Posting in the hope someone can help!
recently I’ve had some weird symptoms- the main one being I keep waking up during the night with stomach pain and diarrhoea. It’s a mixture of nausea, cramps and at times severe pain in my lower abdomen and then awful diarrhoea. The pain is so severe it wakes me up from sleeping and sometimes I’ll even be aware of the pain in my dreams directly before I wake up. It’s really awful. It started a few months ago, happens a few times a week and it doesn’t matter when I last ate- eg yesterday I hadn’t eaten since 5pm and I still woke up with the pain at 3am anyway.
I’ve previously had ibs and had diarrhoea and cramps from that but that was years ago and I’ve not had issues in years and this feels very different- when I had IBS it wasn’t as painful as this, it was more of a sickness cramp rather than painful and certainly not enough to regularly wake me from sleeping like it is now. I only ever got diarrhoea during the day and it was limited to when I ate certain foods and I’d be unwell directly afterwards, whereas this is during the night when I’m sleeping and isn’t triggered by foods.
does anyone know, is this likely just IBS again? Is it normal to be woken by it?
I just have this gut instinct something isn’t right in my body but I don’t know what. I’m mid 20s so I know it’s unlikely anything else is wrong but this pain is horrendous- today I was up from 3-6am rolling about in agony with it, paracetamol didn’t help, I had diarrhoea 8 times then eventually it passed. The pain was so awful it woke up me up. Problem is I can’t get seen at gastro because they rejected the referral on the basis of ‘it’s just IBS’ which was checked 4 years ago but it just feels different and I didn’t think IBS could be bad enough to wake you up