Does anyone ever feel sick with their IBS? Everything I've read always says that pain and discomfort should go away after a bowel movement. With me, the pain or cramps and stomachache goes away but the after affect lasts forever and it is hard to eat. Appetite goes away, rumbling and queasiness or extreme hunger sets in and nothing sounds good or settles very well. My IBS used to be textbook, but now it's like I described above. Is anyone else like this? I feel like I'm all alone because no one else I know has lasting effects from a stomachache.

Stop worrying! :wave:

Remember that IBS messes with your insides, it alters the timing of your digestion, nothing is running in synch. Your bowels are probably blocked up, would it make sense to begin eating normally again?

I have exactly what you refer too. After an attack, ive been ill & resting for 12-18 hours; my body tells me that it must surely need some food by now, and I am hungry... but if I do, I ve come to expect discomfort while my stomach digests it.

Its a catch-22, you have to eat at some point, but youre tummy is in the wars. I usually eat small meals (avoid over eating if possible), and avoid IBS triggers too... For instance I learnt that banana was bad for me on an empty stomach (but not as noticable normally..)

Thanks. Like I said, I just wanted to know if it's normal to feel so yucky and sick for days after one bad stomachache. I have been constipated or at least having a hard time going for most of the winter and the other night I ate Wendy's. Maybe that was it. I hadn't had fast food probably since last summer. I'm sure my stomach was pretty shocked. I usually have to eat conservatively. I figured I could handle a plain hamburger and baked potato w/ cheese. I also only had about 6 bites of a frosty with a lactaid. Oh well, one more thing to add to the list I guess. This morning I am still pretty rumbly and empty. Crampy too. I am trying hard to eat normally, yet bland to fill things back up. I do not want to take an immodium and haven't yet, but I have to take my kids to a skating party tonight, so I might have to take one, but I'll only take half of one. They make me kind of tired and out of it. Thanks again!

Hi luvmyboys,

I'm in the same situation as you right now. I often don't feel like eating and it often doesn't settle very well: But I'm not sure it was after a stomach ache - it just seems that it is almost always the case for weeks now.

I believe that IBS is caused by MKULTRA radar - I can prove it for myself - just maybe not for every one else. Well, here's a long story if you're interested in a good read.

Three days ago they started attacking me with what felt like heart pain - in the middle of the night - my heart would seemingly stop pumping (or die down to very faint) and I would start to suffocate. I had pain in my armpit and chest and down my left arm and I could barely feel a pulse. Anywho, when I discovered what they were doing I was suddenly deadset at finding a visual technique to stop them from putting me in pain. Well its been two days now since I had to really concentrate and I found a couple of different methods to stop it. Well for two days now I've been completely free of any pain - I thought things were getting back to normal again - Now it seems they've broken through my defenses ever so slightly and I'm back to having a near no-appetite situation again.

I guess everyone else must be feeling pretty awful in the past couple of days, judging by the sudden increase in messages. I wish I had a place where I could teach people what I know - I'm almost 100% sure that people would be able to in fact avoid/reduce IBS to tolerable levels on their own.

Some day we will all find that heaven - I hope no one quits before then.

Regards, Raju.

Yep. Everyone knows what you mean, luv! When you get a really bad bout you can experience all kinds of symptoms and you won't want to eat. Eat light foods and try to relax. When I used have horrible episodes the pain wouldn't go away for hours, sometimes days. If it is this way for you, ask your doctor for meds for cramping. Specifically the ones you place under your tongue. They will make you sleepy, though. But I'd rather sleep than be in pain!

I have some of those meds - hyosciamine I think, but I take xanax too and sometimes just that works. I'm sure mine are expired. So, now I went from the gutaches with loose stoolsa and nausea back to the upper pop me with a pin bloating and belching and awful smelling colon gas and some constipation. I can't win. I would like to try some metamucil, but I'm always so queasy I'm even afraid to to that. I just wish now that I knew where the bad smelling gas comes from or why it has to smell so bad. It bothers me - no offense to the guys on this board, but it reminds me of when a guy lets one rip and they're proud of it. Obviously they don't feel as bad as I do when they have it.

The meds make it smell so bad, or it just does anyway?

I think that smell and IBS go hand in hand. Especially during an attack, the smell is horrifying. I assume all to do with food not being digested, rotting, causing tummy bloating and gas build-up...though its only a guess.

Does anyone ever feel sick with their IBS? Everything I've read always says that pain and discomfort should go away after a bowel movement. With me, the pain or cramps and stomachache goes away but the after affect lasts forever and it is hard to eat. Appetite goes away, rumbling and queasiness or extreme hunger sets in and nothing sounds good or settles very well. My IBS used to be textbook, but now it's like I described above. Is anyone else like this? I feel like I'm all alone because no one else I know has lasting effects from a stomachache.
Yes, nausea is very much a part of IBS. Because the colon is irritable, it is sending confused signals to your brain as to whether or not to eat. There is a serotonin chemical that can get unbalanced and create all kinds of screwed up messages. The one I hate is when I get the ravenous appetite only to throw up what ever it was that seemed so necessary. The other side of the coin is the diarrhea that follows when I eat what I have craved. It is really a very frustrating disorder.!

adso,
I'm sure it's not the meds causing the smell. I agree with you on the food digesting part because it usually only smells when I'm not feeling well and having a hard time with nausea and burping. Therefore I'm sure gas builds up.

Marimac
I hate to even type this, but I have never thrown up from my IBS knock on wood, but I will get the super hungry feeling and eat and then get extremely bloated, can't burp and then nausea sets in. I don't usually get diarrhea anymore because I am on a medicine called carafate to help with the excess bile in my stomach which was causing my diarrhea. I do get it occasionally, but maybe only once every few months. Mostly it acts up in the spring and fall.