alright here it goes.

on my moms side is small cases of the infamous IBS. now to help me the doctors have put me on 10mg of lexapro to try ad calm my nerves and my spastic colon. anyway lately i have been putting on weight im now up to 220 instead of my normal 190ish. I find it harder to breathe and now that i am on the medicine i feel backed up and just crappy in general. woohoo!!!! some times i feel like i have a crampsmall pressure in my sides right below my rib cage and sometimes i just feel real tired and wore out.

me:
sex-man
age-22
smoke-smoke up to pack a day
drink-drink occasionally and when i do its only a little bit havent been drunk in 4 years

medical history-nothing serious just minor stuff. had bronchitis once and allergic to penicillin

family history:
dad side- nothing except breast cancer on his mothers side which she died from
mom side- spastic colons and very minor depression

what the hell is wrong with me.

I am classified as 100% poverty. I have only Social Security, am 63, on Survivors. I have no Food Stamps. I have less than ,000 a year income.
The cost of living here is very high. SS payments are a little higher here and in CA than in other places due to the high cost of living. I did not know that when I moved here. The high cost of living eats this up. I hate taking charity from food banks and hate food stamps. I did not move here due the pfd or the ss increase. The PFD was a perk but not a motive..Mine was taken from me when I could not pay my bills and could not get work. It was taken when I visited a church near the lawyer who took my PFD. I donated fifty dollars to the church. I will never give another cent to that denomination and it did not imply anything. Although I explained to the court that I could not get work when I was told I would be able to do so, , then I got down sick, and not able to work, have not enough to live on to meet my expenses for a healthy life style (I borrow money often to buy groceries and pay my medical bills, etc. Forget seeing a doctor.) they took myPFD any way. It would amount to about 0 a month. I have nothing but Social Security. I get a small amt of the pfd, very small, very.

There is a reduced fee clinic; however after I pay the initial fee, the labs and the meds, xrays, etc., are extra. It saves nothing. They will only address one health issue at a time and I have many: Spastic colon, probably ulcers,stress,
gall bladder, gerd, eye injury, need glasses, numb toes, cannot perspire,
severe pain all below my waist , ad nauseum. I could not afford the meds I was prescribed lst time I went. I cannot get out of the apartment without someone stealing from me, comes in and steals, has a key. It makes me crazy. I must rush and rush to get back here, drives me insane.
Steal food, steal sentimental things, have been concentrating on things my daughter gave me. My things have sentimental value to me, all of them.
What I have left , what they did not steal from me outside of this state, rip off, get for nothing….much of which was expensive and which I paid hard earned cash from my paycheck and savings….the rest I had paid at least part of…they stole from me for little of nothing…criminals ran me out of my home competing for jobs.I have no intention of returning. I am not making out a will. Why? I have nothing. If I had something, I would get it now. I like money, things, I am the one with the cause for lawsuits. I also will not marry due to this.
I have been denied legal assistance my entire life when others would be filthy rich. I have no , absolutely no, intention of marrying. None. Not until I am a free person with choice in my life and there will be prenuptuals. Many.

I always ate a healthy diet, exercised, went to the gym, or biked and walked, sometimes all. I did smoke off and on due to breathing second hand smoke on the job causing me to want to smoke at home. I also had a lifetime membership in Weight Watchers, which helped me to be healthy, and
which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was the best program I ever used to be healthy.
I do not like being overweight at all, and it helps nothing whatsoever. Yet. I do not care. Why. I cannot go much of any where. I cannot visit churches and I am not wanted. I will not go to the one I was in. I cede them nothing but lawsuits. I eat because it fills my emptiness. I have music. I like the taste of food. When I have food , I eat. When I don’t, I don’t. Working kills me too. I am not depressed. I am a violated, abused battered female who has never had rights. They will persecute my husband and my son who were not the problem.Take my money for them, or vice versa. He is dead.
I worked for the Deparment of Family Services for six years. I was battered four times due to that by strangers.No more of that. Back to poverty. I worked in health care, went to college for years, honors. I worked in health care, then back to poverty due to my extreme old age, I guess. LOL. I am in poverty. I am ill. I am not going to try to work again. I prefer death. I cannot take any more of it. I never was a very tough person. I am a female.
Each toughening up I have had has left me with more severe insomnia and
bloody nightmares. It is not worth it. After mydivorce in a criminal community, I ended up in the direst poverty although I had graduated from college with honors. I was not allowed to work in my profession, my divorce was prearranged. I did not know that. It was all set up, waiting. I came out with nothing but a student loan and my daughter. My son enlisted to work. That was not, those things, were not our plans. This has caused me no amount
of problems in feelings of insecurity, fear, worry, which will not go away. Distrust of the system is a way of life. I am not a criminal, have no personality disorder of any sort. My major crime is being female, and very much alone but for my children.

I’ve been loosing weight dangerously for 9months and also have unbearable stomach pains,cramps, spasms etc. I have a spastic colon as welll. It is hard for me to eat . So I have several reasons why my doctors are considering steroids.What type of steroids might my doctor prescibe?

p.s. i really need an answer so if you’re dont know the answer or want to be negative please keep it to yourself thanks.
@ irish thanks so much
@ irish thanks so much

So I think I have IBS and I might request to have an abdominal x-ray to see if I have a spastic colon. Would a x-ray or any type of test show if I have a spastic colon (IBS)?

Long story short, I called my doctor today to find out my results from mondays tests, he tells me that my thyroid is low and that all my other results were fine. I asked him if one of the four prescriptions he gave would cause me to lose my appetite, I was having a hard time eating. He said and I quote ‘for someone who weighs 167, I wouldn’t think that was a bad thing’. I was so shocked I muttered something about wanting to lose weight. Then I ask him to fill a pain medication prescription I was given in the emergency room. He then goes into a long rant on junkies and how I was behaving just like a junkie, I stated that I wasn’t and that I just wanted to make sure that I wouldn’t run out during the holiday weekend. He starts going through my chart to see if I’ve ever tried to ‘score’ from them before and finds that I’ve never taken pain medications before. He then continues to rant at me and in a roundabout way calling me a junkie the whole time…

This guy was extremely rude the entire time I dealt with him, I don’t know what his problem is with me. It may have something to do with one of his nurses breaking confidentiality and telling one of my conditions to her daughter, who then spread it around. My mom tried to have her fired, but I didn’t want to have the woman lose her job. This doctor is the one who delivered me 24 years ago and I really don’t understand where all of this vicious rudeness is coming from…

I had just been informed that I have a cyst on my ovary and a spastic colon that is causing me great pain. I’m already depressed about all of the bills I’ve had to charge just to go to this jerk, he has the file right in front of him showing my history of antidepressants, and he starts attacking me unjustly?
What happened to though shall do no harm? This guy has really upset me…
Is there anything I can do? I’ve already contacted the BBB…Please help.

[Yes I've posted this question before but I think in the wrong category]

I have a fairly flat stomach, but every time after I eat, my stomach bloats up and gives me a small pot belly. Then it reduces again with time and when I’m hungry again my tummy is flat again. It doesn’t hurt or anything, it’s just bloody annoying.

[Background]
I have a spastic colon.
I’m not allergic to anything that I know of.
When I was younger I did a lot more exercise so I used to have a flat tight stomach. But these muscles aren’t tight anymore due to me being lazy.
This happens WHENEVER and WHATEVER I eat. Not just certain foods. Nor does it matter how much I eat, although the more I eat, the more bloated.

If someone could please explain the theory behind this, why does it happen. And then a possible solution?

Thanks

I know this is a disgusting topic so don’t respond if you get easily grossed out!

I’m a 24 year old, generally healthy young female. I was diagnosed with IBS/Spastic Colon about 5 years ago and have only had a few attacks over that amount of time after diet and lifestyle changes.

On the 4th of this month I was in the hospital for ulcerative colitis (way to spend the holiday huh?) and I was treated with Imodium AD and put on a liquid diet for about 12-24 hours. I felt fine shortly after and a few days later my bowel movments seemd normal..at first.

I was watching what I ate as always, lots of fiber, drinking plenty of water, etc.

The last week or two I’ve notice that whenever I make a bm my stools are some what loose (not diarrhea) or they’ll be more solid but are a greenish color and I can see bits of undigested food in them (like spinach) I haven’t eaten a lot of meat or anything that’s very fatty in the last week.

I don’t have health insurance and I don’t want to have to go back to the hospital.

I haven’t been vomiting and no other symptoms (except some gas and bloating).

Any ideas?

she’s a great girl but i cant handle her issues anymore. she creates her own problems and then she gets jealous of me. Ive had to listen to all of this lately:

"I hate myself I have red hair"
"Im stupid"
"I shoudn’t reproduce"
"I have a spastic colon and I cant go to bed before ive drank 2 litres of water. so thats why im tired today"

and then she started wanting to make me feel bad about myself. i tried to tell her shes fine and pretty but she never listens. now she is mean to me cuz i do well in tests. im not as pretty as her, but thats ok with me yet she cant accept my talents. i cant get through to her anymore.
i forgot to add she also gets panic attacks

Most people will never make fun of a person in a wheelchair but the same people will laugh at someone who stutters. Also most will never joke about cancer but the same people will laugh about jokes that is about people being in an institution. Mental illness is less acceptable than most physical illnesses. Also bad breath, body odor, and flatulence can be because of disease. This isn’t the only disease that can cause B.O but TMAU is the worst it can make you smell like garbage, feces, fish, or even marijuana smoke. Most of the time the odor can be helped with diet but sometimes that doesn’t help. Also there is bromhidrosis, hyperhidrosis, other conditons. Bad breath can be caused by TMAU, gum disease, etc. Most of the time people never know what is causing the breath problems. Flatulence can be caused by IBD, IBS, spastic colon,etc. Go to www.youtube.com/edwardianbeauty.
If this sounds like a rant I apologize but I am just saying that people are hypocritical because all disabilities should be accepted no matter what they are. People didn’t asked to be the way they are so why make fun of them?

I ask alot of questions on here, but I am trying to figure out whats going on with me. My right side always bothers me, yet it is nothing that causes me to double over. But a little more than half way up my right side about 4 in. below under arm I get a more constant pain, it does really hurt, but it feels like a constant pressure, it has been goin on for several several months, I have had liver, pancreas, kidneys, and gall bladder checked they are all normal. Sometimes it kinda feels like a flutter I guess, but Like I said its directly on my side. Also, in same spot the feeling seems to go into my back and then I have a tingly sensation into shoulder blade (right one) and it goes up to shoulder. I have red ON bowel movements, not in it. I do know I have hemorroids. I was also told about 15 years ago that I have a spastic colon, so I guess that explains why I go to the restroom alot. I DON’T have any nausea, nor do I have any weight loss. I eat just fine, unless I go into a panic or anxiety attack and then I lose my appetite. I have had two rounds of bloodwork in 9 months and they have all been good. Also had an hpylori and it was fine. Now I have 3 kids, they are all VERY busy, 9,8,4. Husband works but I try to do most everything around house to compensate for not working,. I have heartburn and it feels like my chest just wants to explode. I have had 3 ekgs done in 1 year and a half and also normal. I guess my fear is, Is that whatevers going on with me, is going to be unfixable and that is where my anxiety comes from. Please anyone if you can help, it would be appreciated. Whats going on with me.
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I am 32. and also all paps have been normal also.
Have lots of Lower back pain. Like crampy feeling.

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