IBS and leg pain? - Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Message Board

chriscwharris · 03-31-2003, 11:09 AM

I've been having IBS related problems for a few months according to my gp. Today I have extreme backache in my lower/mid left side of back along with pain in my left leg that goes all the way from the hip down.

I've also got pain in the groin on the left side? Can pressure in the stomach or intestine press on nerves that cause this pain? It's very unfcomfortable and keeps me awake.

Thanks

luvbug · 03-31-2003, 12:54 PM

I have ulcerative colitis and sometimes when my left side hurts , I feel kind of a pain sensation down my left leg.I ONLY have it when I have the pain in my lower left side. I asked my doctor about this and she didn't know WHAT I was talking about...(in other words, she looked at me like I was crazy).

I believe you though, and maybe if you tell YOUR doctor, they won't look at you like you're from another planet! LOL

lno · 03-31-2003, 04:01 PM

I can't believe I'm reading this. I posted a long time ago re

ain in my back & didn't get much response. I, too, talked w/my GP re: pain in my back, buttock that radiated down my leg. He did not know what it was from??? I had a CT, MRI, showing nothing. The only thing he could tell me was somehow it could be related to my IBS. Well, after a couple of months it went away, only to return again w/my most recent episode of IBS. It's on my left side, awakens me around 4 or 5, get up, go the bathroom & believe it or not I have a bm, the pain improves. I'm figuring it's a full colon causing pressure on a nerve. I read up on siatic & it could be that nerve is sensative to pressure. So, in answer to your question, I do have the same thing associated w/IBS. It would not seem out of line w/IBS. All of us seem to have differing symptoms w/our IBS & this I figure is part of mine. I take Ibuprophen or asprin which seems to help. I'm sorry you are having this problem, however, somewhat releaved as someone else is presenting w/similar symptoms. Do you have diarrhea? I do & I'm sure the back/leg pain has something to do with this. Keep me posted on how you are doing. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

lno · 03-31-2003, 04:06 PM

I don't know how that face got in there w/the tongue out. Must have hit a key I didn't know about.!!!

At any rate, GOD BLESS US ALL.

broncosfan · 03-31-2003, 06:04 PM

I also get this when the lower left portion of my bowel is acting up. The sciatic nerve is in that region, and I would guess that's probably the cause.