Stomach issues for 2 months and then just stopped? (cramping, physician, cancer)
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One day I had a few bathroom emergencies (diarrhea). I didn’t think anything of it because I get that from time to time but it usually only lasts a day at the most. After a few days it wouldn’t go away....every morning I would cramp up and have diarrhea multiple times....sometime in the afternoon as well. Not much a night though. Foul gas as well. I finally made my appt for a full check up and all of a sudden after 2 months of cramping and constant diarrhea or close to it, it cleared up. Dr said it could be IBS but for 2 month straight? Only other thing I could think of was a parasite but does that go away without antibiotics? Food wise the only thing I cut out was Doritos (which was my favorite junk food snack). It never upset my stomach before but I noticed it had in recent months).
Do you drink a lot of caffeinated drinks? Too much caffeine does the same thing to me that you're describing. Also, the Doritos might have a spice that's flaring up the diarreah. I'm thinking pepper mostly. Cayenne really trips me up.
IBS is totally unpredictable, at least in my case. No rhyme or reason to it. Not tied to any foods or drink. I just never know. Comes on suddenly, makes me very ill, I rush to take a little blue pill and I lay down. Just need to be near a bathroom if I am out and about. You cannot logically plan for the attack. Good luck to you.
Going out on a limb here....Is it possible your water company made some adjustments: Water treatment, flouride, switched pipes, switched water sources, different filtering, some sort of temporarily anomaly with their equipment?
Other environmental factors? Some weird thing with HVAC, filter, dust, chemicals, paint, ....something that would throw your stomach out of whack temporarily?
This sounds a bit "out there" for me to suggest or ask, but given this query and others that you've posted here on CD forums regarding health and wellness, I feel that I should ask if you have had genetic testing done for the BCRA 1 and 2 genes? A lot of your vague symptoms that you've mentioned line up with the signs of ovarian cancer that are often missed (and sometimes dismissed) by physicians.
You're most likely fine, but given your ancestry (you revealed that you're Jewish in another thread and I'm assuming that you're not Sephardic, but a Jewish woman of Ashkenazi descent are many other American Jews. This "ups" your risk of a BCRA genetic mutation in relation to the general population), it might behoove you to make a list of all of your symptoms (bowel movement changes, bloating, etc) and push for a transvaginal ultrasound as well as genetic testing from you gynecologist even if it's only to rule out ovarian cancer and to give you some peace of mind.
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