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Posted 6/7/2020 7:01 PM (GMT -5)
Have anyone here experienced this before?I posted yesterday about this but I feel like my bowels are not working at all.My stomach is just quiet.I am eating but not a lot.i also have no appetite and dry mouth .I am eating with no nausea or pain.When you are constipated you feel the urge to go and it just want come out but I have no urge or sensation to go at all .I am really worried I just drunk some senna tea a minute ago.I have sent a message to my llmd on the patient .I am scared to go to the er because of covid19.I hope the Lyme haven’t destroyed my bowels.
Posted 6/7/2020 7:52 PM (GMT -5)
I don't know where you live but I have been to a ER in an area with a fair number of covid patients. It was seperated for covid and non covid patients. I felt comfortable. If you need to go to an ER go.
Posted 6/8/2020 8:06 PM (GMT -5)
Yes. It started in 2015. I had sudden onset of IBS-C on the heels of an eyelid infection treated with antibiotics. I had already been having increased constipation, but after that round of abx, my bowels started to shutdown.

I manage the constipation with Natural Calm magnesium powder taken every night.

For a very long time, I had no feelings in my intestines whatsoever and felt nothing until the movements were coming out. Super weird not to feel any peristalsis. Early on, I did have gastritis and liver or gallbladder pain but felt nothing below that.

It has gotten better since treating with antifungals (Nystatin and Fluconazole) and taking TUDCA supplements. My bowels are still not normal, though. I have not had necessary testing to determine the cause. Had colonoscopy, xray, and CT scan in 2015 and told they couldn’t find anything therefore it was IBS.
Posted 6/9/2020 10:53 AM (GMT -5)
FM - I have been back and forth with the bowel issue and can relate to what WBF posted. A few years ago, I was really struggling with constipation, so I went to get it checked. After using a scope, the doctor pretty much blew it off and said I had something (can't remember name), but I could tell he was just putting a name to nothing he could see.

I'll have periods of absolutely no problems, then, like recently, there is more of a struggle to go. It's not as bad as before, but it is uncomfortable. I believe anxiety can also lead to making it worse. Not sure how anxious you are and, by no means, am I attributing it all to anxiety. But I can tell things get worse when I go through severe anxiety or depression.

You don't have stomach pain?
Posted 9/24/2021 9:24 AM (GMT -5)
So I’ve gotten this lack of urgency, etc. it coincided with a diagnosis of a mild hiatal hernia by endoscopy. I’m still investigating, but hiatal hernias are associated with IBS.
Right now though, I think that the hernia is the problem in that it reduces the patency of the GI tract and it’s power. But what do I know?
Posted 9/24/2021 10:07 AM (GMT -5)
Tedo,

Hi! Have you been tested for H. Pylori? If not, I would insist on being tested.

I have IBS and no hernia.
Posted 9/24/2021 10:22 AM (GMT -5)
the latest research in this area seems to support a very strong link between IBS and SIBO and the underlying mechanism causing SIBO seems to be disturbance of the normal movement of the gastric tract due to damage to the nerves in the gut from what appears be to an auto-immune reaction of some sort, thought to be triggered by reaction to gut bacteria or gut pathogens

its a complex business and treatment options for SIBO seem somewhat limited at present. rifaximin or herbs are often used with some success but relapse rates are high.

its an evolving picture - but Dr Mark Pimental is recognised as the world leader in investigating the root cause and developing treatments
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