IBS or not...???
Male @ age 66 here.
Since I passed age 50 I always had a slight abdominal pain and cramping with gas and bloating.
This happened when I quit smoking and started to put on a lot of weight around those years.
6' and 180lb guy turned into 245 lbs now.
A little over a month ago I tried carnivore diet for a week. Right around that time I began to have a little extra cramping, bloating, gas, diarrhea with significantly increased abdominal pain right after I finish a meal.
This was happening even after I follow fodmap diet or even how little food I eat.
After a little meal, I bloated and I hear loud noises as if water rushing inside my body from section to section. Most of the times after these symptoms I feel to go to the bathroom with urgency followed with either diarrhea or very loose bowel movement.
Then feeling of relaxation comes over for a little while until I have my next meal. I sleep ok about 7-8 hrs a night.
Since almost a month for the first time in my life I never had a solid bowel movement.
When I told about these to my Kaiser Permanente doctor, his opinion was "it seems carnivore diet doesn't agree with you"...
But that was 3,5 weeks ago and I don't think 1 week of carnivore diet would mess me up so much that I'll have a month long IBS-D symptoms.
I just emailed him again and basically begged for seen by a gastroenterologist.
Is anybody experienced similar issues as their IBS-D starting such suddenly at an age like mine.
Gas, bloating, abdominal cramping, nausea, diarrhea, and 3-4 times a day loose bowel movements with suddenly oncoming urgency?
I wonder if I always had IBS and for some reason if it got worse or if this is something different?
Just wanted to hear your thoughts and experiences.
Stay well...
I just wanted to hop in here and say that if your gut biome got significantly thrown out of whack due to a diet, it can definitely take more than a month or two to get back into equilibrium and that's assuming you are even trying to fix it with gut supplements and probiotics, etc. (under the care of a physician, of course). Other than that, though, unfortunately it is just near impossible to tell if it could be IBS over the internet. I know that isn't the answer you were looking for, but it is unfortunately the truth. IBS is a diagnosis that has no definitive test so that means it can only be diagnosed by ruling out other things and then using the experience and close observations from the physician, who also considers your medical history and recent triggers. That, combined with some blood markers that may or may not appear, usually form their diagnosis of IBS. I think the best place for you to start is to book an appointment with a rheumatologist who can give you the benefit of their years of working with IBS patients and that, at the very least, will get you one step closer to figuring out what is going on. Let us know what happens and if there's anything else we can do to help in the meantime. Keep on keepin' on, DPM
