Rorie
04-01-2004, 06:32 PM
I have been diagnosed with IBS-C. At about the same time I started having symptoms of that, I started noticing my pulse would race after I ate certain meals (usually fatty foods) and sometimes I would get chest pain, which I associate with gas build-up in my chest area. I also have some back pain sometimes, which can be quite uncomfortable...but I don't know if IBS can cause back trouble....what do you think?
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6th_sense
04-01-2004, 10:09 PM
Hi Rorie,
IBS can change your heart beat - in my opinion - I think that it is also possible for the heart to stop pumping too - at least I think that's what I've been suffering through for the past couple of days. I can feel a strong pain in my chest - radiating through my left arm and it causes me some suffocating feeling.
In your case - unless you break out in a sweat, have pains radiating down your left arm and suffer from dizziness/suffocation - I doubt it is heart pain. Usually, in this case it is just an acid problem - Acid problems can cause you to feel pain in your back - even sometimes like nerves in your back are being pulled.
Nevertheless, I have an uncle who once suffered from heart pain and he realized that it may be more than that - Well he rushed to the hospital and they diagnosed him as having heart disease and having had a minor heart attack - mostly from 20 years of not doing any exercise whatsoever. He couldn't walk three blocks up the street without panting for breath - and he wasn't fat - just never took up any exercise, because he never thought he could get a heart attack. The most exercise he had for 20 years was picking up the occasional computer dropping it in the trunk of his car and taking it out for work purposes.
If you have stabbing pains in the V of your chest - it could be gas. However, if you suffer from both that and pain in the right side of your rib cage - it could be your gall bladder acting up - I used to suffer from that prior to developing full blown IBS. It does usually occur right after a heavy/fatty meal. (Bile - realeased by the gall bladder is supposed to help digest fat/ smoothen the digestion process as a laxative). I suffered from constipation all the time - so I actually managed to save myself by taking quarter of bile salts pills to help augment what the gall bladder was doing. It gave me a lot of relief. (Don't do this yourself though - bile salts can produce diarrhea, if you use it improperly).
Well, I hope you are able to find a way around your trouble: One suggestion that Harry usually makes for gas is to try and take active yogourt/acidophilus caps - if you aren't already doing that.
Cheers, Raju.
IBS can change your heart beat - in my opinion - I think that it is also possible for the heart to stop pumping too - at least I think that's what I've been suffering through for the past couple of days. I can feel a strong pain in my chest - radiating through my left arm and it causes me some suffocating feeling.
In your case - unless you break out in a sweat, have pains radiating down your left arm and suffer from dizziness/suffocation - I doubt it is heart pain. Usually, in this case it is just an acid problem - Acid problems can cause you to feel pain in your back - even sometimes like nerves in your back are being pulled.
Nevertheless, I have an uncle who once suffered from heart pain and he realized that it may be more than that - Well he rushed to the hospital and they diagnosed him as having heart disease and having had a minor heart attack - mostly from 20 years of not doing any exercise whatsoever. He couldn't walk three blocks up the street without panting for breath - and he wasn't fat - just never took up any exercise, because he never thought he could get a heart attack. The most exercise he had for 20 years was picking up the occasional computer dropping it in the trunk of his car and taking it out for work purposes.
If you have stabbing pains in the V of your chest - it could be gas. However, if you suffer from both that and pain in the right side of your rib cage - it could be your gall bladder acting up - I used to suffer from that prior to developing full blown IBS. It does usually occur right after a heavy/fatty meal. (Bile - realeased by the gall bladder is supposed to help digest fat/ smoothen the digestion process as a laxative). I suffered from constipation all the time - so I actually managed to save myself by taking quarter of bile salts pills to help augment what the gall bladder was doing. It gave me a lot of relief. (Don't do this yourself though - bile salts can produce diarrhea, if you use it improperly).
Well, I hope you are able to find a way around your trouble: One suggestion that Harry usually makes for gas is to try and take active yogourt/acidophilus caps - if you aren't already doing that.
Cheers, Raju.
worrywort
04-02-2004, 04:12 PM
I agree with this! I think it can do all of these things!!!! So you can take capsuls? I don't eat much yogurt.
Wish you all well :angel:
Carly
25 female
diagnosed with ibs,gastritis when I was 23
currently on an antidepresant for anxiety and antibiotic for bacteria in my tummie and I have always had stomach problems since age 7.
Wish you all well :angel:
Carly
25 female
diagnosed with ibs,gastritis when I was 23
currently on an antidepresant for anxiety and antibiotic for bacteria in my tummie and I have always had stomach problems since age 7.