem to worsen the problem either.I find that the breath has been getting worse with age in general).I did not measure very high on the halimeter, which tests for VSCs.The odour is not sulphuric, but rather is of a putrid nature.I do not suffer from post-nasal drip. I have no cavaties,but I build up tartar very quickly, and was told that tartar builds up in basic environment,as does odor causing bacteria.My oral hygeine is very good.any solutions/help?

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Answer by brunette_chick01
um..talk to your dentist

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