Awful digestive issues - could peri cause this?

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I am 49 and for the last 4+ years I feel I have been getting more and more peri symptoms which are rapidly stacking up (daily overwhelming anxiety, depression, mood swings, dry skin, very low libido etc).
GP says that as I’m having regular periods I can not be in peri. My periods have been so very heavy (due to thickened lining and recurring polyps) that I had become very anaemic and needed an iron infusion and a uterine ablation this year but GP still won’t put this down to peri.
24 years ago I was diagnosed with IBS. During this time it’s been up and down and symptoms quite predictable (ie worse during stress, before period and when eating certain foods etc), so I was able to control it and it didn’t have a hugely negative impact on my life.
However, since the age of 45 my symptoms have become awful and daily.
I suffer awful nausea (like morning sickness) especially mid cycle, indigestion and acid, terribly gurgling, unhappy sounding guts, pain, gas up and down, diarrhoea and loose stool and just a general daily ‘off’ feeling within my guts. And despite doing ALL the recommendations for controlling IBS which always helped before, nothing is having much of an impact these days.
I had a clear gastroscope, colonoscopy and ct scan 3 years ago and this year a clear pill camera endoscopy.
Nothing I do or try is helping me. I am at the absolute end of my rope with this. With the peri AND gut issues life seems bloody miserable right now. I don’t know what to eat half the time as food in general seems to flare my issues. Food is no longer a joy to me.
Could this be related to my hormones or has it just come at the same time? Is it common for issues like IBS to flare up during Perimenopause?
I am getting nowhere fast with either my GP, gastroenterologist and gynaecologist.

Could it be lactose intolerance? As people get older they don’t produce as much of the enzyme needed for digesting lactose.

SuperBlondie28 I totally feel your pain. If there was a digestive system transplant option I’d be first in the queue, mine has not been my friend for years. I just don’t trust the medical profession when it comes to bowel issues, they are very quick to label everything as IBS without looking at the bigger picture. I think mine is cause by something, I don’t buy the IBS label at all. My poor mil was told, for a whole year that she had IBS even though she had no previous gut issues. Turned out she had a neuro-endocrine bowel tumour!
Thanks WarriorN I will try some anti-histamines, you never know, I might get some relief 🤞
Flopisfatteningbingforchristmas I haven’t consumed dairy for 17 years as it makes me so much worse. Sadly though, despite not consuming these items I am still suffering.

I am having similar symptoms, had loads of tests, all negative. Now seeing a dietician who says it may be Small Intestine Bacterial Overload (SIBO). I had never heard of this but she has referred me for testing.

saveforthat I came across SIBO a few years ago and tick the box for most of the symptoms but no gastroenterologist would acknowledge it but now my gastroenterologist is coming round to the idea this could be a possibility for IBS sufferers and he has sent my the test to do at home. I’m doing it next week. Take a look at Dr Mark Pimentel on YouTube, he’s a lead specialist in SIBO in the States.
TBH, I hope I don’t have it though as it’s notorious difficult to treat. I’m on several SIBO FB groups.