Diagnosis of Your Irritable Bowel Syndrome
By melia38 | March 12, 2010
If you are, or you suspect you are suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome, it’s a really good idea to go see your doctor. IBS is usually diagnosed after consideration of your complete medical history, that includes a careful description of all the symptoms and a physical exam.
Your doctor will ask your about your symptoms so he can discover what seems to trigger the discomfort, when symptoms begin and what types of foodstuffs and activities seem to cause more discomfort and which ones make it reduce or cause it to stop. He or she may additionally ask you regarding your bowel movements, with inquiries about how frequently you open your bowels and exactly what your feces look like.
IBS does not have a diagnostic method, but a selection of lab tests could be done so that you can eliminate other potential problems. Taking a fecal sample for testing and performing a complete blood count panel are just two of the possible labs that may be performed. Frequently, a general practitioner will perform a sigmoidoscopy, or colonoscopy, which allows him to look inside the colon.
Your doctor puts an endoscope into your colon via your behind. The endoscopes imaging software transfers pictures of your insides to a screen so your physician can look at them clearly.
A tissue sample may be taken during the procedure. The sample is removed from the colon wall and reviewed by the lab. A biopsy will eliminate the presence of other conditions like colon cancer.
Your doctor might determine that you have IBS having reviewed your stated issues, frequency of stomach discomfort over the last 12 months, the beginning and cessation of discomfort relative to bowel movements as well as how often your bowels move and whether your bowel has changed, if examining your colon comes back with no helpful information.
Many doctors refer to a list of specific symptoms that must be present to make a diagnosis of IBS.
Symptoms include things like abdominal pain or discomfort for a minimum of 12 weeks out of the previous 12 months. The weeks of pain may be spread out or sporadic.
Stomach discomfort will have 2 of three of the proceeding indicators:
1.Pain disappears once you vacate your bowels.
2.When it starts, there is a change in how often you have a bowel movement.
3.Consistency or look of bowel movement is altered when pain begins.
Other specific attributes must also be visible, like:
How often the bowel movements occur is altered
a change in appearance of bowel movements
feelings of uncontrollable urgency to have a bowel movement
difficulty or inability to pass stool
mucus in bowel movementabdominal puffiness
High temperature, loss of weight, bleeding and ongoing strong discomfort are not indications of IBS but may be signs of other issues such as inflamed bowels or, sometimes, cancer.
If you show characteristic IBS symptoms and are age under fifty, then you may not need any further tests.
If you are showing unexplained weight loss or blood in your stools, some further tests might be required.
If bowel problems are in your family history, if you’re presenting symptoms of diarrhea-specific IBS or if you are more than 50 years old and this is the first time you are experiencing indications of IBS, you may be admitted to the hospital for additional testing. Your doctor would admit you because these symptoms are indicators of serious colon-related conditions such as colon cancer.
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Finding the G-Spot
By melia38 | March 12, 2010
The G-spot is a highly erogenous zone inside the vagina. It is located behind the pubic bone within the front wall of the vagina, about two to three inches deep. When your lover is sexually-excited it becomes more pronounced. Hence it is essential that your lover is well aroused before attempting to find her G-spot.
Have your lover lie down on her back with her legs apart. Ensure that your fingernails are cut short and your hands are clean. With palm facing upwards push your middle finger into your lover’s vagina up to the first knuckle, moving your finger in small circles. Needless to say, your lover’s vagina should be well lubricated. Read the rest of this entry »
Originally posted 2007-05-08 11:16:05.
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What Other Health Conditions are Associated with the Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
By meliavis | March 11, 2010
As is the case in most syndromes, the irritable bowel syndrome is built up of different signs and symptoms. IBS has not been shown to lead to serious disease, like cancer. Over time, other terminologies have also been developed for IBS, for example colitis, mucous colitis, spastic colon, or spastic bowel. However, no link has been established between IBS and inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.
When a patient has extremely severe symptoms and it affects their way of life, you can just contemplate that they are likely to feel some stress about that, and a lot of patients will say, “Well, I did not truly have depression, or my mood was not actually bad before, it’s just that I really feel so impaired in my life.” Most IBS patients also suffer from low self esteem which further affects their day-to-day living.
Irritable bowel syndrome can also be complicated by non-gastrointestinal symptoms, taking place simultaneously or accelerated due to IBS. Fatigue is one of the usual manifestations of irritable bowel syndrome. Difficulty in sleeping is another. What makes it worse is that when patients do not sleep well, the body is unable to recharge and heal itself, thus leading to worse bowel symptoms the following day. There have been studies that attest to this.
Irritable bowel syndrome is also recognized to present itself with other conditions, especially when the symptoms exist outside of the gastrointestinal tract. One example is fibromyalgia, a condition indicated by persistent pain of the muscles. With most patients, the chronic muscle pain, which is obviously external of the GI tract, is actually developed due to IBS. Those suffering from IBS have a tendency to develop other symptoms related to it, and the more serious the condition of the patient, the higher the chances that he will acquire other non gastro-intestinal symptoms, including fibromyalgia, and other treatable medical conditions as migraine headaches.
Irritable bowel syndrome can also be highly associated with leaky gut syndrome and gut dysbiosis, in the form of small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). Other than that, IBS may also be linked to various environmental illnesses. Some other medical findings show that those clinically determined to have chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Gulf war syndrome (GWS), and autism also experience IBS. The most recent studies are now starting to identify the link between IBS and other chronic illnesses, and are looking into the possible causes for this connection.
One of the well studied links has been involvement of SIBO in these types of illnesses, especially CFS and fibromyalgia. While it is known that SIBO is common among IBS patients, recent studies have also shown that the same holds true for those with CFS and fibromyalgia. Research indicates that SIBO I present in those suffering from either IBS or fibromyalgia.
Interestingly, they found that SIBO appeared to be more severe in fibromyalgia patients and the severity of the SIBO in individual patients correlated strongly with the intensity of the pain they suffered. Based on this finding, would it be possible to make speculations that if an IBS patient experienced severe SIBO he would also be developing fibromyalgic pain? More studies would have to be done to come up with conclusive answers.
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