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Usually happens in the afternoon, sometimes in evening after tea. Bloating, discomfort and the most DISGUSTING wind. Think gasworks with sulphur. Can't seem to link it to any food like dairy. I go through phases with it.

I has symptoms like that, diagnosed with ibs after bloods ruled out anything else. I know you're adverse to medics attention but you should get it checked out rie. I find activia helps my symptoms. I did an elimination diet and found wheat caused the most trouble.

Is it more prominent week before & during your period?

Ps MSB uses the Big bang joke that my gas could be weaponised!

Activia yoghurt?

Shit I really don't want IBS (forgive me Faithy, I know no one does) My mum suffered with it for years :(:(:(.

Doesn't seem to be linked with period particularly, Sunny. Like I said, it can be fine for months and then it can last a couple of weeks and then go again.

Noone wants ibs! It's a crap ha ha diagnosis but it's better than coeliac etc.

Yes activia yoghurt. One a day helps immensely.

I know I know I know. That's why I said forgive me. I know no one wants it. All I meant was I watched my mum struggle with it for years and it wrecked her life :(

Is coeliac to do with wheat?

Activia did nothing for my IBS. Scientist DS says you're just as well off eating a natural yogurt as it had same bacteria.

The Needles sorted my IBS out. And cutting out supermarket minced beef. Nettle tea helps me. So do buscapan pills if it's really bad.

What, like live yoghurt?

I suppose it's different for everyone. I tried mint tea but it made me puke with actual disgust.

I think it's about finding your triggers. And trying to avoid them. I kept a food diary for a couple of months (dull but useful).

Does a food diary mean quantities, times, ingredients and everything?

No, I just kept a note of what I ate & if I made it main ingredients e.g. Chilli - mince, kidney beans, tinned tomatoes, chilli blah blah blah

Sometimes my stomach makes noises like a motorbike

Yes, mine too, especially when I lie down.

:( My mum had it so bad she needed a special key for disabled toilets, rather than pushing past people yelling "Let me in, let me in!" She had other worse probs too. It was awful. We couldn't go anywhere or do anything with her.

Yes and sometimes I can actually see my bowel spasming! I agree it's avoiding what sets you off and finding what helps.
I find Andrews salts help with up top trapped wind. Avoiding sugary, processed crap helps with the gas. Avoiding wheat stops the squits loose stools. But that's just me.
I have never tried the needles. I wonder if it would help with my ibs/eczema/anxiety/hayfever?

It's horrific when it's like that. Your poor mum.

Too much fibre gets me, can't eat Bran Flakes 2 days running or the world falls out my bottom

Poor Faithy - you're a walking allergy :(

Andrew's salts - are they those things you get in a tin? I don't have the squits really, just the bloating.

Must be like Aliens to see your bowel spasming.

Faith I am a big advocate of The Needles. I had eczema, IBS & hay fever. Sorted all of them out. Classic symptoms of weak kidney energy apparently.

rie you have to remember that even if you were diagnosed with ibs it wouldn't necessarily mean you'd end up like your Mum. It would be based on the symptoms you have now.
I'm generally not too bad...sometimes it puts me to bed because I'm more comfortable lying down while the spasms pass. My wheat bag helps with those too.
Buscopan is no good.for me, it gives me a dreadful dry mouth but mebeverine (colofac) helps me.

My hot water bottle is great.

I might look into this Needles shiz.

Yes I'm super allergic! Very sensitive to washing powders and shower gels the wrong shower gel causes my fanjo to burn. Words cannot describe how awful that is
Maybe I should seek out the needles. They do it at my local uni. Right now my hands are raw, cracked, bleeding and red :(

Oh dear Back in May I got awful thrush. I've never had it in my life and I never want it again. I was advised to use simple soap on the foof and I haven't used anything else since. The thought of putting anything perfumed or coloured on the lady area now makes me wince.

Bubbling. That's what it's doing. Bubbling.

I know the bubbling feeling our Rie. Horrid.

Sometimes sleep is the Best Thing.