Let me start by saying that I know that something is wrong with my stomach/digestive system but I haven't quite figured out what yet.
My story started a bit over 2 years ago in my early 20s. Prior to the start of my issues, I would say that I was normal and I was also a lover of the spiciest of foods/sauces. I had prepared food for myself using an excessive amount of hot sauce that was rated at over 1 mil scoville units. Obviously I knew that eating extremely hot food usually results in some form of pain even for a perfectly healthy person. However, that's when everything changed for me. A bit later that evening my stomach started to hurt really bad and I felt a sudden urgency to go to the washroom so I tried to go but I was constipated and didn't go at all. Thus began one of the worst weeks of my life. The details are fuzzy now but I was pretty constipated for that whole week and was in extreme pain. I remember buying ex lax at some point too. I did have a few bowel movements that week but they were mostly small and would never feel complete so I constantly felt like I needed to go. Even when I felt minor relief from pain, it would come right back if I ate anything.
I went to a walk in clinic a few times, got 2 - 3 different tests done. I'm not sure what the doctor was testing for but all the tests came back fine. I just came to the conclusion that I probably just had some temporary infection.
I was dead wrong. The extremity of that first week eventually passed but over the next few weeks I determined that my digestive system was not functioning as it was before. My stool also started varying in appearance each day. However, I was not satisfied with the results of my clinic visits and I was also embarassed about it so I decided to just deal with it and did not go back to see a doctor.
The best way I can describe my symptoms for the first while would be: never feeling like a bowel movement was complete, therefore visiting the toilet more often, constipation, sometimes diaherra, and sensitivity to certain foods.
The symptoms eventually started progressing. I would try to eat a salad for lunch or a high fibre bar for breakfast and both of these would cause excessive painful gas. I brushed it off to being sensitive to fibre so I just stopped eating high fibre foods before or during working hours. Maybe a few months after this, it started happening no matter what I ate so I stopped eating during work. This worked for a while but now it still happens sometimes even when I don't eat lunch.
So where am I now? Pretty much all of the symptoms I listed above. I sometimes have 3 small bowel movements in the morning before I even leave for work. This is because I will go until nothing comes out anymore but then maybe 10 - 20 mins later my stomach hurts again like I need to go and then a bit more comes out.
I've gotten to a point where I feel that my quality of life is a fraction of what it was 2 years ago so I decided to try and start going to a doctor again recently but am back at square one. I've got a few tests I need to go get done before I can go any further.
This is a pretty brief snapshot of my story and I probably missed a lot of things. Based on this though, does it seem more like crohns or IBS?
My story started a bit over 2 years ago in my early 20s. Prior to the start of my issues, I would say that I was normal and I was also a lover of the spiciest of foods/sauces. I had prepared food for myself using an excessive amount of hot sauce that was rated at over 1 mil scoville units. Obviously I knew that eating extremely hot food usually results in some form of pain even for a perfectly healthy person. However, that's when everything changed for me. A bit later that evening my stomach started to hurt really bad and I felt a sudden urgency to go to the washroom so I tried to go but I was constipated and didn't go at all. Thus began one of the worst weeks of my life. The details are fuzzy now but I was pretty constipated for that whole week and was in extreme pain. I remember buying ex lax at some point too. I did have a few bowel movements that week but they were mostly small and would never feel complete so I constantly felt like I needed to go. Even when I felt minor relief from pain, it would come right back if I ate anything.
I went to a walk in clinic a few times, got 2 - 3 different tests done. I'm not sure what the doctor was testing for but all the tests came back fine. I just came to the conclusion that I probably just had some temporary infection.
I was dead wrong. The extremity of that first week eventually passed but over the next few weeks I determined that my digestive system was not functioning as it was before. My stool also started varying in appearance each day. However, I was not satisfied with the results of my clinic visits and I was also embarassed about it so I decided to just deal with it and did not go back to see a doctor.
The best way I can describe my symptoms for the first while would be: never feeling like a bowel movement was complete, therefore visiting the toilet more often, constipation, sometimes diaherra, and sensitivity to certain foods.
The symptoms eventually started progressing. I would try to eat a salad for lunch or a high fibre bar for breakfast and both of these would cause excessive painful gas. I brushed it off to being sensitive to fibre so I just stopped eating high fibre foods before or during working hours. Maybe a few months after this, it started happening no matter what I ate so I stopped eating during work. This worked for a while but now it still happens sometimes even when I don't eat lunch.
So where am I now? Pretty much all of the symptoms I listed above. I sometimes have 3 small bowel movements in the morning before I even leave for work. This is because I will go until nothing comes out anymore but then maybe 10 - 20 mins later my stomach hurts again like I need to go and then a bit more comes out.
I've gotten to a point where I feel that my quality of life is a fraction of what it was 2 years ago so I decided to try and start going to a doctor again recently but am back at square one. I've got a few tests I need to go get done before I can go any further.
This is a pretty brief snapshot of my story and I probably missed a lot of things. Based on this though, does it seem more like crohns or IBS?