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Re: To D on IBS...From: andrea (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon Jun 18 03:11:25 2007
I agree with you about the endo-IBS thing. I don't know how they can diagnose IBS when you have endo symptoms, but I know my endo CAUSES my IBS because when im not approaching or on my period, I am fine and can eat anything. If I eat spicy food or anything with caffeine or have alcohol before my period - watch out! My stomach blows up like a balloon and my pain is 10 times worse. I always thought all my pain was coming from my uterus but I think half of it comes from my intestines behind my uterus. The anti-spasm pills help quite a bit. I feel so lucky now that I have somewhere to turn and talk to other women who are going through what I am. I am getting my first lap surgery in mid July or beg of August and will need all the encouragement I can get. Thanks for being here, D! At Sun, 17 Jun 2007, D wrote: > >IBS is Irritable Bowel Syndrome - it's a collection of symptoms that >doctors diagnose by excluding other causes. Here's a website that >explains better: >http://www.helpforibs.com > >>From the link: "IBS is characterized by its symptoms: lower abdominal >pain or discomfort, diarrhea, constipation (or alternating >diarrhea/constipation), gas, bloating, and nausea." > >and more: > >"The Rome II diagnostic criteria of Irritable Bowel Syndrome always >presumes the absence of a structural or biochemical explanation for the >symptoms and is made only by a physician. > >Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be diagnosed based on at least 12 weeks >(which need not be consecutive) in the preceding 12 months, of abdominal >discomfort or pain that has two out of three of these features: > >1. Relieved with defecation; and/or >2. Onset associated with a change in frequency of stool; and/or >3. Onset associated with a change in form (appearance) of stool." > >Many women who have endo do have trouble with their bowels - painful >bowel movements, constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating, and nausea are >all fairly common, but none of that means that we have IBS. In fact, >endo should be ruled out before IBS is diagnosed - because a diagnosis >of endometriosis actually rules out IBS. If you have endo and you have >bowel problems, it is probably the endo that is causing them. I hope >this makes sense, it seems like some doctors make a dual diagnosis of >endo with IBS which confuses me because from everything I've read having >endo makes the IBS diagnosis impossible! > >>From the same site: > >"In essence, the diagnosis of IBS is a process of exclusion. There is >no medical test available that will be positive for IBS; instead, your >doctor will test you for all other illnesses that can mimic IBS >symptoms, and if those tests are negative, and if your symptoms fit the >Rome II Guidelines for Diagnosis, you'll then be diagnosed with IBS. In >particular, it's important that the following diseases are excluded >before you accept a diagnosis of IBS: > >Colon and carcinoid cancer >Inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis) >Bowel obstructions >Diverticulosis / Diverticulitis >Gallstones >Food allergies >Celiac (a genetic, autoimmune disorder resulting in gluten intolerance) >Bacterial infections >Intestinal parasites >Endometriosis >Ovarian cancer" > >At Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Divine wrote: >> >>Thank you Andrea. >> >>They told me awhile backa that I had Splastic Colon and that I needed to >>take fiber con which made my craps worse. >> >>What my I ask is IBS and what does it do the the Endo isssue? >> >>Again thank you for all youre help. >> >>At Sun, 17 Jun 2007, andrea wrote: >>> >>>It sounds like you have a combination of endo pain and Irritable Bowel >>>Syndrome. Most women with endo have both. I do! It sucks, I know. I >>>either get really constipated or have diarhea the day my period starts >>>and am super bloated. I just started taking a pill my aunt told me >>>about to treat the IBS symptoms called Bentyl, an anti-spazmotic pill. >>>It has worked really well and has kept the bloating down too. So, >>>hopefully this advice can you help with that. I never got any relief >>>from the BC pill and think all the estrogen in them made my endo much >>>worse over the years. That was all the doctors solutions for 17 years, >>>just stay on the damn pill. I've been off the pill for 4 years and feel >>>better than I've ever felt, but still need laparscopy to remove all of >>>my endo. (I still get 2-3 days of severe pain and have to take >>>Vicodin.) Good luck to you and I hope you find some relief and help you >>>need! Everyone on this forum is very supportive and so nice. >>> >>>At Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Divine wrote: >>>> >>>>First off, let me apologize if this is to long, but I am in some serious >>>>need of help. >>>> >>>>I started my cycle when I was 12 and it stop about a year later. It >>>>then came back 6 months later. When I was a freshman in high school I >>>>started to hemorrhage as I was walking down the hall (most embarrassing >>>>thing ever happen to me). I bleed seriously for 4 years straight. While >>>>bleeding the doctors put me on every birth control out there, as well as >>>>Estrogen; now remember I was about 14 at the time. Nothing stopped me >>>>from bleeding. The doctor wanted me to get pregnant because that would >>>>have healed me inside; my mother was not going have that. At the same >>>>time I was diagnosed with Diabetes and PCOS (tell this day I am not even >>>>sure what it is), but I was told recently that they could not find any >>>>cyst. Now I am not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing. >>>> >>>>After my graduation, my cycles started to act normal for a little while, >>>>but then they started to disappear for about 6 months and then come >>>>back. During that time, I did not have a lot of pain just very long 3 – >>>>4 weeks heavy cycles. About 6 years ago, I started dating my now >>>>husband whom gave me a VD (long story, but some antibiotics got rid of >>>>it). Ok, let me back up a minute before I met him I was engaged to my >>>>high school sweet heart for 3 years and we wanted kids but it seemed >>>>that we were not getting pregnant. We would have sex everyday of the >>>>month and it was not happening. >>>> >>>>During the past 6 years, it seems that the pain that I am having is >>>>getting severe. I have researched everything that could be making the >>>>pain and I came up with Endometriosis. Here is little of my symptoms >>>>and you be the judge: 1-2 weeks before my cycle I start spotting and the >>>>cramps have me in the floor crying; during that time it takes all of me >>>>not to literally beat my butt because I cant have a bowel movement; I >>>>get bloated; if I hold my bladder for more than a minute the cramps >>>>become so severe that I am again in he floor crying. Please tell me >>>>what this is. >>>> >>>>Now I am 32, I am trying to get pregnant, and it is not working. They >>>>have put me on Clomid which did not have me ovulate a day. However, >>>>what is so funny, I do not even want my husband to touch me but 1 day >>>>out the whole month, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSE TO HAVE A BABY AND WE ARE >>>>TOGETHER ONCE A MONTH. >>>> >>>>I went to an Endocrinologist/ Reproductive specialist and told him all >>>>of this and he wants me to loose 30 pounds (I am a heavy weight) before >>>>he will go in and do a laparoscopy. I cannot live with pain anymore. >>>>Although I want children, the pain is becoming unbearable. Three weeks >>>>out of the month, I am suffering and I don’t think I should have too. >>>> >>>>Now to make things worst, my family is has CANCER, and from things that >>>>I have read that, it can cause cancer. My grandmother passed over 20 >>>>years ago from Ovarian Cancer and now I am afraid that I might have that >>>>as well. >>>> >>>>What next? >>>> >>>>Ladies please forgive me for rambling on but I have not been able to >>>>talk to my husband or anyone else. Therefore, please if you have any >>>>advice as to what I need to do next please let me know. God Bless you >>>>all. >>>> >>>>I do go to the Reproductive doctor next Friday. I need to know what to >>>>tell him and how I can become out of pain. He put me on some type of >>>>narcotic, but I hate that druggy feeling and refuse to take the meds. >>>>Its not that I refuse I can’t be doped up at my job. >>>> >>>>Please advice… >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Desperately in PAIN >>>> >>-- >>Desperately in PAIN >> >-- >Find an endo specialist in the ERC's EndoDocs group: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndoDocs/ > >Try an excellent endo support group: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/erc/ > >Info on pain management: >http://www.painfoundation.org/ >
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