Extreme IBS?

I've been having very bad IBS for months now. I haven't been able to leave my house at all, besides school which is nearly unbearable since it started. My friends are starting to get mad because I never go out with them, and I am too embarrassed to tell them I have IBS.

Since summer of 2010, this has been happening. It just appeared out of the blue too, I never had these problems before, but the day we left for Myrtle Beach I started to get them. They were actually so bad on my vacation that if I had a chance to lay down, I would just lay down for hours in the fetal position in pain.

Now, I have alternating diareha and constipation, extreme stomach cramping (especially in the morning), nausea, and gas. I've also started to notice this smell. I don't know what it is..it kind of smells like rotting flesh. On really bad days, I can smell it, and if I ask someone to smell my stomach (weird, I know) they smell it too. :/

My doctor put me on stomach acid medication. Didn't help. She put me on anti-spasm medication (IC Dicyclomine) which had no help at all.

I kept a food diary from November to now. There was nothing linking food to my episodes at all according to my doctor who looked at it.

I don't know what to do anymore. ;_; The pain was so bad today from first period to third period that I couldn't do any work at all. I just sat there with my hands balled up, squeezing them just so I wouldn't make a grunt or some other sound. I had to take 3 anti-diarehal pills just so I could go through school X_X (The normal dose is 2, which no longer does anything for me.)

Help!

 

I don't think it's Coeliac disease for the reason that half the symptoms don't match up. I actually have trouble not gaining weight (I have an extremely slow metabolism) and I have been tested for anemia.

I purposely avoided and reintroduced gluten, dairy, sugars, excess salt, peanuts, multiple different fruits and vegetables, sorbitol (used in sugar free gum), and so on. Nothing helped.

 

Yes.

 

No, but they (I have a specialist and a general practitioner on my case together) ordered a small bowl follow-through, which involved me drinking a barium mixture of some sort and get x-rays done as it goes through my body.

Everything was normal according to that. And it made me sick for the following week. X_X

 

Sorry for the double post, but I really would like help with this. I missed school yet again today (4th time in the past 6 days, luckily, my classes are easy this year) because the symptoms are so bad right now. I had to call my dad, because my mom forbade me to miss any more school.

I was reading this pamphlet my doctor gave me regarding IBS and it says:

I've been losing weight. I am not exercising. I am on a diet, but it's not really that good of one. I still drink pop, I still eat things like flaming hot cheetos from time to time, I just don't do it as much. I stopped doing it as much since October, and I have been consistently losing weight. Shouldn't I have stalemated right now?

Is it possible that this isn't IBS?

Is it also possible that this is just depression? I know depression can cause IBS (or IBS-like symtpoms.) Lately, it's been happening only when I go to school and going away when I get home. I don't know why. I actually enjoy school, I feel no anxiety at all. Well, the only anxiety I feel is on Sunday night I think "Well, tomorrows going to be hell" because I normally don't have symptoms on the weekend. But..this is the only thing that makes me think depression. I don't think about death a lot..or anything that would normally make someone clinically depressed except for when..like..I get in a fight with a close friend. But I normally don't think about death even then. @_@ I rarely even think about death..

But lately I have been having symptoms at home and on the weekends. It's getting progressively worse. This weekend I was nauseous a lot. Right now, even though I am home, I feel my stomach cringing for no reason, and I am a little nauseous.

 

This morning I kept puking up water with red liquid in it. I don't know if it was blood. I can't remember what I ate, last night I know I ate alfredo pasta..but Sunday night I had meatloaf? Could that have possibly stayed in my stomach long enough to make me puke red this morning?

I told my mom about the red liquid in my puke. She just got mad at me. She got even more mad and refused to give me the number or email of my doctor. :/

 

Um..I think what I have is contagious?

Every time I go to my dads I get everyone sick, and all my friends have had what I have for the past two weeks.

Is it possible that I just have the stomach flu that won't go away? :/

I thought it was a coincidence, but this isn't the first time this has happened.

 

I don't remember posting this thread lol

I've tried to find contact details, but when I click my doctor's name on the website it just goes to a page that doesn't exist. D:

My friends have had similar symptoms, but theirs went away. Mine hasn't. So it probably is a coincidence.

It looked like blood. It was just mixed in with all the rest of the vomit.

My dad can't do anything. My mom has to take me since it's my step-dad's insurance.

Yes, two of them actually. Came back normal.

They put me on anti-stomach spasm medicine. Didn't work. :|

 

My mom wants her to make them, since she has to pay for them. D:

Can't wait until I get my own benefits </3

 

So this is kind of related, since it fits into this..

I've been constipated for about..10 days. How do I undo this?