Irritable Bowel Syndrome Treatment

Question by : All sorts of health problems!!?
For the last 8 months I’ve been experiencing what I’ve been told to me ocular migraines. But I have these “ocular migraines” constantly. I do not get the migraine headache with it, just the aura – but its all day everyday. Fluorescent lighting makes it worse and its very irritating and distracting. My eyes are also very sensitive to lights, I went to a movie recently that had flashing lights in it and it was actually sort of painful for me, and I had to cover my eyes because of it. My eyes are also bloodshot right now, and have been like that for a few days, but I was using old contacts and I assumed that were just irritated or damaged from it, I put knew ones in about three days ago but the redness hasn’t gone away. My general practitioner gave me a prescription for migraine headache relief, but I don’t get the headaches so I haven’t used it.

Also, I have lower back pain and “trigger points” in my upper back. These trigger points my doctor says are what causes my tension headaches (not migraine). I was also recently diagnosed with Irritable Bowel syndrome (IBS). I also have tingling in my calves and feet.

The reason I mainly am asking about this is my class had a guest presenter today, he was a Tibetan Doctor talking about how they diagnose people. So at the end of class, being curious I asked him to check me for anything. They have ways of listening and feeling your pulse to figure out your illness. He asked me several questions – he figured out that I was having sleeping problems, menstrual problems, and back problems just from my pulse. He then told me that I had a fever of the liver and that it could be treated.

This is a lot of information, but I’m just a little freaked out at being told I have a problem with my liver, he told me not to drink, something that I do but not often. I was on birth control but am off it now b/c my doctors believed that these symptoms were being caused by the birth control. But nothing has changed.
If it wasn’t clear for people, I’m asking if anyone knows what could be wrong with me. I was hoping there would be a health professional that would be on here, or at least someone that may give me an idea. I plan on calling my doctor tomorrow about it.

And I was wondering if maybe someone knew something about Tibetan medicine? And maybe what a liver fever means?

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Answer by (¯`·._.·[M®§ Gî¿¿€ñ]·._.·´¯)
so what exactly is your question?

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Question by CrAzY_chik: Please Read! People with Gastrointestinal Problems. Chrones disease? IBS? IBD? Celiac Disease?
I am sixteen years old and have been suffering from chronic abdominal discomfort and other symptoms for more than four months. I have constant nausea ( I always feel like I am on the verge of vomiting but never do), abdominal pain ranging from a
mild irritated feeling to sharp cramps (not menstrual), gas, headaches, and debilitating fatigue.. I had an ultrasound and a ct scan a week ago and they both showed that I don’t have gallstones but I do have a large amount of (may be graphic-beware) compacted fecal matter (I warned you). However I have not been feeling constipated. In fact lately I have been having dihherea (occasionally bloody) 4-5 times a day.
I have Celiac disease and I was diagnosed about 4 months ago. And I know that it can take a while to heal but even the doctor doesnt know why its taking so long.
I just feel so sick all the time. Here’s my question: could it be Irritable Bowel Syndrome or Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Chrones or Ulcerative Colitis) or something els

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Answer by svengteach
Your doctor needs to determine the cause. There are a number of things it could be. I would not want to make an armchair diagnosis.

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Question by CrAzY_chik: People with gastrointestinal problems: What is wrong with me?
I am sixteen years old and have been suffering from chronic abdominal discomfort and other symptoms for more than four months. I have constant nausea ( I always feel like I am on the verge of vomiting but never do), abdominal pain ranging from a
mild irritated feeling to sharp cramps (not menstrual), gas, headaches, and debilitating fatigue.. I had an ultrasound and a ct scan a week ago and they both showed that I don’t have gallstones but I do have a large amount of (may be graphic-beware) compacted fecal matter (I warned you). However I have not been feeling constipated. In fact lately I have been having dihherea (occasionally bloody) 4-5 times a day.
I have Celiac disease and I was diagnosed about 4 months ago. And I know that it can take a while to heal but even the doctor doesnt know why its taking so long.
I just feel so sick all the time. Here’s my question: could it be Irritable Bowel Syndrome or Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Chrones or Ulcerative Colitis) or something el
I have a really healthy gluten free diet. I really think that there is something else besides the celiac disease because I am feeling progressively worse instead of better as the days go by.

Please tell me what you experienced with any of your conditions so I can have a better understanding of what I might be dealing with.
Really all the compaction has been cleared by the diherrea I think.

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Answer by Reginald T
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Question by First of the Gang to Die: Eating late at night/digestive problems – is it serious?
I am a 20 year old male with no previous history of digestive problems, although my mother has been plagued with them since she was a child. She is lactose intolerant and, I believe, suffers from Irritable Bowel Syndrome, but I’ve never had those issues.
As many teenagers and twenty-somethings do, I have an erratic sleep schedule. Typically I wake between noon and 3pm, depending on what time I went to bed the night before. I sleep 10 hours a night, give or take about 30 minutes, most every night without fail, and typically crawl into bed and am asleep by any time between 3 and 6 in the morning. This has been my pattern since graduating high school back in 2006.
Because I keep such strange hours, I tend to eat at strange times. I try and have 3 meals a day, even if it’s just a bowl of cereal. Usually I eat a decent-sized dinner with my family and then eat whatever I might find in the kitchen when I’m hungry after that.
A couple months ago I stopped eating after 10pm because I found that, suddenly, if I ate too late at night and went to sleep at my usual 3-6, I would wake up nauseas or with diarrhea or vomiting.
After a few weeks of success with eating NOTHING after 10pm, I tried eating some food with friends a couple times every week. They’d get home from work late and we’d each have a small chicken breast and some potatoes between 1 and 2am, and I’d wake up feeling fine – no problems whatsoever.
It seems, however, that if I eat anything with tomato sauce after midnight – spaghetti, pizza, etc. – that I wake up each time with the same symptoms of nausea, diarrhea, or vomiting, all accompanied by vile-tasting burps. I don’t have any idea what is causing this, and before I blow a sum of cash on going to see a doctor, I want some input on Y! Answers.
The gassy feelings in my stomach can be quite painful, even after a bowel movement, and last anywhere from 45 minutes to 5+ hours. Does anyone know why this is or what might be causing it? I NEVER had an issue like this until back in December of ‘08. It seems to have come on so fast.

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Answer by FitGuru
all of a sudden, without warning, your body can begin to reject things that it once accepted. it sounds like your body is suddenly being negatively effected by the acid in tomatoes.

your body will become adjusted to your schedule… be it rising with the sun or going to bed just before the sun rises, so i don’t think it’s your sleeping schedule.

you may want to try beano. you can buy this over the counter at wal-mart. and just because of it’s name, don’t assume the product is just for gas accompanied with beans. it’s for vegetables and grains as well.

or you may just want to give your body a break from tomato products for awhile.

my system was giving my issues for awhile due to my grain intake, and i eased up on them for awhile, and i have been eating them again with no negative effects.

it could just be that you will be fine eating tomato products in the early part of your days, and that you just need to chill out on them as you near bedtime.

hope this helps!

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Question by RocknRolla: Digestive System Problems – Help?
Hi, I am a 21 year old female. Since I was very young I have had digestive system problems. Whenever I eat my GI tract gets upset. Some foods upset it more but it’s not consistent and hard to keep track of. Almost every single bowel movement I have had since I was a little kid has been diarrhea. I urinate very little only two, maybe three times a day and my urine is always yellow because I lose so much water from diarrhea. Last year I had kidney stones. I get very fatigued easily.

I am sick of living with these symptoms so I recently saw a gastroenterologist and had a colonoscopy. My colon was fine and the biopsies came back fine. Blood tests came back fine except for a little “inflammation” whatever that means. The doctors said it was not irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, or celiac disease.

I have an appointment with the gastroenterologist soon and he is going to put me on a medication. Since IBS, celiac disease, and colon diseases have been ruled out I am wondering what else it could be.

I realize there are a million diseases of the digestive system but I was hoping somebody could narrow it down to just a few given my symptoms and the fact my colon is fine.

Thanks.
I was not abused or anything like that. I am stressed but I doubt this is stress linked because even as a little kid I always had diarrhea and during days/weeks/months when I’m not all that stressed I still have diarrhea.

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Answer by Pancake
Were you an abused child or had/have adult responsibilities? Sounds like you may have had a very stressful life. Nerves can affect you even at an early age and continue thru adulthood. I had an ulcer at age 18 – not normal for a teenager. Have you had the full GI/GB series of tests done?

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