Nausea – A significant number of people with IBS experience nausea, most often first thing in the morning. This symptom often accompanies constipation and may be relieved by having a bowel movement. Sometimes the nausea is severe enough to cause vomiting.
stomach pain or cramps – usually worse after eating and better after doing a poo. bloating – your tummy may feel uncomfortably full and swollen. diarrhoea – you may have watery poo and sometimes need to poo suddenly. constipation – you may strain when pooing and feel like you cannot empty your bowels fully.
Half of all people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) suffer from insomnia. Many reports being woken from sleep by abdominal pain, often several times during the night, and unsurprisingly they say they wake in the morning feeling tired and not rested.
Symptoms can become worse, often during times of stress or after eating certain foods. You may find some of the symptoms of IBS ease after going to the toilet and moving your bowels.
While IBS pain can be felt in multiple places around the body, it is most commonly experienced in the lower abdomen (an area of the body that stretches from the chest down to the pelvis). IBS pain can occur after eating and may be relieved or worsen after a bowel movement.
The chronic pain (pain lasting 6 months or longer) in IBS can be felt anywhere in the abdomen (belly), though is most often reported in the lower abdomen. It may be worsened soon after eating, and relieved or at times worsened after a bowel movement.
How long does an IBS flare-up last? An IBS flare-up duration is different for everyone. Most people's IBS symptoms will flare up for 2-4 days, after which your symptoms may lower in severity or disappear completely. Many people experience IBS in waves, in which symptoms may come and go over several days or weeks.
As well as the main symptoms described above, some people with IBS experience a number of other problems. These can include: a lack of energy (lethargy) feeling sick.
Patients with IBS may describe the abdominal discomfort in different ways, such as sharp pain, cramping, bloating, distention, fullness or even burning. The pain may be triggered by eating specific foods, following a meal, emotional stress, constipation or diarrhea. Other symptoms include: Mucus in stool.
This causes constipation and abdominal pain, which is most often on the left side and relieved by opening the bowels.
Your stomach may hurt when you wake up in the morning due to indigestion, IBS, IBD, constipation, acid reflux, GERD, a food allergy, pancreatitis, a peptic ulcer, period pain, gastritis, diverticulitis, or gallstones. Speak to a doctor if the pain doesn't go away or if it was severe enough to wake you up from sleep.
Your Stomach Hurts Often
In addition to stomach pain, you may notice your chest appearing bloated and full under your ribs. Your abdomen may feel very tender to the touch and may gurgle and make ample noise as your body struggles to work through the digestion of food intake.
There's no test for IBS, but you might need some tests to rule out other possible causes of your symptoms. The GP may arrange: a blood test to check for problems like coeliac disease. tests on a sample of your poo to check for infections and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
The reasons why IBS develops are not clear. It can occur after a bacterial infection or a parasitic infection (giardiasis) of the intestines. This is called postinfectious IBS. There may also be other triggers, including stress.
Can a colonoscopy detect IBS? No, a colonoscopy can't detect IBS, a condition also known as irritable bowel syndrome. You may wonder why a colonoscopy can't detect IBS when it can diagnose the IBD conditions we outlined earlier. IBS is different from IBD.